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Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth-century western Ireland, Brehon judge Mara attends the funeral of a priest from the Burren, only to discover the dead body of a local silversmith, Sorley, a greedy and distrusted man who was stung to death by bees.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora Webster 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 young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has...
85) Feverborn
Author
Series
Fever volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the immortal race of the Fae destroyed the ancient wall dividing the worlds of Man and Faery, the very fabric of the universe was damaged and now Earth is vanishing bit by bit. Only the long-lost Song of Making -- a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of all life itself -- can save the planet. But those who seek the mythic Song -- Mac, Barrons, Ryodan and Jada -- must contend with old wounds and new enemies, passions that burn hot and...
86) A green journey
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired from a career of teaching and travels to Ireland in search of the romance she never had time for. And along the way, she not only discovers people she would never have let herself know before, but learns through experience, at long last, that love is unpredictable, unstoppable, and never appears as we dream it will.
Author
Series
[Torrey Tunet mystery] volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
While in Ireland Torrey Tunet of Massachusetts is invited to a castle whose owner lends her a diamond necklace. He is murdered and Torrey is arrested while having the necklace appraised. But she did not do it and must clear her name.
90) A swift pure cry
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets, and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
Author
Series
[Torrey Tunet mystery] volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Torrey Tunet delves into a case of blackmail when Natalie Sylvester Cameron, a wealthy widow and an affordable-housing advocate, begins receiving threatening phone calls and letters.
93) The bee sting
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kate Horsley tells the story of a young girl's search for identity in a brutal and unforgiving world. Set in an impoverished village in rural Ireland in the 1300s, Horsley's heroine must reckon with gender confusion, the hypocrisy of the Church, disease and social iniquities imposed by invaders.
96) Bog child
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Four women--Tess, who faces a crumbling marriage; her sister Suki, who is the victim of a dirt-digging biographer; Mara, who is seeking sanctuary; and Danae, a postmistress who guards the town's secrets--must confront their pasts before they can look to the future.
98) Buried in a bog
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small Irish village where her Gran was born, Maura Donovan takes a job in one of the local pubs where she can get to know the people who knew her Gran, but instead, finds herself mired in a homicide investigation when a body is discovered in a nearby bog.
99) Dubliners
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century.
100) The Green Road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of
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