5 best-selling ireland books like The Little Book of Irishisms by Aimee Alexander

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The Little Book of Irishisms

By: Aimee Alexander

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If an Irish person said to you, “Gimmie that yoke,” would you think they were talking about an egg?…

If you liked the ireland plot in The Little Book of Irishisms by Aimee Alexander , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Last Secret of the Deverills (Deverill Chronicles, #3) by Santa Montefiore

1. The Last Secret of the Deverills (Deverill Chronicles, #3)

By: Santa Montefiore

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

It is 1939 and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. But much has changed for the Deveril… read more

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Cover of Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1) by Courtney Peppernell, Rosy Bullot, None

2. Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

By: Courtney Peppernell , Rosy Bullot , None

3.82

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love and raw emotions. It… read more

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"My heart is not in my body; it's lying under the castle you burned down."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"I had a dream that I was under my skin, lost and wandering around my body."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Does art make sense to you? You are so brave an quiet; I think you would understand."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

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3. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

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4. The Weary Blues

By: Langston Hughes

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more

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5. The Psychology of Dexter

By: Tamara McClintock Greenberg , Bella DePaulo

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dexter Morgan: Police forensic analyst. Family man. Serial killer. And the star of Showtime's most-… read more

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6. The Library at the Edge of the World

By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy

3.73

Format: 32 pages,

A warm, feel-good novel about the importance of finding a place where you belong - perfect for fans… read more

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7. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

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"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

8. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper

By: Charles Perrault , Marcia Brown

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slippe… read more

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9. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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10. The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

By: Stephanie Coontz

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

The Way We Never Wereexamines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths … read more

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11. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

12. The O'Brien Book of Irish Fairy Tales and Legends

By: Susan Field , Una Leavy

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The magical adventures of leprechauns, giants, and fairies passed down through centuries of Irish f… read more

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13. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more

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"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

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14. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)

By: Alison Goodman

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as a… read more

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"What makes you think he is trustworthy?’ ‘ He has a sense of humor,’ I said, and then added the final proof. ‘And he found my observations funny too."

-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)

"If you need me, just yell,' he said. 'Ladies do not yell,' I replied over my shoulder. 'But renegades do.' I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the mirrors as I passed; my color was high and I had …"

-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)

"My brother pursed his lips. 'Love? Really, Augusta, this is an important decision. If you think love is essential to a good match it is no wonder you are still unmarried.' 'Duffy, that is unkind,' Ju…"

-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)

"He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,' Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encoun…"

-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)

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15. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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16. The Lost Village

By: Camilla Sten

3.54

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, … read more

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"This isn't a movie. In a movie we would have hugged and been best friends again, now and forever. That's never going to happen. I think I'll be living with this dull pain for the rest of my life. I'l…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

"She's right. They all are. I can feel it in my bones, that fear, like a sour taste on my tongue. I want nothing more than to stay here, to give in to their reason. I've seen the movies, too—I know wh…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

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17. The Lover

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more

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18. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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19. Our Crooked Hearts

By: Melissa Albert

3.75

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is Our Crooked Hearts, a contemporary fanta… read more

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"Magic was a thing with teeth and a history as old as the world."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"The memories blossomed and withered, and now they belonged only to me."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"Rage and time were the only currencies left to her, and she used them."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

"The air shimmered with the ghosts of our younger selves, our secrets, our heads side by side on the wooden floor."

-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

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20. An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

By: Kyle T. Mays

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our count… read more

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21. Murder in Galway (Home to Ireland Mystery, #1)

By: Carlene O'Connor

3.93

Format: 330 pages, Mass Market Paperback

New Yorker Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway may be her last . . . Tara never imagined her intr… read more

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Cover of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela  Chen

22. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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23. Theo of Golden

By: Allen Levi

4.73

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern … read more

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24. My Love Story

By: Tina Turner

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Tina Turner—the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend—sets the record straight about… read more

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25. No Strangers Here (County Kerry Mystery, #1)

By: Carlene O'Connor

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On a rocky beach in the southwest of Ireland, the body of Johnny O’Reilly, sixty-nine years old and… read more

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26. Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living

By: Lauren Liess

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“In Down to Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living , designer Lauren Liess shares how she imbues an… read more

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27. The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland (History & Fun Facts 1)

By: Bill O'Neill

3.54

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

How much do you know about Ireland? There’s so much to learn about the Emerald Isle that even its r… read more

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  • ireland
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28. The Little Book of Irishisms

By: Aimee Alexander

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If an Irish person said to you, “Gimmie that yoke,” would you think they were talking about an egg?… read more

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