Mary O'Connell

• Feb-2003
• / Literary
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Praised for her gift for mordant wit, which at its best is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore (The New York Times Book Review), O'Connell draws upon the lives of the saints to show the divine at work in even the most mundane lives. Readers of all faiths (or...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Sandinista Jones is a high school senior with a punk rock name and a broken heart. The death of her single mother has left Sandinista alone in the world, subject to the random vulnerability of everyday life. When the school system lets her down, her ...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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Gilmore Girls meets Wuthering Heights in this whip-smart and poignant novel For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English ...

• Nov-2019
• / Historical
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In 19th century Ireland - just one generation after the Great Famine had left a million dead and scattered the Irish across the globe - a new crop failure threatened the land and its people. This time round, a radical idea began to take hold: that fa...