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Summary: If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's bound to burn out. Until Saoirse meets Ruby, a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. Ruby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMYMurrin, Alan
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: "In an evocative Celtic novel set in a time when druids roamed the land, lively young sister Deirdre embarks on a mission to find the stolen bones of her convent's patron saint. In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from their church, the theft threatens to destroy all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECullen, Helen
Summary: Trinity College, Dublin, 1978. Aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession. But for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island, the Moone family are poised for celebration but instead are struck by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CULDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONBinchy, Maeve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BINTremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREAitken, Molly
Summary: "A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AITWilliams, Niall
Summary: "Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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Summary: It is a beautiful day in 1917, and Tyringham Park is in an uproar after Victoria Blackshaw, an innocent toddler, disappears without a trace. The feverish search for Victoria soon uncovers jealousies and deceits that both the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants of the grand estate have fought for years to keep hidden. As time passes, Victoria's disappearance casts a long shadow over all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLO'Raleigh, Brian
Summary: "When 38-Year-old Conner O’Rourke arrives in Ireland after an absence of thirty years, his life is in bits. His marriage is falling apart, his advertising agency in Australia is bankrupt, and he is hearing poetic voices in his mind urging him to return to his childhood home. The island of Inis Mór. His grandmother has contacted him, saying that she is dying and must speak with him, but when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2020
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Summary: Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUGrainger, Jean
Summary: "Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all. Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction, is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget and only Kate's parents to help, the task seems insurmountable. Kate's eldest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerGriffin, Anne
Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRITaylor, Patrick
Summary: In the small Irish village where he hopes to become a full partner in the local medical practice, Barry Laverty questions his ambitions in the face of a romantic reversal, while housekeeper Kinky Kincaid dreads the loss of her status to Dr. O'Reilly's new paramour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYTaylor, Patrick
Summary: Barry Laverty, a recent medical school graduate, jumps at the chance to join a rural practice in Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, until he meets his boss Dr. O'Reilly, a difficult older physician with his own way of doing things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TAYBlack, Benjamin
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020Harding, Lisa
Summary: "Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMcMillan, Shirley-Anne
Summary: "The pressure – social and academic – is high for the teenage students of an elite secondary school in Belfast; Can poetry, friendship and a trip to Spain give them the courage to be true to themselves? Wealthy, popular Charlotte and quiet, working class Drew couldn’t be more different, but both face a common enemy at Cooke’s Academy in the form of the Stewards – an elite group of students...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCMCullen, Jonathan.
Summary: Winters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a mysterious tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill. James Dunford has come from America but he won't say why. He spends his days fixing up the old cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog that showed up on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liquid Mind Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CullenFrench, Tana.
Summary: In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FRETóibín, Colm
Summary: "Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOINugent, Liz
Summary: The three Drumm brothers, William, Brian, and Luke, were born a year apart, and trained from birth by their mother to compete for her attention. They play games, as brothers do, yet even after the Drumms escape into the world beyond their windows, those games-- those little cruelties-- grow more sinister, more merciless, and more dangerous. And with their lives entwined like the strands of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUGCollins, Olive
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