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A graphic novel adaptation of the classic Kipling story about Kimball O'Hara, or Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier who grows up in India, forms a bond with a Tibetan lama, and eventually begins an exciting career in the British Secret Service.

A recent immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco in 1880, Shannon is ready to start school, but is dismayed that her Chinese friend is forbidden by law to attend and that many of her classmates are prejudiced against the Irish as well.

Presents a fictional story set in the New York City of the 1970s that follows a group of individuals as they attempt to live in this bustling city while dealing with the social issues of their time.

Chronicles the events surrounding the famine in Ireland in the late 1840s and discusses how the famine caused thousands of Irish families to immigrate to the United States.

Presents forty-five poems inspired by the author's childhood years in 1950s County Armagh, Ireland, and his adult life in suburban New Jersey.

Journalist Ethan Watters argues that Western concepts of mental illness, from clinical depression to anorexia and schizophrenia, have impacted cultures around the world, covering American culture's "export" of mental health treatments and classifications, and theories of the human psyche, into places such as Hong Kong, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka.

In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together when tragedy strikes.

Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.