Available as a downloadable audiobook and an eBook. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
A radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers share grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann is set in 1974 Manhattan.
Be sure to check out the acclaimed movie based on the novel when you finish. Forced to leave behind her family in Ireland to accept a job in 1950s America, bookkeeper Eilis Lacey unexpectedly falls in love with an Italian man with a big family, who she fears losing when tragic news arrives from home. Available as a downloadable audiobook and an eBook.īrooklyn by Colm Toibin. The journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child’s life. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is the story of a woman hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but “manna from heaven” for months. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It documents the notorious abduction and murder of Jean McConville in 1972 Belfast, exploring how the case reflected the brutal conflicts of Northern Ireland and their ongoing repercussions. Say Nothing by Patrick Radding Keefe describes itself as a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland. While setting the town on its ear, he enlists the help of a brash anarchist and retired theater actress to solve this mystery. When lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony discovers that his mother may not have given him up, but that foul play may have led to her disappearance, he returns to the rural Irish Village where he was born to find out what really happened 26 years ago. Himselfby Jeff Kidd is an entertaining mystery with a dark sense of humor. Available as a downloadable audiobook on Hoopla and Overdrive and as an eBook. This novel is the start of the series, “The Dublin Murder Squad,” where detectives investigate tangled mysteries as well as their own tangled relationships and psyches. In the Woods won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. In the Woods by Tana French is a dark psychological mystery.
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