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Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
by Michael Patrick MacDonald  Publisher Comments In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the normal life of...
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Great Escape : Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (06 Edition)
by Kati Marton Publisher Comments Traces the early twentieth century journey of nine men from Budapest--including Edward Teller, Robert Capa, and Michael Curtiz--who fled fascism and anti-Semitism to seek sanctuary in America, where they made pivotal contributions to such causes as the...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael P Macdonald 
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All...
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The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s
by John Nieto Phillips Publisher Comments When the United States declared war on Spain in 1898, rumors abounded throughout the nation that the Spanish-speaking population of New Mexico secretly sympathized with the enemy. At the end of the war, The New York Times warned that New Mexico's...
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
by Kati Marton Publisher Comments Extravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how...
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North of Ithaka: A Journey Home Through a Family's Extraordinary Past
by Eleni Gage Publisher Comments Leaving behind a sparkling social life and a successful journalism career, Eleni Gage moved from New York City to the remote Greek village of Lia. Lia is the same village where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, and which her father...
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Cut from Whole Cloth: An Immigrant Experience
by Richard J Franke Publisher Comments Accomplished businessman Richard J. Franke offers in Cut from Whole Cloth an intimate account of the American immigrant experience, recounting the moving story of his grandparents' struggle to build a new life in turn-of-the-century America. Franke...
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The European Texans (Texans All)
by Allan O Kownslar Synopsis "The European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
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Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity
by Russell A Kazal Publisher Comments More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American...
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How the Scots Made America
by Michael Fry Publisher Comments International praise for Michael Fry: "His range is striking, his breadth of interest amazing." - Times Literary Supplement "In all his prolific writings he brings a historian's depth to journalism and a journalist's popularism to history... frequently...
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
by James H Webb Publisher Comments More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster...
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The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today
by Odd S Lovoll Publisher Comments “Odd Lovoll provides fascinating and important insights about the distinctive presence in American life of Norwegian immigrants and their ancestors. Then again, I might be biased.” —Walter F. Mondale, Norwegian American and former U.S...
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Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America
by Peter Quinn Synopsis In this remarkable collection of writings chronicling the author's exploration of his own past, Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose culture and values now play such a central role in all of our identities as...
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The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
by Ernestine Bradley Publisher Comments Growing up in Bavaria during World War II, Ernestine Bradley came to know wartime dislocations and food shortages, along with the challenges of taking care of her siblings while her mother was ill. The men of her hometown were away at war, but their...
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Under the Rose: A Confession (Cross-Cultural Memoir)
by Flavia Alaya Publisher Comments Flavia Alaya was 22 years old, a radiant but sheltered Italian American on a Fulbright in Italy, when she met Father Harry Browne. When the attraction that began in a cafe in Perugia grew too compelling to resist, they embarked on a relationship that...
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Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
by Ursula Hegi Publisher Comments Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them. Like Studs Terkel in his classic...
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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments So, Tom That Went and Tom that would come back! is how Nora Lynch greeted the young American Thomas Lynch in 1970, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the cottage that his great-grandfather--another Thomas Lynch--had left nearly a century...
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A True Picture of Emigration
by Rebecca Burlent Publisher Comments On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western...
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism, in his own life and beyond. When David Trimble claimed recently that Irish republicans needed house-training, I felt the echo of my master's voice down through the ages, that of the...
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On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America
by Don Lago Synopsis WHEN his father developed Alzheimer's disease, Don Lago realized that the stories and traditions of his Swedish ancestors would be lost along with the rest of his father's memories. Haunted by this inevitable tragedy, Lago set out to fight back against...
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