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Bagpipes, brides and homicides

2012
Despite her wish for a simple white wedding, Liss MacCrimmon's mother plans a traditional Scottish wedding, complete with kilts, on the weekend of Moosetookalook, Maine's Western Maine Highland Games. The murder of a college professor and a list of suspects that includes Liss'father, Donald Mac" MacCrimmon, further complicates matters, and Liss dives into the investigation to save both her father and her wedding.

The Scots and Scotch-Irish in America

1992
Discusses the causes leading to the immigration of the Scots and the Scotch-Irish to the United States and describes their contributions to the economy and culture of their new country.

Something wicked

a Horatio Wilkes mystery
2008
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," in which Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of Duncan MacKae at the Scottish Highland Games in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, after his friend Malcolm, the son of Duncan MacKae, becomes the lead suspect.

A place called freedom

1996
Twenty-one-year old coal miner Mack McAsh leaves his indentured servitude in Scotland on a slave ship bound for a Virginia plantation in 1766, with his only friend, beautiful, high-born Lizzie Hallim.

Dancing at the rascal fair

1996
Chronicles the American experiences of Angus McCaskill and Rob Barclay, Scottish immigrants, who lived for three decades in Two Medicine Country at the base of the Rocky Mountains.

Famous firsts of Scottish-Americans

1997
Profiles thirty pioneering Scottish-Americans who significantly contributed to the heritage and prosperity of the United States including Alexander Graham Bell, Rachel Carson, Washington Irving, Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Arden, and James Monroe.

Invisible immigrants

the adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in nineteenth-century America
1972

The Scottish Americans

1991
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Scots, reasons for their emigration, and their place in American society.

Drums of autumn :

2001
Claire Randall has traveled back in time to 18th century Scotland. There she met and fell in love with Jamie Fraser. Bearing his child, she returned to the present to raise that child. But when the past recalled her she went. When her grown daughter, Brianna, makes a disturbing discovery that sends her to the same circle of stones that took her mother into the past, Brianna knows she must follow. As she searches for her mother and the father she has never met, Brianna knows she is risking her own future to save their lives.

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