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Author
Series
Oliver's Well novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of three generations of a prominent small-town Virginia family headed by matriarch Mary Bernadette, as the clan's women chafe against Mary Bernadette's influence, until a scandal arrives that tests their loyalty.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
Author
Series
Daughters of Boston novels volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Graced with physical beauty, though shallow of heart, Charity O'Connor is a woman who knows what she wants. She sets her sights on the cantankerous Mitch Dennehy, editor at the Irish Times, who has unwittingly stolen her heart. And although the sparks are there, Mitch refuses to fan the coals of a potential relationship with his ex-fiancee's sister. But Charity has a plan to turn up the heat and she always gets what she wants--one way or another....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's fall 1987 and life as normal is ending for the Malone family. With their sterile Dallas community a far cry from the Irish-American Bronx of their youth, Pat and Anne Malone have reached a breaking point. Pat, faced with a debilitating MS diagnosis, has fallen into his drinking. Anne, his devoutly Catholic wife, is selected as a juror for a highly publicized murder trial, one that raises questions--about God, and about men in power--she has...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know that -- in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes -- their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11 "There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more than the women of the Keegan/O'Reilly clan. Kathleen Donohoe's stunning debut novel brings to life seven unsentimental, wry, and evocative portraits of women from a family...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This spellbinding novel by bestselling author Ann Napolitano is a poignant reminder of how connected we are to those we love, even when we cannot find the words to say it. The unforgettable story of three generations of an Irish American family,
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