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1) Plugged
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author: "Outrageous characters, uproariously funny plot twists, and brutal, nonstop action . . . a sure-fire winner." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino, the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. That is until lots of people around him...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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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.
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
Series
Emerald ballad volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irish poet-patriot Morgan Fitzgerald, weary of the struggle just to survive in Ireland, finds new hope in his love for Finola, while in America, Morgan's friend Michael, a policeman, declares war against organized crime, not realizing his own son has been lured into the schemes of New York gangster Patrick Walsh.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife.
7) Resolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everett Hitch wanders into Resolution, a newly settled Old West town, and works as a protector at the Blackfoot Saloon where the local ranchers' trouble with O'Malley, the greedy copper mine owner, grows into a small war.
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