Jennifer Johnston
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award: Alone with melancholic memories of his past, a widower finds new life after striking up a friendship with a village boy
In County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergast's mansion has been witness to many of the most important years of his life, including his childhood,...
In County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Mr. Prendergast lives alone in the Big House of his village. A remnant of the long-gone days of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, Prendergast's mansion has been witness to many of the most important years of his life, including his childhood,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Moore is an upper-class Irish boy. All but ignored by his father and devoured by his mother, he is alone, lonely and bored. On his family's majestic and glorious farm, there is a young peasant boy, Jerry Crowe, equally alone in the world. The friendship is born. It deepens, in spite of class difference, amid the beauties and freedom of the Irish countryside. And then World War I breaks out. The boys enlist; Alex is to become an officer,...
4) The old jest
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Whitbread Literary Award for Best Novel: In the wake of the Great War, a young woman's life is turned upside down when she befriends a soldier of the grisly struggle on Ireland's horizon Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a seaside town not far from Dublin. Eighteen and about to go to university, Nancy has spent her summer consumed in part by unrequited thoughts of her first love, Harry, a man eight years her senior....
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For decades, Ralph has played the bad guy in his popular video game. In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart. As he explores exciting new worlds, he teams up with some unlikely new friends including feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz. Then, when an evil army threatens their world, Ralph realizes he holds the fate of the entire arcade in his massive hands.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For decades, Ralph has played the bad guy in his popular video game. In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart. As he explores exciting new worlds, he teams up with some unlikely new friends including feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz. Then, when an evil army threatens their world, Ralph realizes he holds the fate of the entire arcade in his massive hands.
11) Wreck-It Ralph
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For decades, Ralph has played the bad guy in his popular video game. In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart. As he explores exciting new worlds, he teams up with some unlikely new friends including feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz. Then, when an evil army threatens their world, Ralph realizes he holds the fate of the entire arcade in his massive hands."--Container....
