Maeve Binchy
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller, "* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea ... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is...
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English
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"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 of 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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Language
English
Description
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born; but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social worker is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home.
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English
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In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
6) Quentins
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Language
English
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While filming a documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores the changing face of the city from the 1970s to the present day as she captures the stories of the people who have made Quentins a center of their lives.
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
"When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann?s Well, which is set at the edge of the woods and slated for destruction. People have been coming to St. Ann?s for generations to share their dreams and fears, and speak their prayers. Some believe it to be a...
8) The Builders
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Series
Publisher
Gemma Open Door
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Original short fiction by a beloved best-selling author on her best topic relationships. Charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next door, everyone expects the worst. But when the handsome workman looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' disappearance, a strange relationship develops. With family
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
After many happy years of marriage and raising a family, Brian and Kathleen suddenly find themselves a bit lost in life. Midwesterners who’ve never traveled, Kathleen decides that what she and Brian need is a vacation, and with the help of an enthusiastic travel agent she plans a trip to Ireland in search of her roots. In beautiful, quaint Lisdoonvarna, to the couple’s surprise, they find themselves in the midst of a joyous yearly gathering...
12) Scarlet Feather
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Language
English
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Description
Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are talented additions to the Dublin scene with their new catering company, but some people in the city, including their families, are not so keen on the idea of their success.
13) Silver wedding
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Language
English
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Description
There was never any question that Deirdre and Desmond Doyle would celebrate a gala twenty-fifth anniversary. But as family and friends gather, the question is: will that celebration expose hurts and lies or bring them together with love?
15) Full house
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Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher, and doesn't earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs, and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It doesn't cost them anything, and surely their parents like...
Author
Publisher
Liberties
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a priceless Caravaggio mysteriously disappears from a convent in rural Ireland, it seems like the last straw for the little community. With no witnesses and no CCTV footage, the masterpiece is feared lost forever and the nuns, who depend on ticket sales to curious tourists, will have to sell up and leave. But the indomitable Sister Alice persuades Sister Superior to allow her investigate. With the help of the abbey's computer-savvy librarian,...
17) The glass lake
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Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in Lough Glass, Ireland, The Glass Lake is an incandescent novel of family love, belonging, and secrets that flourish in the human heart. Lough Glass is the lake at the heart of the small Irish town that bears its name. Serene and dark, its waters harbor secrets as deep and unfathomable as Helen McMahon, the beautiful woman who roams the darkened shores night after night.
Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of...
18) The copper beech
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves--into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
19) Echoes
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Publisher
New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After Clare O'Brien, a poor shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, a son of a wealthy family of Castlebay, marry, they find the confinements of life in the small Irish seaside town of Castlebay once again closing in.