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Author
Publisher
Viking, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce's debut novel depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby-- the Amendola family's youngest son-- everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter's unexpected death. Bobby's mother Gail; his widow Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit;...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The accomplishments of pioneering American doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. "Medical Bondage" breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued...
824) Empire rising
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
704 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
825) A long stone's throw
Author
Publisher
Sterling & Ross Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
826) The IRA and England
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the background and development of the conflict between the Irish Republican Army fighting for the Catholics in Ireland and the British government forces supporting the Irish Protestants.
828) We were kings
Author
Series
The Boston saga volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are committed to stopping them. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O'Brien's cousin, Boston PD detective Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the typical retribution for IRA informers. Combined with a tip-off...
829) The star factory
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
ix, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing insights from geography, history, social psychology, sociology, and theology, Barry Aron Vann investigates the ways in which Scottish Calvinism affected the sense of identity and the migrations of native Scots first to Ulster and then to the American South. --from publisher description
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A first-ever biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu finally tells the whole story of one of the most prominent characters of the late 19th century whose trial for indecency heralded decadence's demise - and his own, "--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
835) Riot
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
837) Hope
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
838) Currents
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1854 eleven-year-old Bones is a slave in Virginia who sends a bottle holding her real name and a trinket from her long-lost father down the James River--the currents carry it far away, ultimately uniting the lives of three young girls.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nine years ago, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland tore apart two young lovers ... Now, in 1983, Davy McCutcheon and Fiona Kavanagh find themselves worlds apart. Davy, once a bomb-maker for the Provisional IRA, is serving a twenty-five-year sentence in a British prison. Having seen enough of death and violence, he wants nothing more to do with the struggle that cost him his freedom and his love. But old loyalties die hard and, despite himself,...
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