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Belfast (Northern Ireland) Fiction Belfast (Northern Ireland) History Bombardment, 1941 Fiction Elephants Fiction Human-animal relationships Fiction Northern Ireland Belfast Ordnance disposal units Great Britain Fiction Political violence Northern Ireland History 20th century Fiction Soldiers Fiction Undercover operations Fiction Zoo keepers FictionWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction WalshMcCartney, Jenny
Summary: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCTaylor, Patrick
Summary: A British Army bomb disposal expert goes undercover to try to identify the source of the bombs being used by the Provisional IRA.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021