Grainger, Jean
Summary: Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerAlexander, V. S.
Summary: When her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest, sixteen-year-old Teagan is sent to one of Dublin's Magdalen Laundries for fallen women, where she befriends two other girls who help her endure the harsh captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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Summary: In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2024
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Summary: "A poignant debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Donoghue 2020Yukimura, Makoto
Summary: "Sigurd returns home to Iceland to face the horrible Halfdan, but a father and a king can only be as good as his word--a blessing he refuses to bestow to Sigurd without a fight. All the while, Gudrid joins Thorfinn and the crew on their journey to Thorfinn's childhood home, where Halfdan's presence looms mightily...However, with some help from fresh faces and promising volunteers, the day the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2021
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Summary: "Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what her and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of Country Cork. She and JohnJoe are united and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A thrilling, beautifully written mystery debut that brings 1880s Dublin vividly, passionately to life, from the former editor of The Irish Times This captivating, expertly crafted mystery debut captures the life and essence of Victorian Dublin and draws the reader on a gripping journey of murder and intrigue. In the 1880s the Dublin Metropolitan Police classified crime in two distinct...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRARutherfurd, Edward.
Summary: Once again Rutherfurd takes us inside the process of history by tracing the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of society, Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic. Through the eyes of the victims and the perpetrators alike the painful realities of the anti-Catholic penal laws, the catastrophic famine and the massive migration to North America, the rise of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUTKennedy, Louise
Summary: "Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KennedyRutherfurd, Edward.
Summary: A sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherford's storytelling magic. The saga begins in tribal, pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty High kings at Tara, with the fate of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails cleverly echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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Summary: In a story set against the backdrop of Dublin in 1915, two boys who meet at the local swimming hole plan to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter, but their plans coincide with the Easter uprising--a historic rebellion that changes their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'NERutherfurd, Edward.
Summary: Once again Rutherfurd takes us inside the process of history by tracing the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of society, Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUTJiwa, Bernadette
Summary: "'People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1965. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIWManning, Matthew K.
Summary: "In 1795, a mysterious human-made pit was discovered on Oak Island. People began digging into the pit to discover its secrets, but it was flooded by seawater and could no longer be explored. Since then, many theories have been suggested about both the pit and the island. Is the island secretly hiding pirate treasure, valuable artifacts from the Knights Templar, or even lost manuscripts by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MANOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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Summary: "December 1965. Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his colleague Barry Laverty, and their friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying their favorite holiday traditions. There's even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas. The season brings its fair share of challenges as well, including a black-sheep brother hoping to reconcile with his estranged family, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TAYRoberts, Tara Karr
Summary: "Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBaker, Ellen
Summary: Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BakerTóibín, Colm
Summary: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks, young Trian and old Cormac, he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the island now known as Skellig Michael, an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022