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PRESENT DAY DUBLIN Lucy Young travels to Dublin to search for her ancestor Hugh Gavin who emigrated from Dublin to Boston in 1720. She brings with her a 300- year-old diary written by the Duchess of Alden of Boden Castle, Dublin. When Lucy contacts Professor Patrick Ralley of Trinity College Dublin to donate the Alden diary to the university, she asks for his help to research Hugh Gavin's life and her family's possible connection to the castle. In their search they will uncover a secret that has lain hidden for three hundred years. DUBLIN, 1719 Abigail Harton's father is a medical doctor who has used the last of his family's savings to fund a charitable hospital in the city. He has saved the...
The arrival of a letter delayed by 33 years sparks off a quest that leads both on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and right to the heart of France today. Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter – thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a recording contract to The Holograms, in which Alain played lead guitar. Overcome by nostalgia, Alain is tempted to track down the members of the group. But in a world where everything and everyone has changed...where could his quest possibly take him?
What’s your dance? That’s the question everyone is asking about this new children’s book by Shannon D. H. Montague, with inventive illustrations by Emily Cornacchio. Vivienne, Rio, Evan and their friends enjoy lessons at school with their teacher, Miss Peters. They work diligently to learn about numbers, read books and speak French. But when the Head of School, Ms McKune, makes her weekly visit to their class with her strict rules, the learning loses its fun. Vivienne, much to Ms McKune’s dismay, takes matters into her own hands and decides that it is time to add some dancing to their daily routine! “Thanks to Miss Peters, my costume appears, As if this moment were planned for years. Quickly I find my Irish dance shoes. Black and sparkling, I’ve nothing to lose!” With each one of the children poised and ready with a distinctive dance to share, how will Ms McKune react to these new artistic additions in her school? Could she finally realise that the fun is part of learning too...? You never know, once you get to know Vivienne and her story, you could be inspired to dance too!
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The fascinating story of one of the Eighteenth-century's most extraordinary women. Poetess, fallen woman and wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Through humour and intelligence - and her skilful use of scandal, most notably in her Memoirs - she survived on the very fringes of respectability. This biography tells of a woman determined to be known as a writer on equal terms with men.
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These dark and exhilarating narratives, reminiscent of Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories, won the 2015 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
This book is a sequel to Rural development : putting the last first (AL. 1719, BRN 32006). It explores methods and approaches of participatory rural appraisal (PRA), which, because of its wide application, should, according to the author, be changed to participatory learning and action (PLA).
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