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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After top photographer Hope Dunne 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, she fights to escape this mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Kate Keene's childhood memories compel her to take her newly-acquired architectural skills to a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. But when she returns to the Reconstruction-era South, she's shocked to discover the man she's dreamed of for so long has become a bitter, angry recluse. Colin Delany, the handsome older brother of her best friend, has lost all he once held dear, with no hope of ever restoring the Belle Fleuve mansion and plantation. Filled...
Author
Series
Edge of freedom volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Desperate to locate her only family, Cara Hamilton leaves Ireland for America and finds herself at the mercy of dangerous revolutionaries--and Rourke, the man she thought she knew and loved.
Author
Series
Edge of freedom volume 2
Publisher
BETHANY HOUSE, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Courage to dream volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When her mother suffers a stroke, medical student Deirdre O'Leary makes the difficult choice to put her career on hold to care for her. Dr. Matthew Clayborne is renowned for his amazing results with patients, but when Deirdre approaches him about helping her mother, she finds him challenging and surly. Deirdre has had enough of complicated men in her life. After her fiancé left her, she vowed never to give a man that kind of power again. Widower...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the riveting conclusion to the EDGE OF FREEDOM series, Captain Keondric Morgan believes Tillie's husband was murdered two years ago when he died crossing to America. Now can Keondric save Tillie from the same fate?"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family retells the story of the shillelagh that was whittled from a tree. During the Irish potato famine, Fergus and his family left for America. But first Fergus cut a branch from a blackthorn tree to take a piece of Ireland with him.
12) Irish meadows
Author
Series
Courage to dream volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At the renowned Irish Meadows horse farm in New York, 1911, sisters Brianna and Colleen O'Leary struggle to reconcile their own dreams with their father's plans for the farm and his demanding marriage expectations"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. 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...
14) Heart of lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Maddie Grande, who was raised to be a thief on the streets of New Orleans, now lives in the bayou. She longs to change her life, but her twin "brothers" have forced her to become involved in a kidnapping. When she falls for the Pinkerton detective assigned to the kidnapping case, her world is turned upside-down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail,...
19) Boy21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Harry Houdini's wife hires Irish immigrant private investigator Molly Murphy to investigate the on-stage death of a magician's assistant, in the hopes of clearing Houdini's name and finding the person truly responsible for the death.