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The God of War: The Letters of Henry Wylie

by Robert S. Chambers

Experience the reality of the Civil War. Feel the desperation and chaos of battle, suffer the hardships of inclement weather and deprivation, share the camaraderie that only war can forge. And ride with Nathan Bedford Forrest as he blazes a trail through America military history.

The Glitter Dome

by Joseph Wambaugh

The effects of the Hollywood scene on 4 sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and grime, the hustle and horror of Los Angeles.

The Glendower Legacy

by Thomas Gifford

A 200-year-old document fell into a young student's hands. It soon cost him his life, inflamed a struggle between the CIA and the KGB, and made 2 people the targets of both sides.

The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse Clara Winston Richard Winston

This novel is set in the future, looking back at the life history of Joseph Knecht, Magister Ludi, who plays the Glass Bead Game.

The Girlfriend (Point Horror Series)

by R. L. Stine

Scotty has the perfect girlfriend. Lora is smart, beautiful, and popular. When Lora goes out of town, Scotty has an unforgettable secret weekend with Shannon, a girl he just met. On Monday, Scotty wants to go back to Lora, but Shannon plans to keep Scotty any way she can -- and some ways are pretty horrible. When she was good, she was very very good. But when she was bad, she was murder ...

The Girl Who Loved the Night

by John Wallner

A children's book about a girl with a beautiful singing voice who loved the moon and her nightingale.

The Gift of the Deer

by Helen Hoover

On Christmas Eve an emaciated deer stumbled into Helen Hoover's yard in remote northern Minnesota. She nursed the buck back to health, embarking on a four year journey where she and her artist husband shared their lives with a heard of wild deer in a remote wilderness setting.

The Gift of Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever. From the Paperback edition.

The Giant King

by Kathleen T. Pelley

For young readers, in Scotland, a young wood carver suggests a way to handle a giant who is terrorizing a far-off town.

The Ghost Comes Calling

by Betty Ren Wright

"When Chad Weldon stepped off the bus, he knew right away that something had happened in Bristol while he was away. For one thing, his father couldn't stop smiling. For another, his great-aunt Elsa couldn't stop frowning. The smiles and frowns continued all the way home in the pickup, while Aunt Elsa asked a million questions about what was new at his cousin's house, and Chad's father chuckled at the answers. Scrunched between the grown-ups, Chad tried to figure out what was going on. He noticed that they were talking only to him, not to each other. That meant the thing that had happened while he was gone was pretty serious. His dad and Aunt Elsa argued a lot, but they hardly ever stopped talking to each other. The silence between them was scary. That evening Aunt Elsa fixed chicken drumsticks and mashed potatoes, Chad's favorite dinner. It wasn't until they were through eating and the dishes were washed and they were sitting out on the front-porch steps that his father said, "Now, listen to this, boy. I've got a real surprise for you." ..." Chad could tell by the way Aunt Elsa sniffed

The Getaway Special

by Jerry Oltion

A card-carrying mad scientist, Allen Meisner develops a hyperdrive engine capable of taking anyone to the stars for just a few dollars.

The Germanic People: Their Origin, Expansion and Culture

by Francis Owen

This investigation of the Germanic people makes use of material from linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and history.

The Geneses of Civilizations, Part Two (A Study of History Volume #2)

by Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee writes: IN the first volume of A Study of History, I start by searching for a unit of historical study that is relatively self-contained and is therefore more or less intelligible in isolation from the rest of history. I was led into this quest by finding myself dissatisfied with the present-day habit of studying history in terms of national states. These seemed, and still seem, to me to be fragments of something larger, and I found this larger and more satisfying unit of study in a civilization. The history of the United States, for instance, or the history of Britain, is, as I see it, a fragment of the history of Western Christendom or the Western Christian World, and I believe I can put my finger on a number of other societies, living or extinct, that are of the same species. Examples of other living civilizations besides the Western Civilization are the Islamic and the Civilization of Eastern Asia, centring on China. Examples of extinct civilizations are the Greco-Roman and the Ancient Egyptian. This practice of dealing in civilizations instead of nations is taken for granted by orientalists, ancient-historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The carving-up of a civilization into pieces labelled 'nations' is, I believe, something peculiar to students of modern Western history, and, with them too, this present practice of theirs is only recent. Down to the beginning of the eighteenth century, the classic works of Western historians took for their field the whole history of Western Christendom or even the whole history of the World from the Creation to the Last Judgement. Other books in this series are available from Bookshare.

The Gathering

by Anne Enright

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him-something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.<P><P> Man Booker Prize winner

The Gate of Worlds

by Robert Silverberg

Dan Beauchamp, a young man from London, or as it's better known, New Istanbul, sails across the Atlantic to the land of opportunity, the Aztec Empire which stretches across the continent.

The Gate of Hell

by Alfred Coppel

Ross Ferrar...a veteran of the Korean War, a soldier by profession, is serving as a volunteer with an Israeli paratroop company. Sarai Steiner, once a terrified young refugee from Nazi Austria who fled to England, is now a lovely woman living in Israel. This is the story of Ross and Sarai, their struggle to avoid love, and then to grasp it in the midst of the conflict between Israel and Egypt. This is far more than the bittersweet and moving record of two decent human beings caught in an unconventional emotional cross-current. It is also a vibrant portrait of a new nation in an old land, and a saga of battle, new in its techniques, but ancient in its test of men and its cruel consorting with chance. Here is the exciting adventure and pulsating emotion. Projected against an authentic moment in history, it is grimly real and tenderly human.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

Only for those with a macabre sense of humor, a short poem of 26 lines, one for each letter of the alphabet.

The Garden of the Shaped (Volume 1 of The Shaper Exile)

by Sheila Finch

Banished to an uninhabited planet, a handful of genetic scientists prepare to live out eternity. Here, beyond the reach of their accusers, theory becomes reality. Experimenting with stolen human germ plasm, they shape mankind into races unlike anything Earth has ever seen: the whimsical Llani metamorphs, the inventive but rebellious Ganus, and the Rhodaru warriors with the truth sense. Once their great test has begun, the immortal geneticists agree never to interfere. But like the races they invent, the scientists are human. Still, nothing they do prepares the Llanis for the Ganu uprising 500 years later. Queen Sivell is young, but she possesses an unerring wisdom -- a trait rare in Llanis of any age. As she ascends to the throne, war has already begun. Sivell's own unique parentage and her newfound knowledge of her people's origins could bring peace to her world -- or death to her people!

The Gandalara Cycle: Volume 1

by Randall Garrett Vicki Ann Heydron

Comprising 3 novels - The Steel of Raithskar, The Glass of Dyskornis, and The Bronze of Eddarta

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

by Neil Strauss

The author, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, spent 2 years learning about and perfecting his 'game' - picking up women.

The Future of an Illusion

by Sigmund Freud James Strachey

In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud's best known and most emphatic psychoanalytic exploration of religion, is the culmination of a lifelong pattern of thinking.

The Fox Inheritance (Jenna Saga #2)

by Mary E. Pearson

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other - Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries. Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead. Everyone except Jenna Fox.

The Fox

by D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence's brilliant story of two women and the intruder who threatens their love.

The Fourth Floor Twins and the Silver Ghost Express

by David A. Adler

Two sets of twins catch a thief while tracking down a missing suitcase in a train station.

The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book

by Miguel Ruiz

The 4 Agreements: Be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, and always do your best.

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