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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text provide a history of Irish-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century potato famine when millions immigrated to America, and includes essays by some of America's foremost Irish-American writers, historians, and personalities.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Memoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the sterotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite for stories.
10) 'Tis: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Frank McCourt, author of the childhood memoir "Angela's Ashes," shares the story of his life as an American immigrant, discussing his experiences from the age of nineteen when he landed in New York, to his eventual success as a teacher and writer.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Five years after Sunday Brennan deserted her family without explanation, she is injured in a drunk driving accident. Sunday returns home to meet her resentful brothers and ex-fiancé. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family's pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect the Brennan's is to upend all their secrets. In the aftermath, the Brennans are forced to confront painful mistakes and find a way forward together....
15) Broken Irish
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Boston, six very different people deal with corruption and redemption while watching their neighborhood go through the changes that are needed in order to make it grow.
17) Charming Billy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania,...
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