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The Giver (song)

"The Giver" is a 2025 country single by Chappell Roan, written with Dan Nigro and Paul Cartwright, released March 13, 2025 on Amusement/Island; it hit number 5 on the Hot 100 and topped Hot Country Songs.

The Giver Quartet

The Giver Quartet is a four-book dystopian series by Lois Lowry: The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal; the series was recast as a quartet when Son completed it.

The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree is a 1964 Shel Silverstein picture book, published by Harper & Row, about a tree that gives a boy her apples, branches, trunk, and stump. Rejected at first, it sold over 14.5 million copies and remains one of children's literature's most divisive books.

The Glades (TV series)

The Glades (originally titled Sugarloaf) is an American crime drama created by Clifton Campbell for A&E, 2010–2013: Matt Passmore's Chicago detective Jim Longworth works in fictional Palm Glade, Florida; 49 episodes, canceled on an unresolved cliffhanger.

The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel, Magister Ludi) is Hermann Hesse's final novel, published in Zurich in 1943 after being blocked in Nazi Germany; it won Hesse the 1946 Nobel Prize and depicts Josef Knecht, Master of a game synthesizing all knowledge in the scholarly province of Castalia.

The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls's 2005 Scribner memoir of a nomadic, impoverished childhood with alcoholic father Rex and artist mother Rose Mary, ending in escape to New York; a long-running NYT bestseller, over seven million copies sold, adapted as a 2017 film.

The Glass Castle (2017 film)

The Glass Castle (2017 film), directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from Jeannette Walls's 2005 memoir, stars Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts; Lionsgate released it August 11, 2017, grossing $17.2M with mixed reviews (RT 53%, Metacritic 56).

The Glass Dome

The Glass Dome (Glaskupan) is a 2025 Swedish Netflix six-episode limited crime series created by Camilla Läckberg, starring Léonie Vincent as criminologist Lejla, investigating a girl's disappearance in Granås, Dalarna, echoing her own childhood abduction; ended after one season.

The Glass Essay

"The Glass Essay" is a long poem by the Canadian poet Anne Carson, first published in 1994, that weaves a woman's grief over a lost love with a reading of Emily Brontë.

The Glass House (2001 film)

The Glass House (2001) is a Columbia Pictures psychological thriller directed by Daniel Sackheim, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, and Trevor Morgan, about orphans whose Malibu guardians covet their $4 million inheritance.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key (1942) is a Paramount film noir directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, and Veronica Lake, adapted from Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel; second adaptation after the 1935 George Raft version.

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams's 1944 memory play about the Wingfield family in St. Louis, premiering on Broadway in 1945 with Laurette Taylor and winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh that follows three families in Burma, India, and Malaya from the British invasion of Burma in 1885.

The Glasshouse, Gateshead

The Glasshouse, Gateshead (formerly Sage Gateshead) is a Foster + Partners-designed music venue and charity on the Tyne's south bank, opened in 2004, renamed from Sage in 2023, home of Royal Northern Sinfonia with a 1,700-seat main hall.

The Gleaners

The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is Jean-François Millet's 1857 oil painting of three peasant women gathering leftover wheat, shown at the 1857 Salon and held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 592).

The Glee Project

The Glee Project was an Oxygen reality competition (2011–2012, two seasons) casting young performers for Fox's Glee; the winner received a seven-episode arc. Season 1 crowned Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty; season 2 winner was Blake Jenner.

The Glenlivet distillery

The Glenlivet distillery, founded 1824 by George Smith in the Livet valley of Speyside, Scotland, first licensed distiller in the parish, trademarked "The" Glenlivet in 1884, now owned by Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard) with light lantern-still single malt.

The Glenn Beck Program

The Glenn Beck Program is Glenn Beck's nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio show on Premiere Networks, airing weekdays 9 a.m.–noon ET, with past TV versions on CNN Headline News and Fox News and current distribution via BlazeTV and Torch.

The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story (1954) is a Universal-International biographical musical directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart as bandleader Glenn Miller and June Allyson as Helen Burger, with Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa as themselves; a Technicolor box-office hit that earned Oscar nominations and a Best Sound win.

The Glimmer Man

The Glimmer Man is a 1996 American action thriller directed by John Gray, starring Steven Seagal and Keenen Ivory Wayans as Los Angeles detectives hunting a serial killer.

The Glitch Mob

The Glitch Mob is an American electronic music trio from Los Angeles, formed by Ooah, Boreta, and edIT, known for heavy bass music and custom live performance hardware.

The Gloaming

The Gloaming is an eight-part Australian Tasmanian noir crime drama created by Victoria Madden, starring Emma Booth and Ewen Leslie, which premiered on Stan on 1 January 2020 and later aired on Starz.

The Gloomy River

The Gloomy River (Ugryum-reka) is a 1933 novel by the Russian Soviet writer Vyacheslav Shishkov about three generations of the Gromov merchant family during the Siberian gold rush.

The Glory (더 글로리) (TV series)

The Glory (더 글로리) is a 2022–2023 South Korean Netflix revenge drama written by Kim Eun-sook, directed by Ahn Gil-ho, starring Song Hye-kyo as bullying victim Moon Dong-eun; 16 episodes in two parts, fifth most-watched non-English Netflix series.

The Glory (雁回时)

The Glory (雁回时, formerly 贵女) is a 2025 Chinese costume revenge drama adapted from Qianshan Chake's novel 重生之贵女难求, directed by Yang Long, starring Chen Duling and Xin Yunlai, 30 episodes, premiered March 18, 2025 on Tencent Video; Douban 6.8, Tencent heat over 30,000.

The Glory of Youth (号手就位)

The Glory of Youth (号手就位) is a 2021 Chinese military drama, the first TV series about the PLA Rocket Force, adapted from Feng Jie's novel, starring Li Yifeng as Xia Zhuo, 49 episodes, premiered April 13, 2021.

The Gnome-Mobile

The Gnome-Mobile is a 1967 Walt Disney live-action fantasy comedy directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Walter Brennan in a dual role with the Mary Poppins child stars, based on Upton Sinclair's gnome novel.

The Go Master (吴清源)

The Go Master (吴清源) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2006 biographical drama about Go master Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), starring Chang Chen; a 104-minute China-Japan co-production delayed by funding disputes and praised as restrained.

The Go-Between

The Go-Between is L. P. Hartley's 1953 novel about Leo Colston, a boy who carries messages between lovers Marian and Ted Burgess at Brandham Hall, Norfolk, in 1900; famous for its opening line and the Losey-Pinter 1971 Palme d'Or film.

The Go-Between (1971 film)

The Go-Between (1971) is Joseph Losey's British drama, scripted by Harold Pinter from L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel, about a boy carrying secret love letters in 1900 Norfolk; it won the 1971 Cannes Palme d'Or and BAFTAs for Pinter's screenplay.