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3) Broken Irish
Author
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Samuel Beckett's work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving us blinking with stinging eyes at unremitting reality. Beckett's defeatism was no soft choice: he had iron in his soul and the wry humor of those who withstand all misfortune,...
8) Torchlight
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.
12) The ninth hour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
13) The blessings
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come.
14) On Canaan's side
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lilly Bere reflects on her life as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill, recounting her forced emigration from Ireland at the end of World War I, her life in America, her first taste of love and betrayal, and her capacity for forgiveness.
15) Brida: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While on a quest for knowledge, Brida, a young Irish girl, encounters two individuals who teach her about magic; a forest hermit, who helps to realize the goodness in the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance and pray to the moon; but while this knowledge soaks in Brida struggles to balance her priorities.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Lights of Lowell book 1. Tapestry of Hope weaves together the heartrending and hope-building stories of two young women. Jasmine Wainwright is the sheltered daughter of a Mississippi plantation owner. When her father strikes a deal to sell his cotton to Lowell mills through businessman Bradley Houston, he throws an arranged marriage with Jasmine into the bargain. Kiara O'Neill and her brother escape starvation in Ireland by traveling to America as...
17) Projekt 1065
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
20) Irish gold
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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.
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