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OverDrive eBooks March 2021
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"It is not easy to be a pioneer -- but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world." -- Elizabeth Blackwell
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Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
A memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a colleague, and the remarkable discoveries they've made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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The Little Red Chairs : a Novel
by Edna O'Brien
Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, an Eastern European immigrant whom she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work, only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague.
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Exciting Times : a Novel
by Naoise Dolan
Millennial Irish expat Ava becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.
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Asking For It
by Louise O'Neill
After beautiful eighteen-year-old Emma O'Donovan is found on her doorstep disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, with no memory of the party she attended the night before, viral photographs from the party set off a criminal investigation that divides herquiet Irish town.
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The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue
Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life. By the best-selling author of Room.
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Actress : a Novel
by Anne Enright
When her Irish-theater-legend mother succumbs to alcohol and instability, Norah draws on her experiences of surviving a crime and growing up in the wings of her mother’s career to rediscover herself as a wife, mother and writer.
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Milkman : a Novel
by Anna Burns
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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