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1) Prophet song
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's...
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's...
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 6
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English
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Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty,...
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 8
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English
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While celebrating the holidays in Dublin, Ireland, the O'Briens are in an uproar over matriarch Nell's rekindled romance with an old flame, while playboy Matthew O'Brien must convince Laila Riley, an older woman burned by love, to take a chance on him.
6) 56 days
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity...
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Publisher
O'Brien Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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It's the summer and Ciara's big sister is bored. But when they go to the zoo, there are loads of fun things to do and see- but each have very different of what's fun! While Ciara loves drawing the animals, her big sister prefers to take photographs with her phone. An engaging tale of the sister relationship and the struggle between nature and technology, this story brings a visit to the zoo to life with delightful illustrations. Ages 4+. --from Amazon....
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Publisher
John Brady Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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An old English ex-pat is strangled in his rural home. Were Travellers his only friends, really? Minogue is faced with what looks like a burglary gone wrong. Officers at he British embassy in Dublin are wondering too. But they are nervous for a different reason. -- From johnbradybooks.com
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Artemis Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"This holiday trip to Dublin had been very hard on detective Kathleen Doyle's husband--although he was making a monumental effort to disguise this fact--an unless she very much missed her guess, it was all somehow connected to the grisly murder on the station-house steps. That, and an African cab-driver who wore a jaunty tam o'shanter"--Back cover.
10) The chisellers
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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"The Browne brood is about to be relocated to the wilds of suburban Finglas when their tenement is demolished as part of an 'Inner City Renewal Plan.' With the help of her ambitious eldest boy and her persistent French suitor, Agnes copes with the ups and downs of 'rural' life, one unscrupulous gangster, and the son who is well on his way to breaking his mother's heart."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She...
12) Love
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that...
13) Holiday romance
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
She's meant to be catching flights, not catching feelings...Molly and Andrew are just trying to get home to Ireland for the holidays, when a freak snowstorm grounds their flight. Nothing romantic has ever happened between them: they're friends and that's all. But once a year, for the last ten years, Molly has spent seven hours and fifteen minutes sitting next to Andrew on the last flight before Christmas from Chicago to Dublin, drinking terrible airplane...
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