The following are some of our most popular Online Resources in September 2017. For more information about our Library Online please visit www.westmeathcoco.ie/LibOnline
- Skintown by Ciaran McMenamin - Our most popular Adult Fiction eAudiobook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/k2nSWL
Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. Trapped between Skintown’s narrow horizons, he chops ribs and chickens in a takeaway, dreaming of escape, joint after freshly rolled joint. A mindless act of kindness leads to the unlikeliest of business opportunities. Where the government has failed, might the second summer of love and a little pill with a dove on it be the broom to sweep away the hatred and replace it with love, so much love?Skintown is Vinny’s drink- and drug-fuelled odyssey through fighting, fishing, rioting, romance, reconciliation and acid house. Bristling with a restless energy and drunk on black humour, this superb debut is a wild ride.
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Our most popular Adult Fiction eBook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/V5Zr4v
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian, Christian theonomy that has overthrown the United States government, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence.
- Archaeology Ireland - our most searched JSTOR Journal in Sept 2017
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- Bonjour! - our most popular language on Mango Languages in Sept 2017
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- Excel 2016 - our most popular online course via Universal Class in Sept 2017
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- Heat Magazine - our most popular Digital magazine in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/gRTBXX
- Override by Caroline Williams - our most popular Adult Non-Fiction eAudiobook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/B8b8b3
Can you really rewire an adult brain? - In theory the answer is 'yes', but there's a problem: no-one seems to know exactly how to do it.
In Override, science journalist Caroline Williams sets off on a mission to find the answer. Delving into the latest studies on brain plasticity, which indicate that brain games don't actually do much to make you smarter, she tries to square her findings with the reality of brain plasticity – that the brain adapts physically as we learn something new.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling - our most popular Children's Fiction eAudiobook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/iox7jt
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes.
The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy ...
- Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan - our most popular Teen Fiction eAudiobook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/ec4Zst
How do you punish an immortal? - By making him human.
After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the 4000-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour.
- Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee - our most popular Adult Non-Fiction ebook
https://goo.gl/sWxFCR
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.
- Wonder by R J Palacio - our most popular Children's Fiction ebook in Sept 2017
https://goo.gl/eucRbA
My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
- Voices of Silence by Bel Mooney - our most popular Children's Non-Fiction ebook
https://goo.gl/vCK2rV
Before she knows it, everything in thirteen-year-old Flora Popescu's life has changed. Her parents, her best friend Alys, and the restricted life she has always known in their Bucharest tower block are distanced from her – and Daniel, the mysterious new boy at school, seems to be the cause. Flora likes him, but why can't everybody else trust him too?
- Complete Interworld Trilogy by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves & Mallory Reaves - our most popular Teen Fiction ebook
https://goo.gl/gE7dtb
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Content Last Updated/Reviewed: 12/10/2017
