A Swift Pure Cry

siobhan-dowd

Teen & Young Adult

DEFINITIONS

The London Eye Mystery

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Puffin

Guggenheim Mystery

Robin Stevens

Penguin books, limited

National Blind Children's Society

Ireland 1984.After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, who is charming, eloquent, and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the center of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again.This is a story of love and loss, religious belief and spirituality—it will move the hearts of any who read it.

Swift Pure Cry

Literature & Fiction

DOUBLEDAY

Solace of the Road [Import] [Hardcover] by Dowd, Siobhan

David Fickling Books

<p>Holly Hogan hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blonde locks she feels transformed. She's not Holly any more, she's Solace.</p>

Solace of the Road

When Aunt Gloria’s son, Salim, mysteriously disappears from a sealed pod on the London Eye, everyone is frantic. Has he spontaneously combusted? [Ted’s theory.] Has he been kidnapped? [Aunt Gloria’s theory.] Is he even still alive? [The family’s unspoken fear.] Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, while time ticks dangerously by...

D Fickling B

Bog Child

<p>The extraordinary story of one long summer in the life of an 18-year-old boy caught up in the chaos and conflict of Ireland in the 1980s.</p>

Growing Up & Facts of Life

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After coming across the body of a young child who appears to have been murdered out in the bog, 18-year-old Fergus is compelled to put his own family dramas and personal difficulties aside in order to solve the mystery of a victim he doesn't even know in order to grant both of them the peace they are due.

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