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  • Going To Bend
    Going To Bend
    by Diane Hammond
    Hardcover: Jan 2004
    Paperback: Mar 2005
     
    An evocative debut novel about life in a small town and of two women testing their own limits. A moving and deftly told portrait of the hard-scrabble life.
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  • Gold
    Gold
    by Chris Cleave
    Hardcover: Jul 2012
    Paperback: Apr 2013
     
    Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption.
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  • Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl : Stories
    by Yiyun Li
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: Sep 2010
     
    In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.
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  • A Golden Age
    A Golden Age
    by Tahmima Anam
    Hardcover: Jan 2008
    Paperback: Jan 2009
     
    Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution, of hope, faith and unexpected heroism. The first volume in a planned trilogy.
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  • The Golden Gate
    The Golden Gate : A Novel
    by Amy Chua
    Hardcover: Sep 2023
    Paperback: Aug 2024
     
    Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.
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  • Golden Hill
    Golden Hill : A Novel of Old New York
    by Francis Spufford
    Hardcover: Jun 2017
    Paperback: Feb 2018
     
    Winner of the 2017 Costa First Novel Award.

    The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan, thirty years before the American ...
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  • The Golden House
    The Golden House : A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
    Hardcover: Sep 2017
    Paperback: Jun 2018
     
    A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities
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  • The Golden Mean
    The Golden Mean
    by Annabel Lyon
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: Sep 2011
     
    A startlingly original first novel by "this generation's answer to Alice Munro" (The Vancouver Sun) - a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young ...
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