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Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 5
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
In the fifth and concluding volume of her bestselling The Emerald Ballad Series, BJ Hoff brings the exciting Irish-American historical drama to a climax with all the passion and power readers have come to expect from her.
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...
42) The other side
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Vincent and Ellen MacNamara travel from Ireland to the American dream, as they imagine it, in the early part of the 20th century.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 5
Formats
Description
Nuala Anne McGrail, now lives in Chicago with her husband Dermot, and their new baby, Nelliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mother and can see into the past as well as the future. Nuala is having a hugely successful career as a folksinger but she is being brutally attacked in the media by a schlock-jock named Nick Farmer, who says he's out to push her off the charts.
44) Riot
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Katie and her family make shamrocks for each of her classmates to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but when Mrs. Connor shows a shamrock that looks very different, Katie is sad until, together, they learn the distinction between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover.
47) Land of promise
Author
Series
Ellis Island trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
49) Maggie-now
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness."--P. [4] of cover.
51) Forever: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 33
Description
Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741, has been given the gift of immortality--but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through his eyes, this magical epic follows the city's transformation from a burgeoning settlement to the thriving metropolis of the present day. But this is also Cormac's story as he explores the mysteries of time and immortality, death and loss, sex and love
55) September song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Accompanied by his long-suffering but devoted wife, Rosemarie, trouble-prone Chucky Cronin O'Malley becomes embroiled in the turbulent events of the 1960s.
57) Currents
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1854 eleven-year-old Bones is a slave in Virginia who sends a bottle holding her real name and a trinket from her long-lost father down the James River--the currents carry it far away, ultimately uniting the lives of three young girls.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In the aftermath of a dream about a threat to homeland security, Irish-born Nuala and her husband, Dermot, find themselves enmeshed in a conspiracy that leads them to a manuscript containing information about a tragic moment in history.
60) Ashes of roses
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.