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• Angela's Ashes

  a Memoir

  McCourt, Frank, 1930-

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  The Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland

• Normal People

  A Novel

  Rooney, Sally

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  A love story about how a person can change another person's life -- a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel.

• Again, Rachel

  Keyes, Marian

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  Book 7 in the Walsh Family Series. In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess in her twenties but now in her fifties Rachel's finally got herself on track - but life never stops being messy.

• Minding Frankie

  Binchy, Maeve

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  A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.

• Two Pints

  Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

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  Inspired by a year’s worth of news, Two Pints distils the essence of Roddy Doyle’s comic genius. This book shares the concision of a collection of poems, and the timing of a virtuoso comedian.

• The Mammy

  O'Carroll, Brendan, 1955-

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  "Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne—a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Sounds depressing but it's very funny.

• The Searcher

  A Novel

  French, Tana

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  Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever. Then a local boy appeals to him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wonder

  a Novel

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  The Wonder is a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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  Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.