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Kent Gramm, D. Scott Hartwig

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Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology

This volume of essays by renowned Civil War historians provides a comprehensive history of the legendary Iron Brigade and its service to the Union.Fighting in the Civil War for the Union Army of the Potomac, Brigadier General Rufus King's Wisconsin Brigade was the only all-Western Brigade to fight for the Eastern armies of the Union. Known as "The Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the regular army's dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, t...

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Alan Nolan, Shane Cluskey

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The Grand Central Cinema Club

Dublin, 1937At the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street, the children of Dublin watch their Hollywood heroes on the silver screenWhen Sylvie meets tenement boy Jem and his daredevil sister Juno, they bond over their love of movies. But an accident means Juno will miss the latest film at the Grando, so they hatch a plot to hijack the movie reel and do a top-secret private showing instead!Meanwhile, a sneak thief called T...

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Alan Nolan, Shane Cluskey

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The Grand Central Cinema Club

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...

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Alan Nolan, Shane Cluskey

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Molly and Bram

Dublin, 1858BRAM STOKER: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)MOLLY MALONE: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!When Bram runs away from boarding school and meets streetwise Molly, he finds all the excitement he's ever wanted. Together they explore the city, with its Sackville Street Spooks, hoodlums and heroes – and let's not forget the very creepy Count Vladimir Grof-Constantin de Lugosi.

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Alan Nolan

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Christopher Simpson

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Grand Central Cinema Club

Dublin, 1937. When Sylvie meets tenement boy Jem and his daredevil sister Juno, they bond over their love of movies. But an accident means Juno will miss the latest film at the Grando, so they hatch a plot to hijack the movie reel and do a top-secret private showing instead! Meanwhile, a sneak thief called The Magpie has his eye on the Grand Central Cinema too. Can Sylvie and Jem revive Juno's ailing spirits by bringing the movies to her? And will they foil The Magpie's feather-brained pla...

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Alan Nolan, Shane Cluskey

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Molly and Bram

Dublin, 1859Bram Stoker: Boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)Molly Malone: Part-time sneak thief and full-time Dublin legend!When Bram and his best pal Molly meet a lonely boy called Sanjit in Dublin's Natural History Museum, they can see he needs some friends. So they, along with Molly's gang, The Sackville Street Spooks, take him under their wing.Sanjit tells them the tale of the dread (and very dead) pirate, Captain Lamprey and his links to th...

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Alan Nolan, Shane Cluskey

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Molly and Bram

Dublin & London 1859: A Tale of Two CitiesBram Stoker: boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)Molly Malone: part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!Best friends Molly and Bram are on a mission in London.Famous writer Charles Dickens has been kidnapped!The pals set out to search the darkest corners of the city. On their travels, they meet all sorts of characters, among them a foul-mout...

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Alan Nolan

Life could be better for Conor Corcoran. Class bully Damian Deegan is always teasing him about being small and having no friends – when in fact Conor has the only friend he needs in Charlotte 'Charlie' Finch, the toughest girl in school.But when Conor and Charlie accidentally uncover a prehistoric man who was flash-frozen in a block of ice, life suddenly gets a bit too interesting!How long can Conor keep his huge, hairy (and rather smelly) new 'uncle' a secret from...

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Alan Nolan

Introducing the first illustrated novel about hurling!Something has to be done…Ray is getting tired of losing every match he plays with his team, the Ballybreen Terriers. Not only are they constantly at the bottom of the league, they have to face the gloating of rival Dennis 'Dirty Den' Conway.Before they become the laughing stock, Ray persuades Fintan Heffernan, ex-star player of U10's to leave his early retirement and computer games to help bring...

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Alan Nolan

Sam Hannigan runs an animal shelter in Clobberstown, Co. Dublin with her creepy-crawlie-crazy best friend Ajay Patel and her just-plain-crazy granny Nanny Gigg. Oh yes, and her big bully brother Bruno.When a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep of Hannigan's Haven, Sam and the gang are astonished to discover that it contains a living, breathing Dodo bird! Where did the dodo come from, who sent it, and, most importantly, how is it not extinct? Being a lover of all animals, Sam...

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Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan

A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately,...

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Alan Nolan

Animal lover and champion Irish dancer Samantha Hannigan is having a truly woof week. She and her best friend Ajay were messing around with the Brain Swap 3000, one of her grandad's crackpot inventions, and now Sam is stuck inside the body of her neighbours' dog – and it'll be days before they can change her back!How long can they pretend Sam is just dressing up in a dog costume for charity? Are her chances of winning the big dance competition scuppered? What's going on behind clos...