Roddy Doyle
1) Love
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Language
English
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"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
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
3) Smile
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt...
4) The guts
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle's fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments. In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar collective of Irish youths determined to bring the soul...
Author
Series
The last roundup (Roddy Doyle) 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
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure"--
8) Bullfighting
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his ability to fully capture the hearts of his characters. Bullfighting, his second collection of stories, offers thirteen bittersweet takes on men and middle-age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today. Moving from classrooms to local pubs to bullrings, these tales feature an array of men taking stock and reliving past glories, each concerned with loss in different ways-of...
Author
Series
Paula Spencer novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
12) The Commitments
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A young musician has a vision of putting together a soul music group in Dublin, and puts an ad in the local paper to find his talent.
13) The van
Author
Series
Barrytown novels volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
English
Author
Series
Rover adventures volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
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.
Author
Series
Rover adventures volume 3
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Mister Mack gets arrested for supposedly robbing the bank, it is up to Rover the dog and the Mack children to rescue him and find their Guinness-record-breaking mother who is running around the world.
Author
Series
Rover adventures volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing! Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down? While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of the BFB, via Granny Mack's backpack, the post lady's basket and a plane bound for Africa, it looks like the Gigglers are about to run out of poo ...And without an urgent delivery from Rover, how will they be able to give the Giggler Treatment to grumpy adults and help kids all...
Author
Series
Rover adventures volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Rudolph comes down with the flu, it's up to Rover the dog and the Mack children to help Santa complete his Christmas deliveries.
20) Paula Spencer
Author
Series
Paula Spencer novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English