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Famines Irlande Histoire 19e siècle Ireland Irish New York (State) History 19th century Irlandais New York (État) Histoire 19e siècle Irlande Histoire 1845-1852 (Grande Famine) New York (State) Social conditions 19th century New York (État) Conditions sociales 19e siècle Social conditions Women Women Social conditionsSummary: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BansheesMoore, Meg Mitchell
Summary: Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college's friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MooreSummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAIReid, Eliza
Summary: "Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REIO'Toole, Fintan
Summary: "We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.7082 O'TOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.7082 OTOO'Reilly, Séamas
Summary: Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'REILLY, SEAMAS O'REAnbinder, Tyler
Summary: "In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024