Gerard Doyle
Author
Series
Paul West novels volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris--for Francophiles and Francophobes alike. A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint...
62) The grave
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine
Author
Series
Last roundup volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart. Chronicling nearly 25 years of history, The Dead Republic finds Smart working closely with, then violently severing ties to, legendary Hollywood director John Ford and eventually returning to Ireland in the 1950s. Desiring a quiet retired life in a small village north of Dublin, his life is further thrown into tumult by IRA uprisings...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In his essay on Tennessee Williams, the author reveals an artist profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, he examines a world of family relations, and in Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents illuminates an Ireland reinvented. From John Cheever's journals he makes fresh this darkly comic misanthrope and his intimates. Educating an intellectual woman, Cheever remarked, is like letting...
65) The Grim Company
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Grim Company, a shoddy band of misfits that includes a crippled Halfmage, two orphans, and a manservant, must fight the Magelord Salazar, the Augmentors, the White Lady, and demons in an effort to save the world.
66) High dive
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. Weaving together fact and fiction, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA explosives expert; Moose, a former star athlete gone to seed, who is now the deputy hotel manager; and Freya, his teenage daughter, trying to...
67) Syren
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Wolf Boy is sent on a Task by Aunt Zelda, while Septimus and the dragon, Spit Fyre, fly off to bring their friends home, but they all wind up on an island whose secrets are as dangerous as its inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Already fast becoming a classic among coming-of-age tales, John the Revelator has garnered praise from Nick Laird, Colm Tóibín, Roddy Doyle, and John Boyne, and is a critical darling in the U.K. This is the story of John Devine-stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeastern Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, Bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the "neighborly" Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled...
69) Fyre
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 7
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Septimus must battle the remnants of the Dark Domaine, which will remain until the power of the evil Two-Faced Ring is destroyed forever. To accomplish that, the ancient Alchemie Fyre must be relit -- a task that sends Septimus to the very origins of Magyk and Physik, testing both his skills, and his loyalties to ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, and Alchemist Marcellus Pye
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
E. Aster Bunnymund uses his martial arts skills, his network of tunnels, and the help of MiM, Sand Mansnoozy, and Nicholas St. North to battle the Nightmare King, Pitch, who has sent a venomous serpent to attack Bunnymund's royal guard of warrior eggs
71) The Darke Toad
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
DomDaniel returns in a hilarious escapade with the witches of the Port Witch Coven. In this tale that takes place between the stories told in Magyk and Flyte, the witches want DomDaniel's powerful Darke Toad-and will go to ridiculous lengths to get their hands on it. But first, Simon Heap must get his master to the Port Witch Coven's door, which may require a bit more Darke Magyk-and a much stronger stomach-than he bargained for. Is Simon up to the...
73) The telling pool
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author J.G. Ballard was a privileged British child living in China when World War II broke out. Separated from his parents, he was confined in a Japanese internment camp from 1942 to 1945. Empire of the Sun is his riveting eyewitness account of these years during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. It was made into a popular, award-winning movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Narrator Gerard Doyle's performance captures young Ballard's...
75) Carry Me Down
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This Man Booker Prize finalist is "a fast-paced psychological drama . . . of the pain of lost innocence and the price of pursuing the truth" (People).
John Egan is a misfit-"a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant"-who diligently keeps a "log of lies." John's been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember, it's a source of power but also great consternation for a boy so young. With an obsession for the Guinness...
76) The time thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Owen Simmons is working an easy gig at a Dublin newspaper, having left behind the life of war reporting. Then he finds an old photo, taken in Africa in the era of the Rwandan genocide. It will transport him into a wave of intense memories of dead bodies, orphans, the ravages of wartime epidemics-as well as a woman he once loved, and a shattering event in his past.
From an author who covered Africa for the Irish Times, this is a novel of friendship,...
Author
Series
Young Bond series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Future spy James Bond, a teenager in the 1930s, travels from hurricane-damaged Mexico to Lagrimas Negras, a Caribbean island containing a deadly obstacle course, as he tries to rescue two American children abducted by criminals
79) Real tigers
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they've messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The 'Slow Horses, ' as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations...
Author
Publisher
Tin House/Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Louis Drax lies in a coma in a hospital bed, re-living the events that led to his near-fatal fall into a ravine. Despite being attracted to the boy's mother Natalie Drax, Louis' doctor, Pascal Dannachet, begins reluctantly to question her version of Louis' accident and the apparent culpability of her missing husband. As the boy struggles to communicate from within his coma, the chilling truth emerges...