By Julie Otsuka, this book tells the story of a group of ‘Picture Girls’, young Japanese women who, in the early decades of the twentieth century, crossed the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of the USA, to enter into arranged marriages with Japanese men already living and working there
Raheny Library will close from 8pm on Thursday 6 May until 11.30am on Saturday 8 May as the library premises is used as a polling station. There will be no My Open Library access during this time. Walkinstown Library Children’s Library will be closed on Friday 7 June as the library is used as a polling station. The Adult Library will remain open.
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From 1 May 2024, BorrowBox will offer library members access to newspapers and magazines as well as eBooks and audiobooks. The Libby and PressReader services will no longer be available to library members.
Matterhorn is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.
Émile Zola’s Germinal tells the story of an impoverished French mining village and a strike which is launched in protest at their increasingly poor conditions.
In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile.