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41) The fatal flame
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Reluctantly embroiled in a 1840s dispute between a corrupt Tammany Hall leader and an arsonist with an agenda, Copper Star Timothy Wilde finds his investigation challenged by his brother's decision to run for public office.
42) Of Irish blood
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Nora Kelly novels volume 1
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Fleeing a crushing affair, Nora Kelly enters the Left Bank society of early twentieth-century Paris, where she joins the struggle to free Ireland.
1903. Nora Kelly is talented and climbing the ladder of opportunity in Chicago, until a violent encounter with a dangerous man. She moves on Paris, mixing with couturiers and artists. But when she stumbles into the centuries-old Collège des Irlandais, she is challenged to honor her Irish blood and join...
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
45) The blade itself
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Danny Carter must face his past and risk losing the new, legitimate life he has built for himself when his best friend Evan, now out of prison for a job that they committed that went wrong, comes looking for the payback he believes Danny owes him for serving the time without implicating him.
46) Academy street
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"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation...
47) Riot
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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.
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Mad Morelands volume 4
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Irish-American journalist Megan Mulcahey goes undercover as a governess in Broughton House to discover if Theo Moreland, the Marquess of Raine, murdered her brother, but her plan backfires when love blossoms between them.
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"Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. In America, his long journey will eventually catapult him from the small, bigoted town of Winthrop, Pennsylvania, to the highest echelons of society, and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. And even as misfortune follows the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph...
50) Irish in America
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Examines the history of Irish immigration to the United States, discussing why the Irish came, what their lives were like after they arrived, where they settled, and customs they brought from home.
51) Everybody dies
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
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Matt Scudder is leading a comfortable life in New York until he signs on to help his dearest friend--the HellUs Kitchen hoodlum Mick "Butcher Boy" Ballou. Matt quickly discovers that the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty, and stained with blood. (August).
53) Irish eyes
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Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. When Callahan Garrity gets caught in a liquor store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy's Day party, one of her best friends is shot. Callahan and her House Mouse cleaning crew dive into...
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Justice Flanagan novels volume 1
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"Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians ... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve...
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 3
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Nuala Anne McGrail is almost more than any poor mortal man can handle without losing his sanity: her beauty causes shortness of breath in men of all ages, she's strong, she's smart, she's witty, she sings like an angel, and-to top it all off-she's psychic, or fey as they say in the Old Country.
But our man Dermot Michael Coyne, "accidental millionaire," part-time writer, and full-time worshiper of Nuala, seems to be bearing up pretty well in as much...
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Boston beat cop Danny Coughlin longs to step out of the shadow of his father, a legendary police captain. But his resolve is put to the test when he attempts to infiltrate the bands of anarchists and radicals threatening the city. Caught up in a vortex of change, Danny becomes entangled with an Irish immigrant maid and makes the acquaintance of Luther Laurence, a black man on the lam after a murder in Tulsa.
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"Tras un divorcio demoledor, Hope Dunne ha logrado encontrar la fuerza necesaria para sobrevivir centrándose en su profesión, la fotografía. Desde el refugio de su loft neoyorquino, Hope se ha acostumbrado a la soledad y a sentir emociones solo a través de su cámara. Pero todo su aparente equilibrio fluctuará cuando acepte un encargo inesperado y viaje a Londres para retratar a un famoso escritor, Finn O'Neill. Hope quedará cautivada por la...
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