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The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with M©♭xico over the disputed R©Ưo Grande boundary. Ximena Salom©♭ is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband's memory and defend her country,...
82) The other side
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Vincent and Ellen MacNamara travel from Ireland to the American dream, as they imagine it, in the early part of the 20th century.
83) Chase
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In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.
86) Days without end
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Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.
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On a visit to the grave of grandparents Nuala Anne McGrail, who has psychic vision, notices the coffin in a nearby grave is empty. The grave is that of Jimmy Sullivan, a 1920s Chicago gangster. As Nuala's fiance, Dermot Coyne proceeds to investigate, he runs into lethal opposition. By the author of Irish Lace.
88) Irish tweed
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Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her daughter have taken up karate to fight off schoolyard bullies who are harassing the family, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is courted by a new fellow. Meanwhile Nuala Anne's husband, Dermot, pores over a memoir of a famine refugee whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for clues to the cause of the illness.
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"Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat that the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters...
90) September song
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Rosemarie O'Malley and her photographer husband Chucky become radicals in the 1960s, and seem to develop the knack for showing up at most of the decade's political hot spots.
91) Dead Irish
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In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss ? but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he...
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Finding Your Irish Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide is the ultimate resource to help you learn if the luck of the Irish is in your blood or not. This easy-to-use guide will teach you to make use of the many Irish family history records that have become available in recent years. Explore the best family history sources in Ireland, including birth, marriage, and death records; church records; census records; and much more. Finding Your Irish Ancestors...
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Katie and her family make shamrocks for each of her classmates to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but when Mrs. Connor shows a shamrock that looks very different, Katie is sad until, together, they learn the distinction between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover.
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After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership.
Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republican family...
95) Water Street
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In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
96) No safe harbor
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She came to America searching for her brother. Instead, all she's found is a web of danger. Lured by a handful of scribbled words across a faded letter, Cara Hamilton sets off from 1896 Ireland on a quest to find the brother she'd thought dead. Her search brings her to America, and to a man who claims to be a friend, Rourke Walsh. Cara reveals the truth about her purpose in New York, and is suddenly thrust into a world of subterfuge, veiled threats,...
98) Thomas Murphy
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An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half his age.
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The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.
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