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2) Someone
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1010L
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"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2013]
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Wyoming Territory, 1870. Leaving Ireland Katie Macauley arrives in Hope Springs, a settlement harboring violence and a deep hatred of the Irish. Now she must decide whether to stay and give her heart a chance at love, or return home and give her soul the possibility of peace.
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An unforgettable novel about a young woman's journey into the heart of the unknown from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Callie James learned to survive in the squalid back alleys of Dublin. Tough, spirited, and possessed of a singular beauty, she was sent to New York to find her fortune. But everywhere she turned there were men who saw only what they wanted to see in her. Byrch Kenyon offered friendship and encouragement,
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Ian O'Connor spends his days in the purgatory of a New York textile factory, enduring the dangerous conditions to keep his family afloat. Biddy Dillon has lost her home and her family. When she meets Ian, she begins to believe in the possibility of good things to come. When tragedy conspires to pull the couple apart, they must decide if they have a future together.
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"Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew 'how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil, ' Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary...
10) The family way
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2013
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"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...
11) Bless the bride
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
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With Molly Murphy's wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan approaching, the Irish sleuth heads to the countryside where his mother advises her on a bride's proper place. She has already promised that she'll settle down after marrying, but that doesn't mean she can't squeeze in one last case.
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The place is Albany, New York. The year is 1936. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and their spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned--again--by his father, a charmer and a con artist. With no money and no family willing to take them in, the LaPointes manage to create a fragile nest at 238 North Pearl Street. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the...
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In a multidimensional, intricately wrought narrative, Myla Goldberg leads us back to Boston in the early part of the twentieth century and into two completely captivating worlds. One is that of Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston. She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 1
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Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, and her identity, for the anonymous shores of America. When she arrives in new York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in...
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2017.
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Kathy McKeon was just nineteen and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service. Rose deemed her "Jackie's girl" as she was always by her side. This is a look at the private life of Jackie Kennedy and a moving story of a young woman finding her identity in a new country.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2008
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"It's wintertime in early 20th-century New York City, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her detective agency, she is snowed in with work. Molly's beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, would make a great associate -- but before he can agree, they stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in snow-covered Central Park. Since whe has lost her ability to speak, the authorities are about to send the woman to an asylum...
19) In a gilded cage
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2009
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Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.
