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Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: irritable, unpleasant relatives; horrible weather, miserable travel; a slobbering dog - and one Jack Flanigan, "a harmless American of Irish origins," who is reluctantly but totally falling in love - with one Odessa Tatiana Alekseevna Shuskulya, a young woman from Russia who's studying at Harvard. (Jack, of course, is attending Boston College, the Jesuits' hangout in Chestnut Hill.)"--BOOK...
86) The Corpse Queen
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her "aunt." With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as a maid for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage's coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real,...
Author
Series
O'Malley Family Saga volume 5
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Charles "Chuck" O'Malley and his growing clan face the promise and pitfalls of the late seventies.
90) Cinnamon moon
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Historical fiction about two siblings and a friend trying to find a new family and a home after the Great Chicago Fire"--
91) Brothers
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brothers' store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
Author
Series
Poppy Rice mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The discovery of an unidentified pregnant woman whose body washes ashore on a rocky Boston beach sends FBI agent Poppy Rice on a quest to uncover the truth about the crime, which is linked by DNA to a similar drowning thirty years earlier
Author
Series
Edge of freedom volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
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?"--
96) Second spring
Author
Series
O'Malley Family Saga volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Chucky O'Malley and his clan face the promises and pitfalls of the 1970s, during which Chucky finds himself in the grip of a debilitating mid-life crisis and disillusionment with the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go." (Gary Shteyngart) "We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet."The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced Brigid Howley and...
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail volume 8
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Nuala Anne and her husband, Dermot Coyne, once again look into mysteries past and present: the first chronicled in the diaries of Father Richard Lonigan, a 19th-century parish priest in Donegal, Ireland, the second involving poor Damian "Day" O'Sullivan.
100) Of Irish blood
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels volume 1
Description
It's 1903. Nora Kelly, twenty-four, is talented, outspoken, progressive, and climbing the ladder of opportunity, until she falls for an attractive but dangerous man who sends her running back to the Old World her family had fled. Nora takes on Paris, mixing with couturiers, artists, and "les femmes Americaines" of the Left Bank such as Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Beach. But when she stumbles into the centuries-old Coll©·ge des Irlandais, a good-looking...