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Summary: The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCOURT, FRANK MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: An unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland told with humor and grace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.2 MCCDougherty, Michael Brendan
Summary: "National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a mediation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father. The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up soon after he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He loved his mother but longed for his father, who only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio DoughertyEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGALeonard, Mike
Summary: An account of the author's trip across America from Phoenix to Chicago with his eccentric elderly parents in an RV describes how they revisited significant places, people, and events in their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 917.304 LEOO'Brien, Michael Joseph
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1979
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.341 OBrieMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs and field trips. As he struggles to find his way in the classroom, he spends his evenings drinking with writers and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCOURT MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio McCourtMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The third installment of McCourt's memoirs (after Angela's Ashes and 'Tis) covers his thirty-year teaching career in New York City's public high schools.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 371.1 McCouMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: "'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOURT, FRANK MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The author's memoir of his journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 974.71 MCCDonleavy, J. P. (James Patrick)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.708 DONMacDonald, Michael Patrick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Pub. 2001