ireland

When two boys from a remote island off the Irish coast venture to the forbidden Island of Horses, they find a beautiful and tame black colt--and trouble with desperate men, but Pat's frail grandmother returns with them to the island to uncover its secrets.

Mandie, Celia, and Jonathan are visiting Europe and see a strange woman on ship. While visiting a linen mill in Belfast, Mandie saves a little girl trapped inside.

Alexandra Patterson, an appraiser of medieval relics, travels to Kildare to examine a reliquary box believed to have belonged to the revolutionary Saint Brigid, a fifth-century Irish priest and bishop, and finds inside a beautiful illuminated manuscript, the contents of which could alter the history of Christianity.

A collection of work from all phases of Yeats life including over 100 poems, eight plays, a sampling of his prose works and excerpts from his autobiographical and technical writings.

"Twelve-year-old Maddy is fed up. Since her parents died, she's been stuck with her grandparents in the tiny rural village of Blarney. She's sick of Ireland, sick of her stupid cousins, and, most of all, she's sick of her Granda's ridiculous warnings about the faerie people of T?r na n?g. But as the festival of Samhain Fesh approaches, a time of year when the human and the faerie world are said to overlap, strange things start to happen in the village. When the three-year-old next door disappears, kidnapped in the middle of the night by an eerie boy with emerald-green eyes, Maddy begins to think her Granda's stories may not be so silly after all"--Dust jacket.

"Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast ... finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: he'd had another family before Will's--a wife and two sons in England"--Provided by publisher.

Describes Ireland's geography, wildlife, history, government, economy, people, religion, and culture.