ireland

"Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead"--Jacket flap.

"Shay meets a friendly ghost named Bridget while visiting her uncle in Ireland and sets out to discover what happened to her friend, but how the mystery ends is up to the reader"--Publisher.

"One day, Declan Lynch, a regular teenager, starts hearing a girl's voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see her. Though he's not certain the girl, Rebecca, is real, Declan finds himself falling for her. She shows him visions of places and people he has never seen -- places he feels compelled to find in hopes of meeting her. His quest takes him to County Sligo, Ireland, and its 'thin places,' spots where two worlds, two times or places, seem almost to touch. His slightly crazy Uncle Seamus takes him in, as Declan's search has him wondering which world he belongs in--his, or the one belonging to a girl who might not even be real."--OCLC.

"For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission. They tell her she's the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she's lucky to be alive. But she doesn't feel lucky. She feels...lost. With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O'Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life...and start a new one"--Provided by publisher.

"After so much danger, Nessa and Anto can finally dream of a happy life. But the terrible attack on their school has created a witch-hunt for traitors, boys and girls who survived the Call only by making deals with the enemy. To the authorities, Nessa's guilt is obvious. Her punishment is to be sent back to the nightmare of the Grey Land for the rest of her life. The S?dhe are waiting, and they have a very special fate planned for her."--Amazon.com.

In Ireland with her brother during the filming of a movie based on her grandmother's wildly popular Elementia trilogy, Iris, seventeen, decides to shut down production and end the annoying craze.

Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland, when he suddenly receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia.

In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men with the last one putting her in the hospital. After physically healing she needs to get out of London and find a quiet place to heal mentally. She finds the ruins of a cottage on the west coast of Ireland that dates back to the Great Famine and decides to buy it. After work on the house is done she invites friends to come help her celebrate over a weekend. One of her friends pulls out a Ouija board on the last night and unleashes something sinister from Irelands' haunted past that reaches back in time to pagan times.

"For Cara and her family, every October is inexplicably accident prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just cuts and scrapes. But this accident season--when Cara, her ex-stepbrother Sam, and her best friend Bea are seventeen--none of that will make a difference. Because the lines between fantasy and reality are starting to blur, and some secrets are threatening to be revealed." -- page [4] of cover.