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OverDrive Audiobooks March 2019
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"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." -- Dorothy Parker
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March is Women's History Month
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Sharp : the Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean
An acclaimed, award-winning literary critic combines biography and cultural history to highlight the lives of brilliant, quick-witted women writers who became influential at a time where women were still second class citizens, including Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West and Susan Sontag.
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Good and Mad : the Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
by Rebecca Traister
Explores the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement, tracking the history of women's anger as political fuel, from suffragettes campaigning for voting rights to the Women's March and the #MeToo movement.
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Figuring
by Maria Popova
The Brain Pickings science writer and host of The Universe in Verse explores the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of historical figures from four centuries, from astronomer Johannes Kepler to biologist Rachel Carson.
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Contemporary Irish Fiction
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This Charming Man
by Marian Keyes
A tale told from the viewpoints of four different women traces their experiences of heartbreak at the hands of up-and-coming Dublin politician Paddy de Courcy, a charismatic womanizer who hides the truth about his fickle nature.
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Ancient Light
by John Banville
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of 15 with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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Unraveling Oliver
by Liz Nugent
Oliver Ryan, a successful and charismatic writer of children's books, commits a shocking act of violence on his wife and literary partner, Alice, an attack that leaves her in a coma and causes their baffled friends and family to investigate what happened.
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Conversations with Friends : a Novel
by Sally Rooney
Devoting herself to an intellectual life and the self-possessed lover with whom she performs spoken-word poetry readings, a college student is drawn into the lives of a sophisticated journalist and her husband before the increasingly intimate relationship tests the boundaries of her resolve. A first novel.
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