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Families England History 20th century Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Friendship New York (State) New York Drama Murder Investigation New York (N.Y.) Drama Private investigators Roommates New York (State) New York Drama Social classes England Fiction Summer Juvenile fiction Television playsTaylor, Patrick
Summary: After landing in jail for making bombs for the IRA, Davy McCutcheon escapes and seeks out his ex-fiancee, who has tried to move on with her life in Vancouver, Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYMathews, Brendan
Summary: Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBarry, Sebastian
Summary: Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARTaylor, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYHiggins, Jack
Summary: Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses--and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: Follow the struggles and triumphs of the Clifton and Barrington families into the 1960's: the construction of a luxury ocean liner which comes under sabotage from the IRA; the Clifton family's entry into the London art scene; and a sweeping ending with all of the Barringtons and the Cliftons aboard the ship for its maiden voyage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2014
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Summary: Belfast. Spring 1981. Hunger strikes. Riots. Power cuts. A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera.A young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things — and people — aren't always what they seem.Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It's no easy job — especially when it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Profile Books Ltd 2012
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Summary: Claire Randall is a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743. She is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD OUT RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ou 1Summary: Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOMDelaney, Frank
Summary: The story of Charles O'Brien, an Irish-Anglo itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860 and his claims of dealings with famous people such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and founders and leaders of the Sinn Fein and the IRA.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELParker, Robert B.
Summary: The story of two Irish-American families. It begins in Ireland in 1920 when Capt. Sheridan of the IRA has an affair with Hadley Winslow, wife of a Boston financier. To get him off her back she betrays him to the British. He escapes, emigrates to America and comes calling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARHamza, Nina
Summary: Samira knows this is going to be the worst summer ever. Her best friend, Kiera, ditched her for the cool girls. Her parents and older sister are taking a trip to India, so Sammy is staring down endless weeks spent with Imran, her little brother, and her Umma. To top it all off--literally!--her house gets TP'd. The TP'ing upsets Imran, who is convinced that they're being targeted because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMHiggins, Jack.
Summary: The classic Jack Higgins thriller—now available as an ebook An ex-IRA soldier must save a priest targeted for elimination to gain absolution for his violent past Everyone has demons to overcome, but Martin Fallon has more than most. A ruthless hitman and executioner for the IRA, Fallon is haunted by a mistake that led to the explosion of a school bus full of children. When he's threatened by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Integrated Media LLC 2010
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Summary: "Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2015Higgins, Jack
Summary: An Israeli terrorist abducts the U.S. president's illegitimate daughter--born of a liaison during the Vietnam War--and threatens to kill her if the U.S. does not attack Arab countries. The president hires a former IRA terrorist to rescue her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: The newest novel from Ronald H. Balson, the international bestselling author of Once We Were Brothers , finds private investigator Liam Taggart returning to his childhood home for an uncle's funeral, only to discover his death might not have been natural. When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Northern Ireland for the funeral--a home he left years ago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BALSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLBerry, Flynn
Summary: "A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Berry 2021Summary: Aging private detective Ira Wells (Carney) teams up with kooky Margo Sterling (Tomlin) to solve the murder of Carney's old detective partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LATHiggins, Jack
Summary: An imprisoned IRA soldier sets out to make a daring heist--with the fate of Northern Ireland's Republican cause resting in the balance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012