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Sandcastles
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Luanne Rice |
Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters--Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia--at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent… |
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Irish Hearts (Irish Rose / Irish Thoroughbred)
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Nora Roberts |
Irish Thoroughbred
It was a dream come true for Irish lass Adelia Cunnane--to work with her uncle, a horse trainer at Royal Meadows, one of the most renowned stables in the world. But there was a… |
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Prank
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Kathryn Lasky |
A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. |
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The walking people
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Mary Beth Keane |
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that i… |
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In like Flynn
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Rhys Bowen |
Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information abo… |
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Matters of the Heart
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Danielle Steel |
In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman's journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath… |
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Dance Lessons
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Aine Greaney |
A contemporary novel set in Ireland and greater Boston. Depicts the lives of three women and the intergenerational secrets they keep. |
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Torchlight
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Carol Otis Hurst |
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on h… |
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Fighting words
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A. S. Acheson |
In nineteenth-century New York City, as Irish immigrant Myles McReary prepares to fight the mighty Giancarlo Sperio, a renegade priest gives Myles a relic that he claims will disorient Giancarlo--a r… |
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Mary McClean and the St. Patrick's Day parade
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Steven Kroll |
In order to march with Mr. Finnigan in the St. Patrick's Day Parade, Mary must find a perfect shamrock in Manhattan in the middle of winter. |
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Blood Relations
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Chris Lynch,Chris Lynch |
Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a somewhat enigmatic Spanish-speaking loner at school. |
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The ninth hour
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Alice McDermott |
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears, unbidden, to direc… |
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Fiona's lace
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Patricia Polacco |
An Irish family stays together with the help of Fiona's talent for making one-of-a-kind lace in this heartwarming immigration story.
Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new… |
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Ashes of fiery weather
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Kathleen Donohoe |
A multigenerational tale about the passionate loves and losses of women in a family of firefighters traces their experiences spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after the September … |
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Someone
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Alice McDermott |
Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbo… |
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Annie Quinn in America
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Mical Schneider |
To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of thei… |
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The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh
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Janet Nolan |
On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by … |
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Everybody dies
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Lawrence Block |
Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. Then all hell breaks loose. "A taut noir story ... one of Lawrence Block's best" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfort… |
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Recuerdos de Un Verano
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Maeve Binchy |
It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a sum… |
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Mrs. Mike
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Benedict Freedman,Nancy Freedman |
A classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide, Mrs. Mike brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and masterfully evokes the tender, touching moments that br… |
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