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| The World According to Garp | John Irving | Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theatre. This was shortly after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and people were being tolerant of soldiers, because suddenly everyone was a soldier, but Jenny Fields was quite firm in her intolerance of the behavior of men in general and soldiers in particular. | Buy | |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater. | Buy | |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Judith Rossner | Gary Cooper White was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. | Buy | |
| De Bello Gallico | Julius Caesar | Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts. [Lat., Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.] | Buy | |
| The Aquitaine Progression | Robert Ludlum | Geneva. City of sunlight and bright reflections. Of billowing white sails on the lake--sturdy, irregular buildings above, their rippling images on the water below. Of myriad flowers surrounding blue-green pools of fountains--duets of exploding colors. Of small quaint bridges arching over the glassy surfaces of man-made ponds to tiny man-made islands, sanctuaries for lovers and friends and quiet negotiators. Reflections. | Buy | |
| Jacob Faithful | Captain Frederick Marryat | Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. It was in a floating sort of box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames, at low water, when I first smelt the mud. This lighter was manned (an expression amounting to bullism, if not construed KIND-ly) by my father, my mother, and your humble servant. My father had the sole charge - he was monarch of the deck: my mother, of course, was queen, and I was the heir-apparent. | Buy | |
| Death in Don Mills | Hugh Garner | George Bullay finished his softboiled egg and one slice of buttered wholewheat toast. | Buy | |
| It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade | George Fielding cultivated a small farm in Berkshire. | Buy | |
| Giles Goat-Boy | John Barth | George is my name; my deeds have been heard of in Tower Hall, and my childhood has been chronicled in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. | Buy | |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Walter van Tilburg Clark | Gil and I crossed the eastern divide about two by the sun. | Buy | |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Gil and I crossed the eastern divide about two by the sun. | Buy | |
| Where the Blue Begins | Christopher Morley | Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in that woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. | Buy | |
| The Spoilers | Rex Beach | Glenister gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships, then up at the crenelated mountains, black against the sky. He drank the cool air burdened with its taints of the sea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped within him. | Buy | |
| The Life of Timon of Athens | William Shakespeare | Good day, sir. | Buy | |
| Gordon Keith | Thomas Nelson Page | Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman. | Buy | |
| Titus Groan | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls. | Buy | |
| The Woman Next Door | Barbara Delinsky | Graham O'Leary shoveled dirt with a vengeance, pushing himself until his muscles ached, because he needed the exertion. He was filled with nervous energy that had no place to go. This was Tuesda. That made it D-day. Amanda would either get her period or miss it. He hoped desperately that she would miss it, and only in part from wanting a child. The other part had to do with their marriage. They were feeling the strain of failing to conceive. A wall was growing between them. They weren't close the way they used to be. He could feel that she was pulling away. | Buy | |
| City | Clifford Simak | Gramp Stevens sat in a lawn chair, watching the mower at work, feeling the warm, soft sunshine seep into his bones. | Buy | |
| The Reivers | William Faulkner | GRANDFATHER SAID: This is the kind of a man Boon Hogganbeck was. Hung on the wall, it could have been his epitaph, like a Bertillon chart or a police poster; any cop in north Mississippi would have arrested him out of any crowd after merely reading the date. | Buy | |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. | Buy | |
| The Good Soldier Schweik | Jaroslav Hasek | Great times call for great men. | Buy | |
| Boon Island | Kenneth Lewis Roberts | Greenwich, for all its faults, was a fascinating place, and I always left it with regret, especially at Trinity Term, to go up to Oxford. | Buy | |
| Lemons Never Lie | Richard Stark | Grofield put a nickel in the slot machine, pulled the lever, and watched a lemon, a lemon, and a lemon come up. | Buy | |
| Darwinia | Robert Charles Wilson | Guilford Law turned fourteen the night the world changed. | Buy | |
| Sleeping Murder | Agatha Christie | Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quayside. The docks and the custom sheds and all of England that she could see were gently waving up and down. And it was in that moment that she made her decision--the decision that was to lead to such very momentous events. | Buy |