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Room : a novel [Book Club Set] / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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Inseparable : desire between women in literature / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: English literature; French literature; Lesbianism in literature.; Desire in literature.; Women in literature.;
© c2010., Cleis Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Lotterys plus one / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
When Sumac Lottery's estranged grandfather comes to live with her and her large family in their sprawling Victorian home, Sumac quickly realizes he's not the easiest person to get along with. But can she help him find a home where he belongs?LSC
Subjects: Children of gay parents; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Extended families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Room : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Jack and Ma live in a locked room that measures eleven foot by eleven, where she has been kept a prisoner for seven years. When Jack turns five, he starts to ask questions, and his mother tells him about the world outside. Told entirely in Jack's voice, this story is a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Boys; Escapes; Kidnapping; Mother and child; Psychopaths;
© c2010., HarperCollins Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Lotterys more or less / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-; Hadilaksono, Caroline.;
Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery considers it her job to make sure none of the Lottery celebrations are forgotten, especially now at Christmas time, and in her large, gay, and multiethnic family there are a lot of occasions for celebration in the house they all call Camelottery--but when a terrible ice storm hits Toronto, one of her dads, and her favorite brother cannot make it home from India, and it becomes increasingly difficult to hang on to the holiday spirit. LSC
Subjects: Children of gay parents; Extended families; Brothers and sisters; Ice storms; Holidays;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pull of the stars : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Medical personnel; Hospitals; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Wonder : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, 'The Wonder' - inspired by numerous cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, this book is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fasting; Murder;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Learned by heart / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world's greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the age"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Novels.; Lister, Anne, 1791-1840; Raine, Eliza, 1791-1860; Boarding schools; Mental illness; Racially mixed people;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Akin : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Retirees; Older people; Conflict of generations; Families; Kinship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Haven : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Skellig Michael (Monastery : Ireland); Monks; Wilderness survival;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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