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"In his debut bestseller, Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the story of what came first." "Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and '70s. Despite his loving parents' best efforts, John's attempts to meet...
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Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife.
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[2000]
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In the twilight of his life, Peter O'Banyon looks out from the Massachusetts lighthouse that was his home and remembers the past. Orphaned at age 10, he came to the Port Hope Lighthouse to live with his uncle Billie. A solitary man, Billie had worked hard to amass a fortune and returned to Ireland with his wife and son, only to lose them. His son died in the influenza epidemic, and his wife drowned on the voyage back to the U.S. When Peter lost his...
5) Sandcastles
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Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, brilliant photographer and sculptor John Sullivan, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, hearing of Regis's impending marriage, John has ended his self-imposed exile and returned to the family he's always loved more than anything on earth. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely...
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2016.
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"A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11 "There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more than the women of the Keegan/O'Reilly clan. Kathleen Donohoe's stunning debut novel brings to life seven unsentimental, wry, and evocative portraits of women from a family...
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Daughters of Boston novels volume 1
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She's found the love of her life. Unfortunately, he loves her sister. When Collin's affections shift, it threatens to tear the proper Boston family apart. Can this be part of God's plan for their lives?
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Two criminal empires together control all of New England.
Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.
Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and...
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[2004]
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The tender and perceptive debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful, about three generations of a large Catholic family jarred into crisis by an unexpected pregnancy
“This stunning . . . exquisite, skillfully written gem addresses serious issues–e.g., guilt vs. loyalty, the past vs. the present—[but] remains hopeful and includes ample doses of humor...
“This stunning . . . exquisite, skillfully written gem addresses serious issues–e.g., guilt vs. loyalty, the past vs. the present—[but] remains hopeful and includes ample doses of humor...
10) The silver boat
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Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
11) A passion denied
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c2009
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Now that she has grown up, Elizabeth O'Connor wants more from her spiritual mentor, John Brady, than just his friendship and guidance, but John's past, with its horrifying secrets, will not allow him to return her love.
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[2019]
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"Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother—Agnes Miller Christie—is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life...
13) Cashelmara
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1974
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A saga about a wealthy and titled English family in the ninteenth century whose member's fates and fortunes are all linked to Cashelmara, their Irish country estate.
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Daughters of Boston novels volume 2
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c2008
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Graced with physical beauty, though shallow of heart, Charity O'Connor is a woman who knows what she wants. She sets her sights on the cantankerous Mitch Dennehy, editor at the Irish Times, who has unwittingly stolen her heart. And although the sparks are there, Mitch refuses to fan the coals of a potential relationship with his ex-fiancee's sister. But Charity has a plan to turn up the heat and she always gets what she wants--one way or another....
15) The Blessings
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2014.
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When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come.
16) Hot stuff
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Bartender Cate Madigan's roommate has gone missing, leaving behind a bullmastiff named Beast. At work, an ex- cop name Kellen McBride has made Cate's bar his nightly hang-out. When her apartment is later ransacked, she realizes that Kellen may know more than he's saying, but she also wonders if he has an ulterior motive for getting close to Cate.
18) Charming Billy
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A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
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