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[2017] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
First U.S. edition.
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Retreating to her family's rural house in Ireland to escape the challenges of urban life, artist Frankie explores the chain of events that have challenged her mental stability and art education. As she picks up photography once more, she searches for meaning and healing while examining the natural world around her.
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NOVEL BOWMAN
2017. Hachette Books Ireland
330 pages ; 24 cm
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NOVEL BOWMAN
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"Horace Winter has lived an unexceptional life. Ever since that long-ago day, when the Very Bad Thing happened, he prefers to spend time with his butterfly and moth book instead of with other human beings. But when Horace retires from his job as assistant bank manager and, he struggles to adjust to a life without routine, he receives a devastating prognosis and is forced to confront the life he has (or hasn't) led. As he does, he meets Amanda. and...
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GENLIT GRIFFIN
2016. Berkley Books
Berkley trade paperback edition.
340 pages ; .
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GENLIT GRIFFIN
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL GRIFFIN
2017. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print edition.
563 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL GRIFFIN
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"Every bouquet tells a story. And every story begins at Blossom & Grow, a tiny flower shop in the heart of Dublin... Among the buckets of fragrant blooms, beneath the flickering candles and lanterns, Lara works her magic, translating feelings into flower arrangements that change hearts and lives. She is no stranger to the power of flowers herself. They gave her hope when she was a child who lost a mother, and, again when she was a mother who lost...
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NOVEL KELLY
2015. Grand Central Publishing
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
458 pages ; 21 cm
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NOVEL KELLY
2015 Grand Central Publishing
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2015 Grand Central Publishing
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2015. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print.
671 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
It all started with Paris. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Ireland. Leila's been nursing a broken heart since her husband suddenly left her, but she's determined to put on a brave face for the bride. Vonnie, a widow, has finally dared to let love back into her life, but a curveball arises...
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NOVEL LYNCH
2017. Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
354 pages ; 25 cm
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NOVEL LYNCH
2017 Little, Brown and Company
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2017 Little, Brown and Company
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"Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, "You are the strong one now." With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits her in men's clothing and casts her out. When her younger brother Colly follows after her, the two set off on a remarkable odyssey in the looming shadow of their country's darkest hour. The broken...
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Series
Happy people read and drink coffee volume 1
[2016] Weinstein Books
First Edition.
242 pages ; 21 cm
[2016] Recorded Books
Unabridged.
4 audio discs (4 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2016] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (4 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Diane is the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a literary café in Paris. When her husband and daughter die in a car accident, her life is overturned and the world as she knows it instantly disappears. Trapped by her memories, she moves to a small town on the Irish coast. There she falls into a surprising and tumultuous romance with Edward, a taciturn photographer who lives next door.
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Deverill chronicles volume 2
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NOVEL MONTEFIORE
2017. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First William Morrow edition.
567 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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NOVEL MONTEFIORE
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In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory -- to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O'Leary -- the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking...
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NOVEL BINCHY
2014. Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition.
367 pages ; 25 cm
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NOVEL BINCHY
[2014] Books on Tape / Random House
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2014 Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2014 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OverDrive
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2014 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2014. Thorndike Press
Large print edition.
581 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
2015. Large Print Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print edition.
579 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future, " she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie)...
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NOVEL ENRIGHT
[2007] Black Cat
260 pages ; 21 cm
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NOVEL ENRIGHT
2007. Grove Press
260 pages ; 22 cm
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2008. Thorndike Press
377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
[2008] Findaway World
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
As nine members of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, his sister Veronica remembers the secret he shared with her about what happened in their grandmother's house thirty years ago, a betrayal that spans three generations.
"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead...
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NOVEL O'FARRELL
2016. Alfred A. Knopf
First United States edition.
x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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NOVEL O'FARRELL
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CD NOVEL O'FARRELL
℗2016. Recorded Books
12 audio discs (14.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD NOVEL O'FARRELL
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
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NOVEL O'BRIEN
2016. Little Brown and Company
First North American edition.
299 pages ; 25 cm
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NOVEL O'BRIEN
[2016] Blackstone Audio, Inc
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (9 hr., 42 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2016 Hachette Audio
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2016 Little, Brown and Company
OverDrive
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2016 Little, Brown and Company
OverDrive
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2016. Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print edition.
360 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
[2016] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this astonishing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequences of that fatal attraction. The Little Red...
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GENLIT ROONEY
[2017] Hogarth
First United States paperback edition.
309 pages ; 22 cm
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GENLIT ROONEY
[2017] Hogarth
First United States Edition.
309 pages ; 22 cm
2017 Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2017 Random House Publishing Group
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2017 Random House Publishing Group
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
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[2014] Steerforth Press
First U.S. edition.
207 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When Johnsey Cunliffe inherits the family farm after his parents' deaths, village bullies and scheming land-grabbers haunt him at every turn.
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Irish Country books volume 12
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NOVEL TAYLOR
2016. Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
First edition.
384 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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NOVEL TAYLOR
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CD NOVEL TAYLOR
[2016] Macmillan Audio
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (13.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD NOVEL TAYLOR
2016. Thorndike Press
Large print edition.
653 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"For decades, ever since the war, Number One Main Street, Ballybucklebo, has housed O'Reilly and his practice ... It is to Number One that patients young and old come when they need a doctor's care, for everything from the measles to a rare and baffling blood disease. An unexpected turn of events threatens to drive O'Reilly from his home for good, unless the entire village can rally behind their doctor and prove that love really can conquer all"--...