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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
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Language
English
Description
Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research
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Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
6) Shadow dance
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Series
Language
English
Description
A romance moving between the glamorous cosmopolitan world of Boston and small-town Texas follows the tumultuous relationship between Jordan Buchanan and Noah Clayborne.
Jordan Buchanan is thrilled that her brother and best friend are tying the knot. The wedding is a lavish affair -- for the marriage of Dylan Buchanan and Kate MacKenna is no ordinary occasion. It represents the joining of two family dynasties. The ceremony and reception proceed without...
Author
Series
Pig trilogy volume 1st entry
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Language
English
Description
What the pig did -- in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly Romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland -- is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance, utter pandemonium ... and finally the mystery of a possible criminal transgression that the beast roots up from a vegetable garden.
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,...
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.
17) 'Tis: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
19) The Irish Texans
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Series
Publisher
University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
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.