Author: Eve Bunting Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545274435 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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When the pot of green shamrocks that Rabbit has been growing for St. Patrick's Day goes missing, he asks all the other animals if they have seen it.
Author: Jean Grainger Publisher: Star and the Shamrock ISBN: 9781914958557 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the streets of wartime Berlin, to the bombed out city of Liverpool, and finally resting in the lush valleys of the Ards Penisula, The Star and the Shamrock from USA Today best-selling author Jean Grainger is a must read WWII saga.
Author: Ronald Damien Malfi Publisher: Medallion Media Group ISBN: 1934755109 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 484
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Secret Service agent John Mavio infiltrates the infamous Hell's Kitchen in New York to shut down a ring of organized crime leaders in an elaborate counterfeit money operation, perhaps the worst in history.--From publisher's description.
Author: H. McColgan Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1477297014 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 379
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In 1860 sixty percent of Europe's cotton came from the Southern States. It was now being stopped by union blockades. The need to acquire the cotton became the economic savior for many Europe countries and they were willing to do anything to get it. Starting in 1830 the story will take the reader from a little town in Ireland across the Channel to London and back. As the battle between the Orange Order and the Catholic working man in Northern Ireland reaches the tipping point. Stopping it could hinge on the decision of one man. A judge who enlists the aid of two families and a Georgia Plantation owner to create a business that will help both sides. The importing and manufacturing of cotton goods. But first one man must be sentence to hang. Follow the lives of the families as their business grows. Love, treachery, murder and historical figures impact them as plots twist and turn. The race to try an influence England and France as to who to back in American Civil War and save their company is on. An cotton is the Key. The impact and the twist on lives is how history becomes legends.
Author: Ciaran Carson Publisher: Granta Books (Uk) ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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Shamrock Tea is an Irish drug that enables its users to see things not given to ordinary mortals. They can sense colours and sounds more vividly; they can penetrate the surface of paintings; they can cross time. The narrator, his cousin and a strange Belgian friend know that their lives are ruled mysteriously by the great van Eyck painting, The Arnolfini Portrait, and they have travelled in dream like moments through the painting into other times. They discover that each moment is connected to every other. But in the strange world of Shamrock Tea, no story can be straightforward. With a cast of characters that includes the gardener Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book will blow your mind.
Author: Michael Hughes Publisher: ISBN: 9781710385182 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
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A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb-sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck Wesson meets after he takes a travel assignment from his new boss, mysterious Silicon Valley entrepreneur Axel DeWilde. Chuck has been sent on a flight from San Francisco to Boston in order to demonstrate the Crimson Shamrock, a breakthrough portable communication device code-named the RedClove. However, Chuck begins to suspect that all is not as it seems after a robber tries to steal the device at the airport, and his flight later has to be diverted to the Twin Cities after a threat is made. After his meeting is relocated to the D.C. suburbs and does not go according to plan, Chuck flies back to California to discover who and what are behind his travails.
Author: Eileen P. Sullivan Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268093032 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 360
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In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analyzing more than thirty novels spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, Sullivan elucidates the ways in which Irish immigration, which transformed the American Catholic population and its institutions, also changed what it meant to be a Catholic in America. In the 1830s and 1840s, most Catholic fiction was written by American-born converts from Protestant denominations; after 1850, most was written by Irish immigrants or their children, who created characters and plots that mirrored immigrants’ lives. The post-1850 novelists portrayed Catholics as a community of people bound together by shared ethnicity, ritual, and loyalty to their priests rather than by shared theological or moral beliefs. Their novels focused on poor and working-class characters; the reasons they left their homeland; how they fared in the American job market; and where they stood on issues such as slavery, abolition, and women’s rights. In developing their plots, these later novelists took positions on capitalism and on race and gender, providing the first alternative to the reigning domestic ideal of women. Far more conscious of American anti-Catholicism than the earlier Catholic novelists, they stressed the dangers of assimilation and the importance of separate institutions supporting a separate culture. Given the influence of the Irish in church institutions, the type of Catholicism they favored became the gold standard for all American Catholics, shaping their consciousness until well into the next century.
Author: Frank Shamrock Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1613744684 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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Frank Shamrock may be the toughest man alive. The veteran cage fighter—his &“extreme fighting&” style involves aspects of boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, karate, Brazilian jujitsu, and even Southeast Asian Muay Thai—is the only person to win a title in all three major North American fight promotions. As Ultimate Fighting Champion he was widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. But Shamrock has led a life of profound, even Dickensian, difficulty. Born Frank Alicio Juarez III, he suffered through a childhood of abuse, neglect, and molestation before sliding into juvenile delinquency and petty crime. After finding some refuge in the penal system, he was eventually taken in by Bob Shamrock, a Northern California man who had fostered hundreds of lost boys—among them Frank's adoptive older brother, Ken, also a champion MMA fighter. An early marriage followed, and an unplanned pregnancy. When Frank couldn't afford to support his family, he turned to burglary and wound up in state prison—a fact he has never, until now, discussed publicly. But when he was released, Frank joined Ken in training as a cage fighter. For the next two decades he dominated the entire sport. This riveting book tells his whole story. Shamrock gives vivid accounts of his fights, both in and out of the ring. He explains his losses and discloses what enabled him to become a champion. He credits the fighters who taught and inspired him and points out the weaknesses of many who didn't. He details his beef with the UFC and the reasons behind his retirement. He tells all about the violence, the injuries, the booze—and how he overcame them all to become a champion in every sense of the word.
Author: Jean Grainger Publisher: Star and the Shamrock ISBN: 9781914958663 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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From rural Ireland, to the glitz of 1950's America, from the orange groves of Israel to the dark streets of post-war Liverpool, The World Starts Anew, is the fourth book in the best-selling Star and the Shamrock series.
Author: Eve Bunting
Author: Jean Grainger
Author: Jonathan Snowden
Author: Ronald Damien Malfi
Author: H. McColgan
Author: Ciaran Carson
Author: Michael Hughes
Author: Eileen P. Sullivan
Author: Frank Shamrock
Author: Jean Grainger