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"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,”...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic...
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic...
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In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she 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.
4) Lilac Lane
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 14
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English
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A proud woman, reeling from the loss of the first man she was able to love decades after the abandonment of her husband, is urged to return to her Virginia home to help run an Irish pub, where she clashes with an equally strong-minded chef who shares many of her heartaches.
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
c2014.
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Español
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Jordan Buchanan está encantada de que su hermano Dylan y su mejor amiga Kate MacKenna se casen. Durante la boda, un excéntrico profesor de historia medieval advierre que entre los clanes de la pareja existe una enemistad que se remonta a una antigua disputa que se originó en Escocia, cuando los Buchanan robaron un codiciado tesoro de los MacKenna ... Un maleante poderoso y amenazador, un hombre que esconde un secreto y una inesperada historia...
7) Dead Irish
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
©1989.
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English
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In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss ? but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.
A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life ... If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience ... It is a poignant and...
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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10) Brothers
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Paddy's Pub is run by Charlie, Mac, Dennis, and his sister Dee, four hilariously warped and egocentric friends who have twisted world views and precarious judgments on serious social issues, leading to awkward and outrageous misadventures. This title is being Repackaged
Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction...
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Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
14) Mending horses
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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The novel tells the story of two people who collide with each other just as the whole world seems to be caught between the drama of Obama's election and the catastrophic collapse of the global economy. Bruno is a middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland as a refugee from the financial meltdown in his own country. Addie is an out of work Irish architect. When she meets Bruno, her life seems to be on a downward spiral. Addie and Bruno's...
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Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
17) The fires of Philadelphia: citizen-soldiers, nativists, and the 1844 riots over the soul of a nation
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A gripping and masterful account of the moment one of America's founding cities turned on itself, giving the nation a preview of the Civil War to come"--
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 47
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English
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Set in the Reconstruction-era South, this sequel to Margeret Mitchell's well-loved novel follows Rhett, Scarlett, and Ashley as they pick up the pieces of their lives.
19) The gallery
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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With only a few weeks left before his wedding, Dermot is hoping his fiancee Nuala won't have anymore psychic dreams, but before he knows what is happening, he is following one of Nuala's hunches and trying to solve a historic mystery.
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