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Nora Webster

Colm Tibín · Thorndike Press; Lrg Rep edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller Widowed at forty with four children and not enough money, Nora Webster has lost the love of her life. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny Irish community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in sorrow and blind to the suffering...
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The Woman Who Stole My Life: A Novel

Marian Keyes · Viking
Pages: 451
Format: Print book

A funny new novel from international bestselling author Marian Keyes about Irish beautician Stella Sweeney who falls ill, falls in love, then falls into a glamorous new life in New York City. When her dream life is threatened, will she rally to reclaim love and happiness?In her own words,...
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Days Without End

Sebastian Barry · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER"Startlingly beautiful ... Breathtakingly exciting." -The Guardian From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Journal) , comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American...
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Mrs. Osmond: A novel

John Banville

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a dazzling and audacious new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected territory.Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off
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The Green Road: A Novel

Anne Enright · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.From internationally acclaimed 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...
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One Hundred Names: A Novel

Cecelia Ahern · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern's One Hundred Names is the story of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our lives - a universal tale that will grip you with its emotional power and mesmerize you with its magic.Scandal has derailed Journalist...
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The Trespasser: A Novel

Tana French · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting" (The New York Times) . She "inspires cultic devotion in readers . . . (The New Yorker) and is "the most important...
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The Wonder

Emma Donoghue · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
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The Little Red Chairs

Edna O'Brien · Little
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our timeOne night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic,...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Centennial Edition

James Joyce · Signet Classics
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus,...
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