Summary: Kevin McArevey, a maverick Elvis-loving headmaster in a rough Belfast housing estate, sends his young pupils home with the philosophy to challenge violence. He uses critical thinking and a big dollop of humor to restore hope in a community, plagued by poverty and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.67 CONAlexander, Jeff
Summary: "The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AlexanderO'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'REGreen, Rod.
Contents: Why build the Titanic? -- Who built the Titanic? -- Grand designs -- The ships take shape -- Delayed departure -- Pride of Belfast -- Atlantic crossing -- Aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 GRESummary: "This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Ireland and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travelers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colorful magazine-style layout, this Ireland guidebook is just the tool you need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: APA Publications (UK) Ltd 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.621 PRIMitchell, Brian
Summary: The dynamic history of North West Ireland can be seen in the richness and variety of it surnames. Mitchell has attempted to compile concise but informative histories of those surnames which are most closely associated, through numerical strength or uniqueness, with North West Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 MITArnaldur Indridason
Summary: On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNAdams, Gerry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 ADAMoloney, Ed
Summary: "On condition that their stories be kept secret until after their deaths, two key paramilitary leaders on opposite sides of Northern Ireland's troubles spilled the bloody secrets of their long and violent war"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1988
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.341 MITJoyce, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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Summary: The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6 MeyerMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.6082 MOLFalley, Margaret Dickson
Contents: v. 1. Repositories and records -- v. 2. Bibliography and family index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FALLEDurning, William P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Irish Family Names Society 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 DUREllis, Peter Berresford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 ELLElliott, Marianne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.416 ELLMitchell, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets herheart on meeting one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016