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2020., Random House, Inc. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest—a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.
![Actress [eBook] : a novel.](/Library/images/~imageCT101063.JPG "Actress [eBook] : a novel.")
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c2008., Harper Call No: Fic Coe Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of a young Irish girl who dives into sorcery and experiments with different magical traditions. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world; and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world, and how to pray to the moon. As she seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch.
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c2006., HarperCollins Call No: SC Fic Hyl Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old John Egan knows he has a special gift: he can tell when people are lying. Their untruths set his eyes stinging and his stomach heaving. John thinks that one day his gift will make him famous and guarantee entry into the the Guinness Book of World Records. Until then, he has to navigate his father's anger and his mother's abrupt and confusing changes between treating him like a little boy and a then like a man. When the family is forced from their rural cottage into the council-flat slums of Dublin, John discovers that the lies that make him sick are also shielding him from the truth that threatens to destroy his family. A portrait of a boy who is a contradiction between aching vulnerability and a menacing anger fuelled by pain, Carry Me Down is a raw, beautiful read, another intensely profound and powerful story from a writer to watch."--HarperCollins.ca.
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2006., H. Holt Call No: MYS Fic Bla Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Click here to view Series Title: Quirke Volume: 1
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2018., Hogarth Call No: Fic Roo Edition: First United States paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances's friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and marked by a sly sense of humour, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.
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Melville House Pub. Call No: Fic Joy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Art of the novellaSummary Note: He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband--closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature.
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c2010., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Doy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Last roundup Volume: v. 3Summary Note: At the end of 'Oh, Play That Thing', Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry's fascinating story into a film.
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-- A death in summer.2012., General, Picador Call No: MYS FIC Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Quirke Volume: 4Summary Note: On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite.
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[c1926], The Modern library Call No: Fic Joy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Modern library of the world's best books.
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2010., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Bla Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Quirke Volume: 3
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2015., Henry Holt and Company Call No: MYS Fic Bla Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Quirke Volume: 7Summary Note: Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central Dublin and bursts into flames. The police assume the driver's death was either an accident or a suicide, but Quirke's examination of the body leads him to believe otherwise. Then his daughter Phoebe gets a mysterious visit from an acquaintance: the woman, who admits to being pregnant, says she fears for her life, though she won't say why. When the woman later disappears, Phoebe asks her father for help, and Quirke in turn seeks the assistance of his old friend Inspector Hackett. Before long the two men find themselves untangling a twisted string of eventsthat takes them deep into a shadowy world where one of the city's most powerful men uses the cover of politics and religion to make obscene profits. In this enthralling book--his seventh novel featuring the endlessly fascinating Quirke--Benjamin Black has crafted a story of surpassing intensity and surprising beauty.
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By French, Tana2010., Adult, Stodder & Houghton Call No: MYS Fic Fre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dublin Murder Squad Volume: 3
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2011., W. W. Norton & Co. Call No: Fic Enr Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1994., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Bra Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2017], Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Boy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Cyril Avery is not a real Avery--or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community, and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamorous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from and--over his many years--will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit."--From publisher.
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2008, c2007., General, Macmillan Call No: Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mystery fiction. For ten years, newly-retired policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman brutally murdered, and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret. A favour for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child - her daughter has been found drowned in the same lake her stepfather died in years earlier. An accident, suicide... or murder? Margaret thought she could escape her past but the memories of her daughter - and of her killer - give her no peace and she finally returns to Dublin to face her demons. A chance encounter with a young girl in a graveyard leads her back to a man she never thought she'd see again and a mother with a grief to match her own.
