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Cal Hooper volume 2
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
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226 pages ; 20 cm
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Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable....
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Jess O'Hara novels volume 2
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While helping a relative find his missing daughter, Jesse O'Hara, aided by her near photographic memory and dogged perseverance, antagonizes the Ireland's most dangerous drug kingpin, and when she doesn't backoff and other people turn up dead, she must solve this case before she ends up six feet under.
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Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
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596 pages ; 21 cm
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It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents ... Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains ... except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university...
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An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development over time, so much so that it is possible to piece together its history by tracing their construction in chronological order.Starting with Church Street...
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Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are beloved by Irish readers at home and abroad, and in this, the third book of the series, the authors have uncovered yet more photographic gems and breathed new life into them in glorious colour.
All of Irish life is here – from evictions in Connemara to the mosgt elegant drawing rooms in Dublin. Famous faces from politics and the arts appear alongside humble labourers and farmers...
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Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger is the compelling account of an American widow's journey through Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Her object was to determine the condition of the poor and discover why so many were emigrating to America. Eschewing fancy hotels and fine carriages, she travelled a good deal on foot and rested at common lodging-houses and even in the rudimentary cabins of the very poorest. This provided a unique opportunity to...
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When the award-winning Irish Times' journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had (in common with all Irish children) a map of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse. As the author matured and changed, so did the unique country she grew to know first-hand. With deep affection and curiosity, she followed her very own map from those by-gone schooldays to take the reader...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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315 pages ; 24 cm.
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In 1950s Dublin, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI John Strafford investigate the murder of a young history scholar with the help of her journalist sister, and as they close in on the killer, their personal lives put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in danger.
10) Antarctica
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
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207 pages ; 21 cm
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Summary: This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.
11) Wild houses
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2024.
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"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With hisacclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
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Grace O'Malley, better known in Ireland as Granuaile, was a pirate queen infesting the coast of Eirinn and further afield in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Powerful on both land and sea, she commanded a large fleet of ships as well as leading her own army into battle.
This fascinating book from Michael Sheane explores the reality behind the myths and legends that have been told about O'Malley - a story that is no less amazing once fact becomes separated...
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Writing under the pseudonym of 'Nimrod', this is Captain Apperley's famous "half-true, half-fictitious story descriptive of a country gentleman, of large fortune and highly connected, having two sons and two daughters the hero of my tale is the younger son, who, differing in tastes from his brother, enters into the sports of the field at a very early age, and becomes a thorough sportsman, in the legitimate sense of that, often wrongly applied, term."...
15) Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland Biographical Sketch and Letters
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A memoir, by Dr. K. Sell, with a translation of the letters of the princess to her mother, was published anonymously in German, Darmstadt, 1883. The letters are here given in the original, with a translation by Princess Christian, of the memoir.-Print ed.
The life of a princess is not always as glamorous as it seems. The tragic yet inspiring story of Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria is recounted in her own words through her letters. Overcoming...
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This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him over the centuries. This is an engaging and thought-provoking...
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This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him over the centuries. This is an engaging and thought-provoking...
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Major General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough KCB (25 November 1837 – 20 March 1922) joined the British Army in 1855, and retired in 1899, after more than forty years of distinguished service from the Crimea to all quarters of the Empire.
The Anglo-Zulu Wars-Lt-Col Bengough arrived in Natal with the 77th Foot in December 1878. He was placed in command of the 2nd Battalion Natal Native Contingent, which formed part of Durnford's Column, and which...
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History of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th-17th century.
"BY the end of the Dark Ages, Scotland, or most of our Scotland, was a kingdom. By the High Middle Ages, she had become a nation, and towards the end of the thirteenth century she was on the verge of a willing and friendly union with her neighbour nation, that for a hundred years had been at peace with her, an apparent friend. Then a child queen died: and Scotland, for the next three hundred...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Dublin is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Step back in time at Kilmainham Gaol, admire art at the Hugh Lane Gallery, and sample a pint at the Guinness Storehouse; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Dublin and make the most of your trip!
Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Dublin:
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