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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Notae latinae	W. M. Lindsay	The title shows the contents: a systematic description of abbreviations used in Latin manuscripts during the early medieval period. Every editor of Latin texts must have it. Though it is now nearl…	OL1109959W
Angels	Marian Keyes	Marian Keyes' sixth novel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible girl who suddenly just wants to let her hair down."We will shortly be landing at Los Angeles I…	OL14180W
Forever	Pete Hamill	Moving from Ireland to New York City in 1741, Cormac O'Connor witnesses the city's transformation into a thriving metropolis while he explores the mysteries of time, loss, and love.	OL15140040W
Orangutan	Colin Broderick	As a young Irish immigrant in New York City in 1988, Broderick spent his days working in the building trades and his nights carousing in Bronx Irish bars where he morphed into the orangutan of the ti…	OL15668109W
Pioneers	Steve MacDonogh	Tells the story of the Irish ancestry of Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham. "Her great-great grandfather who immigrated from the small village of Moneygall in Ireland to the Scioto Valley in Ohio, an…	OL16086453W
Barry Lyndon	William Makepeace Thackeray	Set in late 18th century Europe the adventures and misadventures of a minor member of the Irish gentry trying to better himself. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry is a clever young man, who learns the man…	OL16307W
Walking on dry land	Denis Kehoe	"Ana knows little about her real mother: she was taken away from Angola before she was two years old. She's got a name, Solange Mendes, and a photograph, which might be her mother, but there are two …	OL17272866W
1847, Grosse Île	André Charbonneau	xii, 276 p. : 23 cm	OL1732764W
On canaan's side	Sebastian Barry	Told in the first person, this narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to fle…	OL17747399W
Boston Jacky (Bloody Jack #11)	Louis A. Meyer	Jacky Faber has a habit of making waves--even when docked in her adopted city of Boston, where she is attending to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps a bit too much…	OL17767562W
Scars that run deep	Patrick Touher	Leaving his abusive Irish boys' school after 8 long years, Patrick though his troubles were over, but the adult world was a dangerous place for a nanve and damaged adolescent. Patrick moved to London…	OL17927806W
The temporary gentleman	Sebastian Barry	"In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--An Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings …	OL18180406W
Echoes of Irish Australia	Reid, Richard	A collection of twenty-three essays covering various aspects of Irish Australian history and culture.	OL18846046W
Brendan the Navigator	Jean Fritz	Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.	OL1931481W
The Houdini Girl	Martyn Bedford	The protagonist, British magician Fletcher "Red" Brandon finds the girl of his dreams,the witty,beguiling Rosa Kelly, a beautiful,independent,combative, fiery young Irish woman. After stealing his he…	OL1946435W
Songs of the Shenandoah	Reynolds, Michael K. (Novelist)	At the onset of the Civil War, Seamus heeds his wife's wishes to return to her beloved family farm in the South, where he takes a post as chaplain for General Stonewall Jackson's brigade. As Seamus m…	OL19708915W
The ninth hour	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…	OL19722458W
Bluestone & vine	Donna Kauffman	Pippa MacMillan is a legend on the Irish folk music scene. But when her voice requires a time-out, she's left wondering how - and where - to find happiness in the silence... Seeking answers, Pippa le…	OL19752524W
The road to McCarthy	Pete McCarthy	"Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history and pursue other far-flung Irish connections to their illogical conclusions, Pete McCarthy is thrust into a world-wide adventure that re…	OL20373831W
American skin	Ken Bruen	Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are all on a col…	OL2122066W