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Mrs Whippy Cecelia Ahern
A woman in trouble turns to ice cream, and just might find love in its pursuit. Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has just left her for a 23-year-old dancer. Her five difficult sons worship their father and blame… More
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In High Germany Dermot Bolger
An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago. This is the story of Euro ’88, the largest football event on the continent, and the … More
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Sad Song Vincent Banville
John Blaine is a private detective who works Dublin’s mean streets. He is tough, talented and smart, but always unlucky in love. His wife has just left him, and he’s sad and sorry. Now, hired to bring home … More
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The Sea and the Silence Peter Cunningham
Ireland 1945. Young and beautiful, Iz begins a life on the south-east coast with her new husband. As she settles in to try and make her life by the sea, circumstances that have brought Iz to Monument are shrouded in mystery.… More
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A Secret Map of Ireland Rosita Boland
When the award-winning Irish Times’ journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had–in common with all Irish children–amap of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational… More
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Smarty Girl Honor Molloy
An autobiographical novel set in 1960s Ireland, this irresistible debut follows the rise and fall of the O’Feeney family, as seen through the eyes of a precocious little girl. More savage than civilized, Noleen is a … More
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One Season in the Sun Joe Schuster
These are the tales of one-season wonders. The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game.… More
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Peach Joanne Green
A prom: the climax of lively and painful high school years. Throw in the sexual revolution, a stuttering cousin for a date, and a parking valet dressed like Abraham Lincoln, and looking cool is an impossible dream. The… More
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OMG! LOL! Thomas C Willadsen
An exploration of ecumenical silliness, OMG! LOL! reveals the sacred truth that laughter is a common language for people of all faiths.… More
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The Giant Baby Laurie Foos
What do you do when something magical happens…in your own backyard?
Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching… More
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The Last Body Part Sarajane Woolf
A woman discovers she has a rogue body part, one she’s never heard of. As she prepares herself for surgery to remove the offense, she travels to London and finds answers to her questions in unexpected places—a locked room… More
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The Transcriber Kristen Witucki
A spunky little brother deals with the disability of his sister in ways that are sometimes humorous, often touching, and always typical of sibling rivalry and reconciliation… More
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The Varieties of Erotic Experience Paul Reidinger
In an American city of old churches and ambitious pagans, death comes calling for an elderly woman—a bit ahead of schedule. God takes a meeting or two, and the eternal questions arise. A funeral becomes a party, a son inherits… More
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Gadget Girl Suzanne Kamata
Anna and the French Kiss meets Stoner & Spaz in a contemporary young adult coming-of-age novel about a girl, her struggles, and her art. Aiko Cassidy is fifteen and lives with her sculptor mother in a small Midwestern… More
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Time with Leo John Bliss
Sam Peterson is your average high school student?until he falls through a portal in time and space and lands in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci. This is worse than algebra! Da Vinci was a futurist. He imagined the airplane,… More
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The Peasants and the Mariners Brian Bouldrey
Modern travelers on foot follow wisdom along the Ulster Way. Storytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors, with their … More