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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin

In a small town in Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many who cannot find work. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings on the dance floor of the parish hall until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself facing a terrible choice. A tender story of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.

Epub.

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We Are All Made of Glue
Marina Lewycka

Georgie Sinclair's husband has left her; her sixteen-year-old son is busy exploring fundamentalist Christian websites and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World aren't looking too appealing either. So when she spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs. And when two slimy rival estate agents start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old mansion, Georgie must step in and help her new friend.

Epub.

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John the Revelator
Peter Murphy

Stuck in a small town and worried over by his single mother John Devine yearns for escape. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town John's life suddenly seems to be full of possibility. But together their nose for trouble may be their undoing and, as John hides from the reality of his mother's ever-worsening health, he is soon faced with a terrible moral dilemma.

Epub.

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Confessions Of An Eco Sinner
Fred Pearce

7. Travelling across the world to track his personal 'footprint', Fred Pearce finds himself questioning an extraordinary number of accepted truths. Should Kenyan green beans go right back on his shopping list? Should he stop campaigning for a clean coastline? While he's at it, should he be cheering for Bangladeshi sweatshops too? In search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry and the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff, Fred travels from rainforest to desert, up mountains and down mines, from oil field to shanty town to brothel. This compelling story of his travels challenges a range of green assumptions, moving green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

Epub.

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Utterly Impartial History of Britain
John O'Farrell

10. Many of us were put off history by the dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler. But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now: how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; how England's peculiar class system was established and the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. A book about then that is also incisive and illuminating about now, this is a hilarious, informative and cantankerous journey through Britain's fascinating and bizarre history.

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