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Fasting Fiction Girls Fiction Great Skellig Island (Ireland) Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Ireland History To 1172 Fiction Ireland Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Monks Fiction Nurses Fiction Skellig Michael (Monastery : Ireland) Fiction Wilderness survival FictionKennedy, Emma
Summary: "This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds a close relationship with Anthony. Later, the villagers discover one of the Germans on the plane has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENLiviero, Gemma
Summary: 1915. In German-occupied Belgium, a tragic loss forces Josephine Descharmes to navigate dangerous new territory. By day it's compliance, serving German officers at the Hotel Metropole. By night it's resistance, working with her brothers underground to help Allied soldiers and civilians cross the border into Holland. Both paths put her and her family at great risk. As Josephine struggles to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVPenney, Stef.
Summary: 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PENPenney, Stef
Summary: A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENKennedy, Louise
Summary: "Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KennedyKennedy, William
Summary: His life radically changed by an encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, journalist Daniel Quinn embarks on a turbulent journey marked by such historical events as the Albany race riots, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother’s desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LIVKerney, Kelly A.
Summary: A novel that spans a hundred years of Guatemala's tumultuous history tells the stories of four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl in 1902.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KERDonoghue, Emma
Summary: A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONHooper, Emma.
Summary: Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOOBrodie, Emma
Summary: The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Jesse Reid's intricate guitar riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining performance. That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show. Jane Quinn is a Bayleen Island local whose music flows as naturally as her long blond hair. When she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODonoghue, Emma
Summary: Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks, young Trian and old Cormac, he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the island now known as Skellig Michael, an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Lib Wright, a young English nurse trained by legendary Florence Nightingale, arrives in an impoverished Irish village with a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for four months. With tourists thronging to see the child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled community looks to an outsider to bring the truth to light. Lib's job is simple: to stay in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Emma Donoghue presents a novel based on the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. As their friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: Mary Saunders desire to lead a life of luxury leads her to prostitution at a young age, until she is taken in by a childhood friend of her mother's, who tries to help Mary turn over a new leaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DONDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020