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Band of Sisters

Copyright © 2012 by Cathy Gohlke. All rights reserved.

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Edited by Sarah Mason

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version.

The Scripture quotation in the dedication is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version,^® NIV.^® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.^TM Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com.

Band of Sisters is a work of fiction. Where real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales appear, they are used fictitiously. All other elements of the novel are drawn from the author’s imagination.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gohlke, Cathy.

Band of sisters / Cathy Gohlke.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4143-5308-1 (sc)

1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Irish—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—History—1898-1951—Fiction. 4. Ireland—Emigration and immigration—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.O3448B36 2012

813´.6—dc23 2012011647

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