Maeve Binchy
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Language
English
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When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
2) Tara Road
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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Two women agree to trade homes for the summer, one in Ireland, the other in America and each learn a secret in the process.
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English
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"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 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) is...
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English
Description
Follows the efforts of Chicky who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges. John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday...
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English
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In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
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English
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Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Fiona is a young nurse, trying to make her family understand her need to follow her own path. Thomas desperately misses his young son and fears that his ex-wife will...
10) The glass lake
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Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Compulsively readable . . . Like all her exuberant fiction, The Glass Lake is large, generous, and full of life.”—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name....
Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name....
11) Heart and soul
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Language
English
Description
A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.
14) Evening class
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Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
16) Chestnut Street
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
581 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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 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) is...
18) Ecos del corazón
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Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Cuenta la leyenda que, cuando uno formula un deseo, la cueva de Castlebay, en los abruptos acantilados irlandeses, responde en vez de devolver el eco de la voz. En su día escuchó los deseos de David Power y Clare O'Brien, dos jóvenes que soñaban con volar lejos del pequeño pueblo costero en el que estaban atrapados. Años después, en Dublín, sus caminos se cruzan de nuevo. David es un estudiante de medicina ansioso por seguir los pasos de su...
20) Tara Road
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
502p. 25cm.
Language
English