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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Brian Floca |Michael Long |Cass Biehn |Caroline O'Donoghue
Caroline O’Donoghue. Walker US, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2881-6Teenage Margo is en route to boarding school in Dublin when her otherwise empty train stops inside a tunnel, triggering a panic attack. When Margo recovers, she notices that the train’s trappings have changed and she’s been joined by passenger Moon, who has never heard of Ireland. Confused and terrified, Margo disembarks with Moon in New Davia—one of several worlds connected by a strictly regulated railroad.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Brian Floca |Michael Long |Caroline O'Donoghue |Cass Biehn
Brian Floca, illus. by Sydney Smith. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5647-5The wind blows hard, and two children—one taller, one smaller—pull on their boots.
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2 months ago | 
shelf-awareness.com | Caroline O'Donoghue
photo: Little Blue Canoe PhotographyNancy Reddy is the author of the poetry collections Pocket Universe and Double Jinx, a winner of the National Poetry Series. With Emily Pérez, she's co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She also writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful. Her most recent book is The Good Mother Myth (St. Martin's Press, January 21, 2025), which unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Elif Batuman |Caroline O'Donoghue |Donna Tartt
Whether you’re headed back to school this fall or the backpack-clad commercials are making you nostalgic, September is the perfect time to sink into a campus novel. Whether you look back fondly on library all-nighters or you know you’d never go back, we’ve rounded up a list of 10 books that capture the messiness of love and friendship and the uncertainty of life in your early twenties. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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May 30, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Oisín McKenna |Coco Mellors |Caroline O'Donoghue
What to Read While We Wait for Intermezzo by Sally RooneyIt’s been three whole years since we’ve been graced with a brand new Sally Rooney novel — luckily her latest is nearly here. This fall we get to add to the long list of Sally Rooney books we know and love with Intermezzo, a novel about complicated relationships, family, grief — and chess. We know, we know — September is so far away, that’s why we’ve gathered a list of titles to keep us company while we count down the days.
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May 3, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Caroline O'Donoghue |John Marrs |John McPhee |Jeff Guinn
Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. by Caroline O'Donoghue Read it if you’re into: Contemporary dramas, Irish culture, modern loveThis contemporary work of fiction revolves around Rachel and James, two college-aged friends who meet at a bookstore in Cork and bond instantaneously. Their union is tested when Dr. Fred Byrne, Rachel’s married professor, enters the picture.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Caroline O'Donoghue
Whenever I meet an Australian - and, living in London, I'm liable to meet quite a few - I end up asking the same unanswerable question. "What ... what is going on over there?" I don't mean what is going on politically, economically, or even environmentally. I am mostly inquiring about pop culture. Or rather, I am mostly inquiring about myself. In 2018, I started Sentimental Garbage, a podcast about "the culture we love that society sometimes makes us feel ashamed of".
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
chicklit.nl | Caroline O'Donoghue
Rachel ontmoet James in de boekenwinkel waar ze allebei werken. Er ontstaat een mooie vriendschap en uiteindelijk besluiten ze samen te gaan wonen. Rachel heeft op dat moment een crush op haar docent, dr. Fred Byrne, die al enige tijd getrouwd is. Fred heeft een boek geschreven en polst bij Rachel hoeveel afnames de boekenwinkel gedaan heeft. Dit blijkt nauwelijks te zijn en Rachel besluit om een boekpresentatie te organiseren, zodat ze hem kan verleiden.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
thefreelibrary.com | Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hoffmann |Tania James |Caroline O'Donoghue
LITERARYPage 25KairosBy Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. by Michael HoffmannThis love story takes place during the collapse of East Germany. New York Times "It's a cathartic leak of a novel, a beautiful bummer, and the floodgates open early."LITERARYPage 26LootBy Tania JamesAn 18th-century automaton represents the dark, violent legacy of colonialism.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Brittany Bunzey |Caroline O'Donoghue |Sally Rooney |Maggie O'Farrell
By Brittany Bunzey / July 24, 2023 at 3:09 am Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter If you missed Bloomsday this year and didn’t pick up your copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, we have just the books to help you spend a different kind of day in Ireland with some of our favorite Irish voices (new and old). So say yes to any of these novels full of family, loyalty — and trouble. Hardcover $23.80 $28.00 The Rachel Incident The Rachel Incident By Caroline O'Donoghue In Stock...
