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O'Brien, Flann

Contents: At swim-two-birds -- The third policeman -- The poor mouth -- The hard life -- The Dalkey archive.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2007

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Gratz, Alan

Summary: It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GRA

O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'CO

Harnett, Natalie S.

Summary: "Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go." (Gary Shteyngart) "We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet."The underground mine fires ravaging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Guadagnino, Gina Marie

Summary: Vividly recreates the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. In the 1830s, Maire O'Farren and her brother, Seanin, flee Ireland's poverty and political strife for a better life in America. Because of hostility to immigrants, Maire changes her name to Mary Ballard and assumes a British accent to secure a job as lady's maid to the rich and beautiful Charlotte Walden....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUA

Ross, Helen Klein

Summary: 1908. After her sweetheart dies of fever during the crossing from Ireland, sixteen-year-old Bridey gives up their baby for adoption. She takes a position as maid for the Hollingsworth family, caring for the children as if they were her own. Over the decades, the secrets of Bridey's past haunt the family. In the present day, a connection is made that brings these dark ghost stories into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Crisp, Marty.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic's maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRI

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OXF

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