Ann Moore
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Gracelin O'Malley arrives in 1850s San Francisco, the City of Gold, in the thrilling final novel of Ann Moore's acclaimed historical trilogy With her two children, Gracelin O'Malley travels to post–Gold Rush San Francisco to meet the sea captain who has proposed marriage to her. But when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. Destitute in a city filled with gangs, disillusioned soldiers, and professional gamblers, Grace takes a position as a...
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Ann Moore brings to life the haunting beauty of nineteenth-century Ireland and its tumultuous, heartbreaking history in the first novel of her critically acclaimed trilogy Gracelin's father, Patrick, named her for the light of the sea that shone in her eyes. But joy and laughter leave the O'Malley clan when Gracelin is six-and-a-half and tragedy befalls the family. Less than a decade later, Gracelin must put her romantic dreams aside and marry a local...
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Gracelin O'Malley leaves her beloved homeland for a new life in America in the second captivating novel in Ann Moore's acclaimed Irish historical trilogy. Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O'Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corruption,...
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Gracelin O'Malley: As the potato famine devastates Ireland, Gracelin openly defies her English husband by feeding the desperate souls who come to their door, and secretly sides with the rebels who call themselves the Young Irelanders-including her beloved brother, Sean-as they fight to free their homeland from the yoke of English rule. Leaving Ireland: Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin takes her young daughter with her on an arduous transatlantic voyage...
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Eyelevel Books
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©2014
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English
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In the hot summer of 1942 a seven year old girl and her mother arrived on the Isle of Man from Manchester. A week's holiday in the tiny village of Sulby was to be an opportunity to spend time with her father, an airman stationed at nearby Jurby. But as war raged throughout Europe, their stay in Sulby turned from weeks to months, and eventually to years. This is the story of how one child adapted to the enormous changes that war brought, and how a...