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3) Brooklyn
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.
4) O pioneers!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. The daughter of the family inherits the land when her father dies, and the story follows her struggle to maintain it when many around her are leaving the prairie in defeat. There are two romantic narratives in the novel: that of the daughter and a family friend, and of her brother and a married woman.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chance airport encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honour.
For the next...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When her new employer is unexpectedly murdered, apprentice private investigator Molly Murphy is determined to catch the killer despite the skepticism of handsome NYPD detective Daniel Sullivan.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
11) Promised to me
Author
Series
Coming to America volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In Idaho, the land is good but life is hard for a German émigré whose dreams have turned to dust. Love found and lost can shatter a man's faith. But it is about to strengthen that of the woman to whom he turns--and in the drought of summer, a withered promise springs to life.
12) My Antonia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
My Antonia(1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
15) Prairie trilogy
Author
Publisher
[unknown independent publisher]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In one volume, all three novels comprising Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy. Included in this volume are:O Pioneers! (originally published in 1913)The Song of the Lark (originally published in 1915)My Antonia (originally published in 1918)Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American author known for her vivid depictions of life in the American Midwest. Born in Virginia in 1873, Cather moved to Nebraska with her family at the age of nine. It was there that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds; your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. Jane, an immigrant...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda que siempre te quise. ("Forgive me if I failed you. Remember...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor Paddy Riley, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who is purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman's body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it's the missing society girl. Then Molly's sometime...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then she's going to need some help....
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