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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
2) Airman
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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
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Series
Gideon Crew novel volume 3
Language
English
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"Brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew is living on borrowed time when he is tasked by his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, to steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Gideon gets the parchment -- only to learn that hidden beneath the illuminated image is a treasure map dating back to the ancient Greeks. As they ponder the strange map, they realize that the treasure...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear and seems to be restless again.
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Language
English
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"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, Sarah Waters, and Angela Carter. May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid's Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the...
6) The colony
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American editon.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He doesn't know that a Frenchman follows close behind. Jean-Pierre Masson has visited the island for many years,...
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deserted by his magic, Fionn Boyle, Storm Keeper of Arranmore, sees the island beginning to wither and illness sweeping the land and must find a way to summon Dagda's army of merrows.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veteran of the American war in Afghanistan. The Ferriter family history dates back centuries on the remote Blasket Islands, and Ozzie--a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States--has retreated to the one place that might offer him peace from a war he cannot seem to leave behind. Beside the sea, with Ireland's...
9) Casting off
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English
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Rebecca Moray comes to an Irish island with her daughter Rowan to research a book on knitting and forget a haunted past, only to meet Sean Morahan, a crabby old fisherman, who she befriends, soon seeing that he too is haunted, as the two head on a collision course, each buffeted by waves of regret and recrimination.
Author
Series
Storm Keeper's island volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fionn Boyle, Storm Keeper of Arranmore, is facing the fight of his life. The terrifying, all-powerful sorceress Morrigan has risen from the dead and has sealed off the island from all outside help. Fionn is the only thing that stands between her and a dark future. He's got to find a way to defeat her. But there are some terrible choices in store as the dark sorcerer begins to take his nearest and dearest for her own. With only two magic candles left...
11) The lost witch
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
1922: Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the small island town of Evermore, Ireland. She longs for a child of her own, and allows herself to be seduced by Luc Knightly, head of the Knightly coven. When their child falls ill, Brigid taps into forbidden magic. 2022: The witches of Knight have been using chaos magic to widen the rift between the island and the Otherworld. Brigid awakens in this world with no memory of how she traveled into...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they became mothers themselves. Even as a child, Oona knew she wanted...