Roddy Doyle
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange...
4) Love
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that...
Author
Series
Rover adventures volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children.
6) Smile
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Approached by a man he does not remember who claims they attended secondary school together, a man on his own for the first time in years reluctantly reflects on unhappy memories from the past, including those of a brutal teacher who left him traumatized and struggling to hold fast to his sanity. By the award-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
7) Wilderness
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called 'a key barometer of the literary climate' by the New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney's--a comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work. Drawing on the full range of the journal thus far--from the very earliest volumes to the Chris Ware-edited graphic novel issue to the full-on Sunday-newspaper...