Maeve Binchy
Author
Language
English
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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 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)...
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by her problematic personal life, her colorful and diverse staff, and the difficult patients they serve.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In a small Greek island village, local residents and a group of international travelers are brought together by sudden tragedy, in a story of friendship, dreams, fears, and complicated relationships forever altered by shared experiences.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are hot 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.
9) Full House
Author
Publisher
Orion Audiobooks
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
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to...
13) Tara Road
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The worlds of Dublin and Knockglen will suddenly be joined in intrigues and dreams as the mysteries of the past and the hopes of the future test the bonds of Benny and Eve's friendship.
15) Echoes
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the-Month Club
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In a small seaside Irish town in the late 1950s, two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far from Castlebay, a place empty and gloomy in winter but bustling with visitors in the gaudy days of summer. One of the children is Clare, shopkeeper Tom O'Brien's younger daughter. She wins a scholarship to University College, Dublin, and seems set for academic glory....