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  • Galileo's Daughter
    Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
    by Dava Sobel
    Hardcover: Oct 1999
    Paperback: Oct 2000
     
    Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.
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  • Galore
    Galore : A Novel
    by Michael Crummey
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
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  • Gap Creek
    Gap Creek
    by Robert R. Morgan
    Hardcover: Jan 2000
    Paperback: Oct 2000
     
    Set in the last years of the nineteenth century. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek, in the Appalachian high country, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
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  • Garbage Land
    Garbage Land : On the Secret Trail of Trash
    by Elizabeth Royte
    Hardcover: Jul 2005
    Paperback: Aug 2006
     
    A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
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  • A Garden of Marvels
    A Garden of Marvels : How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
    by Ruth Kassinger
    Hardcover: Feb 2014
    Paperback: Mar 2015
     
    In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.
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  • The Garden of Small Beginnings
    The Garden of Small Beginnings
    by Abbi Waxman
    Paperback: May 2017
     
    Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss.
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  • The Gardens of Kyoto
    The Gardens of Kyoto : A Novel
    by Kate Walbert
    Hardcover: Apr 2001
    Paperback: Mar 2002
     
    Spins several parallel stories about the emotional damage done by war. Like the mysterious arrangements of intricate sand, rock, and gravel found in the Kyoto Gardens, the stories gracefully come together in a single, rich mosaic.
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  • The Gargoyle
    The Gargoyle
    by Andrew Davidson
    Hardcover: Aug 2008
    Paperback: Aug 2009
     
    An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
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