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Ida Linehan Young

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Born

North Harbour, NL, Canada

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http://www.idalinehanyoung.ca

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Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

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Ida Linehan Young is a wife, mother, and grandmother living, writing, and publishing in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Recently retired from the information technology sector in the federal government, Ida created Seaweed Publishing to complement her substantial, award-winning, and best-selling writing portfolio.

Ida’s first published works, a memoir, debuted to a record-breaking crowd in 2014. She has since published across multiple genres with historical Newfoundland fiction, non-fiction, speculative fiction, crime, and children’s books.

Influenced by her love of local history and the familial art of storytelling passed down by her father, Edward Linehan, and her maternal grandfather, Frank Power, she began writing stori ...more

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Average rating: 4.34 · 1,669 ratings · 378 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	If I Cry I'll Fill the Ocean: The Catherine Linehan Story 4.56 avg rating — 291 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Being Mary Ro 4.24 avg rating — 293 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stolen Ones 4.13 avg rating — 215 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Promise 4.47 avg rating — 195 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Liars 4.15 avg rating — 204 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Turning Back: Surviving the Linehan Family Tragedy 4.74 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Room Upstairs 3.54 avg rating — 130 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Secret Close to Home 4.56 avg rating — 79 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blinders - A Crime Thriller 4.71 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santa's Birds 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ida Young and 1 other person liked Harold Walters's review of A Brother's Shadow: " I was a wee bay-boy during the years shortly after WWII had ended and Confederation had pupped. I was in awe of the dozen men in our community who had been overseas in the Forestry. They were not belittled, nor were they heroes. In my eyes, they were" Read more of this review »
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Ida Young liked Numberbox's review of If I Cry I'll Fill the Ocean: The Catherine Linehan Story: "The type of all-Canadian book I love to read, albeit a heartbreaking memoir. Such a wonderful gesture for daughter-author to be retelling her mother’s life in the first person: To live in Newfoundland, raise a family of 10 and have half of your famil" Read more of this review »
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Ida Young liked Adina Stamp's review of Blinders - A Crime Thriller: "Kept me guessing from start to finish! I definitely didn’t see that ending coming. Great read and very well written, especially if you enjoy a good page turner. Well done Ida "
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Ida Young rated a book it was amazing A Brother's Shadow by Ida Linehan Young (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I hope you enjoy this tale of an ordinary Newfoundlander in an extraordinary time. Though Frank is a fictional character, he could have been any one of the four thousand men who faced WW2 from the forests of Scotland. They were a proud and resilient ...more
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Ida Young rated a book it was amazing The Brink of Something Beautiful: A Novel by Bobbi French	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Bobbi French has given us a beautiful take on life, grief, and forgiveness of self and personal growth through the eyes of Ruby and Maxine. These two unlikely people, meet at a funeral and work towards forging an unforgettable bond once they learn fo ...more
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Ida Young rated a book it was ok Shattered Dreams: Stories of Loggers Buried Overseas by Lester Green	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Only because I was interested in the subject matter since my father was in the NOFU did I finish. I did like the pictures and was interested in the loggers who died, a little bit about them, etc. which is why I gave it two stars instead of an did not ...more
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