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We had a look last week at a selection of online research and reference tools available for you to use at a time and a place and a pace that suits you, and all for free with your Dublin City Library card.

If you’re an advocate of ‘Dress Up Fridays’, the following reads on Borrowbox might be right up your runway!

As most of us are spending more time at home these days, there is a tendency to reminisce about bygone days and this book fits that bill. A sort of memoir of the 60s, the title of the book refers to the two most common games played by children of that era.

Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, but there is no mistaking the infamy of Jack the Ripper.

My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells.

In this crazy absurd existence that we are all living through at the present time, the need for distraction and diversion is essential. Music is something which we can use to relax and keep our sanity. In the e resources at Dublin City Library you can access music for free.

This is the perfect title for the book and I doubt there is a single female out there who hasn’t waited for a call that never came. Well, if you want to be reminded, this is the book for you.

In this fascinating, well written and accessible biography, the two authors tell us the remarkable history of Fine Gael, from its origins in the violent struggle of the Civil War years to a century later, being in a coalition government with its sworn enemy Fianna Fáil.

Professor Luke O'Neill is a rock star of these times so I thought I'd check if he had published any books and was delighted to find "Humanology : a scientist's guide to our amazing existence".

Do you have little ones at home and  are running out of ideas on how to entertain them? Or perhaps older students who are struggling with a project for school? Or maybe you have a curious mind.