As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile Pat's Protestant soldier cousin, Andrew Chase-White, puzzles out his complex emotions about Ireland and the girl he loves. Weaving between them moves Millie Kinnard: fast, feminist, and only just respectable.

The Red And The Green

Literature & Fiction

Murdoch, I

Contemporary

Penguin Random House UK

Dictator (Book Three) (Cicero Trilogy)

The concluding part of the Cicero Trilogy that began with Imperium, from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland, An officer and a Spy, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and The Ghost. Aged 48, Marcus Cicero, the greatest orator of his time, is to all appearances a broken man. Out of power, exiled to the eastern Mediterranean with his faithful secretary, Tiro, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, he spends his days tormented by his failure. But, to quote one of his own famous aphorisms: 'while there's life there's hope'. By promising to support his political enemy, Caesar, he manages to win his return to Italy. Once home, he gradually fights his way back: first in the law courts, then in the senate, and finally by the power of his pen, until at last, for one brief and glorious period, he is once again the dominant figure in Rome. The long-awaited final volume of Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic events in human history: the collapse of the Roman republic, the subsequent civil war, the murder of Pompey and the assassination of Julius Caesar. Its theme, however, is timeless: how is political freedom to be safeguarded against the triple threats of unscrupulous personal ambition, of an electoral system dominated by vested financial interests, and of the corrupting impact of waging ceaseless foreign wars? But above all, it is the very human figure of Cicero, beset by family problems, which makes the story so compelling: brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful and yet ultimately brave -- a hero for his time, and for ours.

Dictator (Lead Title)

HARRIS,ROBERT

Genre Fiction

The new bestseller from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December. Having accepted a strange but intriguing invitation to a small island off the coast of France, psychiatrist Robert Hendricks meets the man who has commissioned him to write a biography, a man more interested in dredging up Robert's past than he is in revealing his own. Confronted suddenly with years of denying the reality of war and the loss he experienced as a soldier, Robert is overcome with memories, unsure which of them, if any, he can trust. Moving between the present and the past and casting a long, baleful light over the best and the worst of last hundred years, this powerful story is compelling and full of suspense, offering up a tender, brutal portrait of a man and a century, exploring whether a person after tragedy can ever be the same.

Where My Heart Used To Beat

SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Armada

Its just another day of high school for Zack Lightman Hes daydreaming through another boring math class with just one more month to go until graduation and freedomif he can make it that long without getting suspended again Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer At first Zack thinks hes going crazy A minute later hes sure of it Because the UFO hes staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armadain which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders But what Zacks seeing is all too real And his skillsas well as those of millions of gamers across the worldare going to be needed to save the earth from whats about to befall it Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught Zack cant help thinking of all the sciencefiction books TV shows and movies he grew up reading and watching and wonder Doesnt something about this scenario seem a little tooS familiar

Cline, E.

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papersNo American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything. The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

Kissinger

Biographies & Memoirs

Ferguson, N.

Historical

The New Spymasters

History

Grey, S.

Europe

Bridge To Terabithia

Katherine.Paterson

Roald Dahl's Beastly Creatures

Not-Stated

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Where The Very Hungry Caterpillar

eric-carle

Michael Lewis the Master of the Big Story is back with Flash Boys If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other think again That world is dead Now the worlds money is traded by computer code inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings Even the experts entrusted with your cash dont know whats happening to it And the very few who do arent about to tell because theyre making a killing This is a market thats rigged out of control and out of sight a market in which the chief need is for speed and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond Blink and youll miss it In Flash Boys Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on Its the story of what its like to declare war on some of the richest and most powerful people in the world Its about taking on an entire system And its about the madness that has taken hold of the financial markets to

Flash Boys

Business & Money

Lewis, M.

Finance

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