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Guns of the South

by Harry Turtledove

Published: 1997-05-27

Paperback: 528 pages

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Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. The battle of Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle; its ra...

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

Published: 1999-04-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."?Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societie...

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

Published: 2005-07-11

Hardcover: 528 pages

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With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller—over 1.5 million copies sold—is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents an...

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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

by Stephen King

Published: 2003-06-24

Paperback: 272 pages

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Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland...

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The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel)

by Peter David, Stephen King, Robin Furth

Published: 2007-11-21

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

by Kristen Johnston

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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?It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I could somehow stop, I?d still be screwed, because there's no way I?d ever be able to figure out how to open those insane, cocaine-designed doors.? The two-time Emmy Award-winni...

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The Guy Not Taken: Stories

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2007-06-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's...

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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men

by Michael Kimmel

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear. Today, growing up has become more complex and confusing, as young men drift casually through college and beyond?hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood,...

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The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

by Belinda Rathbone

Published: 2007-04-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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"Rathbone nails down a little bit of the Scottish soul in all its stark splendor."—New York Times Book ReviewThis memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally sad, it is the author's account...

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The Gypsy In My Soul

Paperback: 276 pages

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Poland, 1943-Heinrich Himmler orders the mass deportation of Gypsies to concentration camps. Sasha Karmazin, a Gypsy woman living in Warsaw, Poland, is torn from her family by the Gestapo and must leave behind her Polish husband, Henryk, and her two teenage sons, Karl and Dimitri. After being transported...