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Irish Americans
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The Ride of Our LivesMike Leonard shares the life lessons he learned from his parents during their roadtrip across the United States in a rented RV. |
917.304 LEO |
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Teacher ManThe author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom and came to terms with the under |
CD B McCourt |
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Teacher ManCelebrated American author Frank McCourt recounts his thirty-year teaching career, and describes some of his unconventional teaching methods that have left an impact of his students. |
B MCCOURT |
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Angela's AshesMemoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the sterotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite f |
B MCCOURT |
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Ashes of RosesSixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died. |
FIC Auc |
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See You Down the RoadSixteen-year-old Bridget, member of an Irish Traveler community in the U.S., questions the traditions of her family's nomadic, criminal way of life and begins to consider breaking free. |
FIC WHI |
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MickHis friendship with two Hispanic students offers fifteen-year-old Mick an alternative to the drunken savagery of his brother and the narrow thinking of his Irish-American neighborhood in Boston. |
FIC Lyn |
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Angela's AshesBorn in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. |
CD B McCourt |
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Angela's AshesMemoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the stereotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite |
B MCCOURT |
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The Irish American Family AlbumTells the multicolored and often heroic stories of American immigrant groups through their own words and pictures. |
973.049 HOO |
