Staff Recommended Reads April 2013

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  Life After Life
  Kate Atkinson

  Paperback · 14 Mar 2013 · €18.70
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  During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. The same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? This book follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.

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  Five Days
  Douglas Kennedy

  Paperback · 28 Mar 2013 · €13.35
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  How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She's stopped thinking about all the places she'd like to go and all the books she's like to talk about. She's not unhappy, exactly.

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  Fever
  Mary Beth Keane

  Paperback · 31 Mar 2013 · €17.35
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  Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, is headstrong and brave, a woman who has battled fiercely to better her lot in life and keep her wayward lover Alfred on the straight and narrow. She works her way up the ranks to cook for the wealthiest families in Manhattan, but leaves a trail of death and disease in her wake.

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  Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
  Janet E Cameron

  Paperback · 01 Mar 2013 · €17.35
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  Strumpet City
  James Plunkett

  Paperback · 22 Feb 2013 · €10.99

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  Strumpet City, is, simply, one of the best Irish novels of the twentieth century and an enduring and popular classic.

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  The Incredible Life of Jonathan Doe
  Carol Coffey

  Paperback · 26 Mar 2013 · €16.99
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  The Twins
  Saskia Sarginson

  Paperback · 19 Mar 2013 · €17.35
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  The Crane Wife
  Patrick Ness

  Paperback · 04 Apr 2013 · €17.35
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  One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed.