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39 Clues Viper's Nest
Shaken by a shocking loss, Amy and Dan flee to an exotic land and trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military leader of mythic proportions. But just as the siblings begin to master the art of ancient warfare, they confront a dangerous enemy - the truth. With the stakes higher than ever, Amy and Da uncover a devastating secret about the Cahill family that changes everything.
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A Fools Errand
Dermot Healy’s fourth collection presents itself as a book-length poem that charts the annual migrations of thousands of barnacle geese between their breeding grounds in Greenland and their winter quarters on an island beside his home.
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A Goat's Song
In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up her RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.
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A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons
The story continues in the sixth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS is set in Hosseini's native Afghanistan and further reveals his marvelous gift for storytelling. Propelled by the same narrative instincts and emotional insights that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, it is a heart-wrenching chronicle of three decades of Afghan history as seen through the eyes of two courageous women, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and love.
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American Wife
A novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.
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Annie Dunne
Kelsha is a distant place, over the mountains from everywhere. You go over the mountains to get there, and eventually, through dreams.'
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Brooklyn
A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.
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Confessions of a fallen Angel
Following a near-death experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of the people closest to him.
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Coraline
When a young girl ventures through a hidden door, she finds another life with shocking similarities to her own. Coraline has moved to a new house with her parents and she is fascinated by the fact that their 'house' is in fact only half a house!
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Danny The Champion Of The World
The story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell.
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Demon Strike
Demons from the Dark Dimension pour through a portal in the wall of Pittingham Manor, the mid-point for an attack on high. They're planning an assault.
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Designer Genes
A young mother's fight to change her destiny ...
Emily Cusack has it all sorted. A loving husband, two adorable kids and a gorgeous home.
Emily Cusack has it all sorted. A loving husband, two adorable kids and a gorgeous home.
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Greg Heffley finds himself in a new year and school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller and meaner.
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Eightball Boogie
Harry Rigby likes a smoke, the easy life, and Robert Ryan playing the bad guy in late night black-and-whites. Sweet. But when the wife of a prominent politician is murdered in her best nightie, Rigby finds himself caught in a crossfire between rogue paramilitaries, an internal Garda inquiry and the heaviest blizzard of coke ever to hit the Northwest.
Flashing with razor-sharp wit and edgy, fast-paced plotting, Eight Ball Boogie is an enthralling page-turner that marks the debut of a potent new talent in crime fiction.
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Ellis Island
Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught up in the civil war. Nevertheless Ellie is extremely happy and fully embraces her sophisticated new life.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the nastiest and meanest farmers you could meet - and they hate Mr Fox! They're determined to catch him and lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. Clever Mr Fox has other plans and manages to outwit the nasty farmers.
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Fat God Thin God
In the 1970s, in an isolated, rural parish in north-west Philippines, James Kennedy began to question the beliefs which had sustained him through almost twenty years as a Columban priest.
Against a backdrop of revolution, martial law, the war in Vietnam and upheavals throughout the Catholic Church, James tells the dramatic, true story of how he fell in love and left the priesthood.
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Ghost Light
Available from June 3rd 2010. Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. An actress still in her teens
begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious, irreverent, beautiful, flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America.
begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious, irreverent, beautiful, flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America.
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Guernica
In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard and flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the centre of Basque culture and tradition.
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Happy Ever After?
When the honeymoon is over real life begins...Newly married Debbie, worried about mounting debts and with wedding bills still to pay, is at her wits' end with coke-sniffing, champagne-swilling hubby, Bryan.
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In the Forest
IN THE FOREST, set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade.
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Let The Great World Spin
An extraordinary new novel from bestselling and award-winning writer Colum McCann.
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Lovely Bones
Watching from heaven, Susie Salmon sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.
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Mother to a Stranger
Nan and Jim have a good, strong marriage. Each has their own career - she is a successful concert pianist and he is an archaeologist. Together they have been living a congenial life of self-sufficiency in the north-west of Ireland.
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Mr Toppit
And out of the Darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us. When the author of "The Hayseed Chronicles", Arthur Hayman, is mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, his legacy passes to his widow, Martha, and her children - the fragile Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly immortalised as Luke Hayseed, the central character of his father's books. But others want their share, particularly Laurie, who has a mysterious agenda of her own that changes all their lives.
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Mystery Man
A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases.
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Once In A Lifetime
The compelling new novel from the worldwide bestselling author. Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade and unique cherry-picked goods, is the jewel in the Irish town of Ardagh's crown.
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Over Nine Waves
These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells, clashes between the underworld, abductions, love affairs and feasts - which have fascinated the Irish mind for more than 2000 years...Most of them have an extraordinary, stark narrative sweep, with a marvellous sense of detail...Heaney writes directly and fluently...with great tact and skill.
Colm Tóibín, Sunday Times
Colm Tóibín, Sunday Times
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin.
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Palace Council
Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body.
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Past Imperfect
Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest.
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Paula Spencer
When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday.
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Picture of Dorian Gray Manga
A Graphic Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Novel
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Picture of Dorian Gray Penguin [Book & CD]
An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can't Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?
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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins.
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Push: A Novel
Precious is a 16-year-old who has never left Harlem. Her story is one of neglect and abuse and a fierce determination to acquire an education. Pregnant by her own father, she is forced to leave school.
Her defences and her world unravel as she struggles to gain control of her own life.
Her defences and her world unravel as she struggles to gain control of her own life.
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Q & A
Ram Thomas wins one billion rupees on Indian television, and is jailed for being a cheat. He describes his life in heartbreaking simplicity, illuminating a slumdog's sadness on the streets of Mumbai.
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Silent Crossing
Ellen McCarthy
New from the author of Guilt Ridden
A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Although he walks away unscathed the crash has claimed an innocent life.
Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in blood. As ...
New from the author of Guilt Ridden
A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Although he walks away unscathed the crash has claimed an innocent life.
Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in blood. As ...
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Skellig
When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical.
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Skulduggery Pleasant
Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.
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Skulduggery Pleasant Playing With Fire
With Baron Vengeous after the deadly armour of Lord Vile, and pretty much everyone out to kill Valkyrie, the daring detective duo face their biggest challenge yet. But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home!?
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Skulduggery Pleasant The Faceless Ones
Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the "funny" back in...um...funny series. That didn't really work, did it?
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Stone's Fall
In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since "An Instance of the Fingerpost", Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents.
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Testimony
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape.
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The Barrytown Trilogy
The Barrytown Trilogy consists of the first three novels by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and is first published as a trilogy in 1992. All of the three novels have been adapted into successful movies.
The three novels are: The Commitments (1987, film 1991), The Snapper (1990, film 1993), The Van (1991, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, film 1997). All three novels are focused on the Rabbitte family.
The three novels are: The Commitments (1987, film 1991), The Snapper (1990, film 1993), The Van (1991, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, film 1997). All three novels are focused on the Rabbitte family.
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The Bayou Trilogy
Collected in a single volume for the first time, Woodrell's three stellar novels featuring Det. Rene Shade, an ex-boxer turned cop, provide entrée into the Louisiana swamp town of Saint Bruno, a place where "tempers went on the prowl and relief was driving a hard bargain." Woodrell (Winter's Bone) injects Shade's life and various cases with both humor and brutal violence. In Bright Lights (1986), the investigation into a city councilman's murder mushrooms into a corruption scandal, with Shade feeling pressure from above for a quickand predeterminedresult.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.
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The Drivetime Diaries - Audio CD
For the first time RTÉ Radio is making available a selection of 18 of the most popular pieces from Joe O’Connor’s weekly radio column on Radio One’s Drivetime show. The pieces include humourous vignettes on life and living in contemporary Ireland, and Joe’s wry observations on the people and politics of our times.
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The Great Lover
In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him.
What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure -- and curse -- of charisma.
What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure -- and curse -- of charisma.
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