A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
By: Fintan O'Toole
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them.…
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1. Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
By: Marie Heaney
4.14
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehe… read more
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- history
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2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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3. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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5. McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
By: Pete McCarthy
3.76
Format: None pages,
The #1 Irish Bestseller Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that now… read more
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6. Trinity
By: Leon Uris
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Leon Uris's beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market. From the acclaimed author who en… read more
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7. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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8. New York
By: Edward Rutherfurd
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together t… read more
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9. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
10. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
11. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
12. 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
By: Donald P. Ryan
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life wa… read more
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13. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
14. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
15. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- ireland
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17. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture
By: Annie Ernaux
4.15
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more
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18. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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19. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
21. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
22. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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23. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
By: Ian W. Toll
4.59
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more
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- history
24. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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25. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
By: John Gibney
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more
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26. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
By: John McWhorter
3.95
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more
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- history
27. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
28. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
29. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
By: John Banville
3.73
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birt… read more
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"I am like the Census,"-John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
"... I am old now, or oldening ..."-John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
"... all frail sufferers from the same disease that affected me, all ailing bibliomanes being treated for addiction, as in a literary methadone clinic..."-John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
"Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does th…"-John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
30. A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
By: Fintan O'Toole
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Objects don't just have stories, they tell stories. There is a certain paradox that surrounds them.… read more
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31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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