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• The Women Behind the Door

  Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

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  The Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha presents a mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption.

• The Alternatives

  Hughes, Caoilinn, 1985-

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  The four Flattery sisters--all single, all with PhDs--lead disparate, distanced lives until their oldest sister, a geologist, disappears, and together for the first time in years, they search the Irish countryside for a sister who doesn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hunter

  French, Tana,

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  It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.

• Hamnet

  a Novel of the Plague

  O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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  A moving story about the death of William Shakespeare's 11-year-old son Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play, Hamlet.

• Intermezzo

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  In the wake of their father's death, two brothers--successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player--find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Things Like These

  Keegan, Claire,

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  In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pull of the Stars

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.

• Prophet Song

  Lynch, Paul, 1977-

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  As Ireland devolves into a brutal police state, one woman tries to preserve her family in this stark, dystopian fable.

• The Rachel Incident

  O'Donoghue, Caroline,

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  Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirty Laundry

  a Novel

  Bose, Disha,

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  A clique of mothers in a small Irish village react to the murder of their queen bee, whose picture-perfect life made easy money on Instagram and whose death provided each of them something to gain.

• Trespasses

  Kennedy, Louise (Ph. D.),

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  A clandestine affair unfolds with tragic inevitability during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

• Out of Love

  Hayes, Hazel, 1985-

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  This novel begins at the end. Angel and Theo call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend's belongings, Angel wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Apeirogon

  a Novel

  McCann, Colum, 1965-

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  Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

• The Magician

  Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

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  An intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann, a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived--the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Milkman

  Burns, Anna, 1962-

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  In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.