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Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel

by Dennis Lehane

Published: 2010-09-07

Paperback: 464 pages

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The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. Its territory is defined by hard heads and even harder luck; its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Ken...

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Gone: A Novel

by Cathi Hanauer

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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Called “beautiful, complicated, and often funny” by O, The Oprah Magazine, “clear-eyed” by Vanity Fair, and “rich with relatable characters” by Kirkus Reviews, Cathi Hanauer’s stirring novel is about redefining, in middle age, one’s marriage, one’s career, and even one’...

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Gone: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware Novels)

by Jonathan Kellerman

Published: 2007-03-27

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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Gonville: A Memoir

by Peter Birkenhead

Published: 2010-03-02

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Gonville is the story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charismatic, mortifying, thoughtful, violent, generous, and cruel father. In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presen...

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Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License

by María Amparo Escandón

Published: 2005-04-19

Paperback: 304 pages

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Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words pr...

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A Good American

by Alex George

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 432 pages

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?A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” ?Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, a...

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A Good and Happy Child: A Novel

by Justin Evans

Published: 2007-05-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a fath...

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The Good Book: A Humanist Bible

by A. C. Grayling

Published: 2011-03-29

Hardcover: 608 pages

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Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from ...

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Good Christian Bitches

by Kim Gatlin

Published: 2009-02-12

Paperback: 288 pages

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For Heaven's sake...Never let God get in the way of a good story. Good Christian Bitches is the lighthearted tale of Amanda Vaughn, a recently divorced mother of two. To get a fresh start, she moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up. In an Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Desperate...

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The Good City and the Good Life

by Daniel Kemmis

Published: 1995-09-28

Hardcover: 226 pages

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The current mayor of Missoula, Montana, offers down-to-earth commentary on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility, as he uses personal experience to explore democracy as a human enterprise. By the author of Community and the Politics of Place.