 | The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.20 Winner of the Costa Prize and a Man Booker Prize nominee; a touching story of family hardship in Sligo in a time of suspicion. Book of the Month November 2008.
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 | Yesterday's Weather: Stories by Anne Enright
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.01 Short stories from Man Booker prizewinner Enright, with lyricism and soul. Book of the Month December 2008.
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 | De Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign by Dave Hannigan
Buy new: $19.14 / Used from: $8.00 Dev's search for American funds for Irish patriots. Book of the Month January 2009.
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 | How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch) (English and Irish Edition) by Daniel Cassidy
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.49 A great resource for those of us who thought we'd been raised in English-speaking households. Book of the Month October 2008.
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 | For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $37.25 Montana Gael Book of the Month February 2009.
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 | The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $5.14 McCabe's version of the new Ireland, with quirky black humor and a stark view of modern times. Perfect for the recession! Book of the Month March 2009.
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 | Freeman Walker by David Allan Cates
Buy new: $18.94 / Used from: $1.48 Missoula writer David Allen Cates captures the Civil War era and the life of a free black man as he meets up with an Irish general, and both find the gold of freedom. Book of the Month April 2009.
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 | Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.99 A lyrical novel about a young Irish girl who makes her way in Brooklyn. Well-reviewed, and compared to Banville and McGahern in its calm lyricism. Book of the Month May 2009.
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 | Pints and Purls: Portable Projects for the Social Knitter by Karida Collins
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $11.62 Go ahead, knit away! And enjoy a good pint while you're at it. The old gals in Kilronan never had idle hands. Still, it's hard to keep an Aran sweater white in the fray. Here are small projects for social knitting, with a goodly bit of pub lore thrown in. Book of the Month June 2009.
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 | Where the Money Went: Stories by Kevin Canty
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.95 Canty is one of the hippest of the new Montana fiction writers, with an Irish attention to character and a facile sense of story. And who can resist a book with a mermaid on the cover? Book of the Month July 2009.
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 | Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann
Buy new: $14.50 / Used from: $17.43 Irish writer Colum McCann has always been an internationalist, a no-boundaries sort of fellow, and in his latest novel he flies like Phillipe Petit between the towers of the World Trade Center, circa 1974. A beautifully written musing on democracy, fate, accomplishment, and freedom. Book of the Month August 2009.
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| Painting Rain by Paula Meehan
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $9.50 Lessons on love, language, and the shadows of culture from one of Ireland's finest poets. "Hearth Lesson" and other poems slice through the yeast loaf of poverty, breaking through. Another fine example of how Wake Forest University Press is the preeminent publisher for Irish poetry. Book of the Month September 2009.
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 | Love and Summer: A Novel by William Trevor
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $13.55 Trevor's fourteenth novel, a meditation on love and boundaries. Brilliant prose as usual, with telling emotional details and a grasp of the human condition. Book of the Month October 2009.
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 | Vanishing Ireland: v. 2: Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World by Turtle Bunbury
Buy used from: $95.59 Volume 2 of a series, the book captures more of Ireland's oldest generation, with interviews and stellar photographs of those who embody the country's memory. Book of the Month November 2009.
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