Boy 11963: An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home
By: John Cameron
4.50
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Star of the Sea
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea set… read more
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"Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least."-Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
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2. Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story
By: None , None
4.54
Format: 608 pages,
At sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when … read more
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3. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
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4. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
By: John Boyne
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more
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5. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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6. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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7. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
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8. No One Saw a Thing
By: Andrea Mara
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more
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9. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
10. Someone in the Attic
By: Andrea Mara
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more
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11. Somebody Knows
By: Michelle McDonagh
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more
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12. There's Something I Have to Tell You
By: Michelle McDonagh
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more
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13. In Her Place
By: Edel Coffey
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. The Trial
By: Jo Spain
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more
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15. Body of Truth
By: Marie Cassidy
3.91
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
IN THE HUNT FOR A KILLER THE SCARS OF DEATH DON'T LIE FROM IRELAND'S FORMER STATE PATHOLOGIST MA… read more
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16. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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17. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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18. The Perfect Lie
By: Jo Spain
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
He jumped to his death in front of witnesses . Now his wife is charged with murder. Five years a… read more
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19. Missing Pieces of Mum
By: Sally Herbert
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A stolen past, a search for the truth, two lives changed forever. Born out of wedlock in Dublin … read more
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20. The Serial Killer’s Daughter (The Serial Killer's Family, #2)
By: Alice Hunter
3.85
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. After All...
By: Maria Trautman
4.20
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive… read more
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22. Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries
By: Maureen Sullivan
4.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being phy… read more
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23. Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch
By: John R. Barletta
4.50
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
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24. The Witness
By: Nicola Tallant
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. Breaking Point
By: Edel Coffey
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother
By: Andrew Pierce
4.44
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his b… read more
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27. Bessborough
By: Deirdre Finnerty
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, o… read more
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28. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)
By: Steve Cavanagh
4.40
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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29. Frankie
By: Graham Norton
4.53
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more
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30. Boy 11963: An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home
By: John Cameron
4.50
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerf… read more
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