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Solar Bones

Mike McCormack · Soho Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen...
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Lilac Lane

Sherryl Woods · MIRA
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover

Chesapeake Shores has always represented home and family for the O'Briens, but in Lilac Lane, the community extends its healing powers to a woman recovering from overwhelming griefSingle mom Kiera Malone struggled for years to raise her three children in a small town on the coast of Ireland....
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An Irish Country Practice: An Irish Country Novel

PATRICK TAYLOR · Forge Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An Irish Country Practice is the twelfth heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series.Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo:...
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America's finest writers -- a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps...
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The World of Tomorrow

BRENDAN MATHEWS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Three brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar New YorkJune 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York...
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The Stolen Child: A Novel

Lisa Carey · HarperPerennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants' lives and tangled relationships - perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey,...
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Brooklyn

Colm Toibin · Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Print book

Colm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel - soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education - is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early...
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The Girl in the Castle: A Novel

Santa Montefiore · William Morrow
Pages: 27
Format: Print book

"Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore." - JOJO MOYESInternational sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century - perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor.Born on the ninth...
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Island of Glass

Nora Roberts · Berkley
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune.As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior...
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Ashes of Fiery Weather

Kathleen Donohoe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11 "There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more...
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Leaving Lucy Pear

Anna Solomon · Viking
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon's spell." - Sue Monk KiddChosen as a must-read book for summer 2016 by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPageSet in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both...
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Irish Meadows

Susan Anne Mason · Bethany House, A division of Baker Publisher Group
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

1911, Long Island, New York Faced With an Uncertain Future, SometimesAll You Have Left Is the Courage to DreamBrianna and Colleen O'Leary know their Irish immigrant father expects them to marry well. Recently he's put even more pressure on them, insinuating that the very future of their...
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