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LocationOakland
StatusChecked Out
Call NoF LAW
TitleThe pirate queen : a novel / Ariel Lawhon.
AuthorLawhon, Ariel, author.
Barcode47660111121881
CollectionFiction
Summary"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia, a thrilling historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O'Malley, the infamous Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything to protect her people against the powerful Elizabethan regime Grace O'Malley was born to be at sea. Raised alongside her brother by their father, chief of the name of clan O'Malley, Grace learns early that her dreams of the open water are not compatible with the life she's expected to lead as the daughter of a noble family. And when her father marries her to the wrong man, a neighboring chief named Donhal, Grace's world shifts for the worse. Undaunted, Grace raises a family without abandoning her passion, aiding her hot-tempered husband in his campaigns against rival tribes. Eventually ousted from her husband's land in the wake of his death, Grace returns to her childhood home and begins her career as a pirate in earnest, claiming new territories and finding deeper love, only to see her livelihood threatened by English incursions into Ireland, and her family endangered in an attempt to check her power. Tenderly observed and fiercely written, Ariel Lawhon's gripping latest channels the natural beauty of sixteenth-century Ireland alongside the brutality of the period as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine and defender of her people, who truly earned the title "the Pirate Queen of Ireland.""-- Provided by publisher.
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OaklandChecked Out47660111121881F LAWFictionNew ShelfDue on 9/25/2026

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780385550345 hardcover
Personal Name Lawhon, Ariel, author.
Title Statement The pirate queen : a novel / Ariel Lawhon.
Edition Statement First Doubleday hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Doubleday, 2026.
Physical Description 528 p. hardcover 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia, a thrilling historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O'Malley, the infamous Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything to protect her people against the powerful Elizabethan regime Grace O'Malley was born to be at sea. Raised alongside her brother by their father, chief of the name of clan O'Malley, Grace learns early that her dreams of the open water are not compatible with the life she's expected to lead as the daughter of a noble family. And when her father marries her to the wrong man, a neighboring chief named Donhal, Grace's world shifts for the worse. Undaunted, Grace raises a family without abandoning her passion, aiding her hot-tempered husband in his campaigns against rival tribes. Eventually ousted from her husband's land in the wake of his death, Grace returns to her childhood home and begins her career as a pirate in earnest, claiming new territories and finding deeper love, only to see her livelihood threatened by English incursions into Ireland, and her family endangered in an attempt to check her power. Tenderly observed and fiercely written, Ariel Lawhon's gripping latest channels the natural beauty of sixteenth-century Ireland alongside the brutality of the period as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine and defender of her people, who truly earned the title "the Pirate Queen of Ireland.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical, Renaissance Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical thrillers Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Grace O'Malley Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women sea captians Fiction.
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