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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Having escaped the famine that ravages their beloved Ireland, Nora Kavanagh and her son Daniel begin the difficult process of building a new life for themselves in America. Befriended by the wealthy Farmingtons and supported by the constant friendship of the injured Englishman, Evan Whittaker, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.Michael Burke, the strong, competent Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep his promise...
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His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a voyage to the New World his party is attacked by Indians and he is marooned in the untamed wilderness of the Carolina coast. It is in this darkest time,...
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Emerald ballad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Irish poet-patriot Morgan Fitzgerald, weary of the struggle just to survive in Ireland, finds new hope in his love for Finola, while in America, Morgan's friend Michael, a policeman, declares war against organized crime, not realizing his own son has been lured into the schemes of New York gangster Patrick Walsh.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Nora Kavanagh, left alone with her young son Daniel after the Irish Potato Famine claims the rest of her family, relies upon her faith in God to sustain her through the most difficult period in her life, and must decide whether to place her trust in Morgan Fitzgerald, a poet-rebel whose good intentions sometimes fail to produce results.
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When her mother suffers a stroke, medical student Deirdre O'Leary puts her career on hold to care for her. Dr. Matthew Clayborne hets amazing results with patients, but Deirdre finds him challenging. A widower, Dr. Clayborne has two priorities: his work with wounded soldiers and his four-year old daughter, Phoebe. He won't abandon either to care for one older woman. But when Phoebe suffers a health scare, they're offered respite at the Irish...
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"Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect...
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Emerald ballad volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The saga finds Morgan Fitzgerald adapting to life in a wheelchair as a result of an assailant's bullet to his spine. Meanwhile, his wife, Finola, must face the dark memories and guarded secrets of her past. In New York City, policeman Michael Burke is caught in a conflict between his faith and his determination to bring a dangerous enemy to justice.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Morgan Fitzgerald, Michael and Sara Burke, and Evan and Nora Whittaker, friends divided by the ocean that lies between Ireland and America, have clearly seen the hand of God upon them, and they begin to realize His further plan for their lives when they are brought in contact with wounded people who need their love, strength, and help.
10) The ninth hour
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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove; to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife, 'that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.' In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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860L
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English
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Pronto Pike and his partner Eddie Holt follow the trail of rustlers who are raiding the Bar J Ranch and who are so ruthless that they have no qualms about murdering a woman. Pronto Pike had punched longhorns along the Rio Grande and ridden the rails back East, but he'd never been in a spot like this before. It had begun with a bitter standoff between a powerful rancher and a homesteading Irishman. It escalated into missing cattle, overlaid brands,...
12) Dark road home
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Edge of freedom volume 2
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English
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"Hunted by dangerous enemies and betrayed by those they loved, can Ana and Eoghan, 19th century Irish immigrants in New York, forgive the wounds of the past and learn to trust again?"--Provided by publisher.
13) Irish meadows
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Courage to dream volume 1
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English
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1911, Long Island, New York. Brianna and Colleen O'Leary know their Irish immigrant father expects them to marry well, insinuating that the future of their horse farm, Irish Meadows, depends on it. Both girls, however, have different visions for their futures. Brianna dreams of attending college. Colleen has exacting standards for her ideal groom. It will take every ounce of courage for both sisters to follow their hearts.
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
15) The given day
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Coughlin novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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An epic tale set at the end of World War I follows the experiences of a family whose lives mirror the political unrest of an America caught between its well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. During the bloody police riots of 1919, a Boston police officer from a wealthy family, Danny Coughlin, joins a union movement to track down violent radicals, but his values are challenged when he learns that Luther Laurence, the African-American houseman...
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2017.
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English
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"Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin." --
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"An engrossing, epic American drama told from four distinct perspectives, spanning the first major wave of Irish immigration to New York through the end of the Civil War. Four unique voices; two parallel love stories; one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature--famine, war, love, and family--as it introduces four unforgettable characters. Ethan McOwen is an...
20) The big crowd
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Two Irish brothers -- one fallen political star accused of corruption and the other a young DA desperately trying to clear his name -- navigate through a dangerous world of socialites, politicians, righteous reformers and cold-blooded gangsters to find the truth.
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