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41) 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.
43) 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
45) 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.
49) 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.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.
53) 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.
54) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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
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...
56) Irish gold
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Dermot Coyne travels to Ireland to discover why his grandparents secretly fled during the Troubles, where he is aided in his search by the lovely Nuala McGrail, a student.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone - or perhaps several someones - is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions and someone starts shooting at our Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic a la James Bond.
58) Irish rebel
Author
Description
Irish horse trainer Brian Donnelly is delighted by his new position at America's Royal Meadows Farms and finds himself beguiled by Keeley Grant, the beautiful and innocent daughter of his employer, in a story that follows the love affair of the daughter of the couple from Roberts's first book, Irish Thoroughbred.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
On a visit to the grave of grandparents Nuala Anne McGrail, who has psychic vision, notices the coffin in a nearby grave is empty. The grave is that of Jimmy Sullivan, a 1920s Chicago gangster. As Nuala's fiance, Dermot Coyne proceeds to investigate, he runs into lethal opposition. By the author of Irish Lace.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.