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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Nora Kavanagh and her young son Daniel have fled famine-ravaged Ireland to build a new life in America. Michael Burke, a dedicated and resolute New York City policeman, wants to keep his promise to his best friend, Morgan Fitzgerlad, to marry Nora and protect her. But Nora's instincts urge her to follow her heart in a different direction.
Now they struggle to survive intheir new and unfamiliar county. Even with the friendship and help of a wealthy,...
23) Irish rebel
Author
Language
English
Description
From the moment she met him, Keeley Grant knew there was something wild about Brian Donnelly. He dared to ignore everything that said a poor Irish rogue shouldn't touch her, and battered down every wall she threw at him. A wild thing by nature cannot be contained, not by convention or fences or even by love. Could she give him everything if he was just going to walk away?
25) City on fire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The first novel in an epic crime saga from the New York Times bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy and The Force"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Patrick promises his buddies that his baseball hero will come to their playground in Hell's Kitchen, bat for him, and chase the Copperheads out.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture," a middle-aged woman, already no stranger to loss, consults a WWII news reel to determine the fate of her son. The harrowing but transcendent "The End of Days" imagines life in...
31) Plugged
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor and searches for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
33) The silver boat
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
35) Solar bones
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one...
Publisher
[Platinum Disc Corp.]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Made for each other: Newlyweds in Hollywood's Golden Age must overcome poverty, career pressures, and illness. The power of their love sees them through. Pot o' gold: An idle young rich man signs on with a struggling swing band, and convinces his uncle to put the band on the air.
37) Northern spy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
39) Milkman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman (which for the life of her, she cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her,...