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Ballad novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
The Hamelin High School class of 1966 plans a grand reunion. In the meantime, a famous singer has bought the town mansion and is stalked by a killer.
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 2
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
In Heart of the Lonely Exile, Book Two of BJ Hoff's acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series, readers will find heroine, Nora Kavanagh struggling to build a new life for herself and her son Daniel in America. With help from a wealthy American family and friendship and support from a British gentleman, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.
Michael Burke, a strong, dedicated Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep...
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Song of the Silent Harp begins the five-book saga of three friends raised in a tiny Irish village devastated by the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s, as they struggle to survive and hold onto their faith during Ireland's darkest days...
Nora Kavanagh has lost her husband and young daughter, and now lives in fear of losing her home. She and her young son, Daniel, have only one hope for survival, the poet/patriot-and love of Nora's youth-Morgan Fitzgerald....
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Series
Ballad novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
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Series
Emerald ballad volume 3
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
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
Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In Book Four of her bestselling The Emerald Ballad Series, BJ Hoff continues to build the drama and excitement of her sweeping mid-19th century Irish American saga.
In Ireland, poet, patriot, and schoolmaster Morgan Fitzgerald is locked in conflict with his closest friend's rebel son-who steals the heart of Morgan's adopted daughter. Among the streets of New York, Pastor Jess Dalton and his feisty wife, Kerry, continue to battle against poverty and...
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Series
Emerald ballad volume 5
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
In the fifth and concluding volume of her bestselling The Emerald Ballad Series, BJ Hoff brings the exciting Irish-American historical drama to a climax with all the passion and power readers have come to expect from her.
The saga finds Morgan Fitzgerald adapting to life in a wheelchair as a result of an assailant's bullet to his spine. Meanwhile, his wife, Finola, must face the dark memories and guarded secrets of her past. In New York City, policeman...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Historian Jeremy Cobb is backpacking on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to retrace the tragic journey of 18-year-old Katie Wyler, who was captured by the Shawnee after the massacre of her pioneer family.
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Series
Ballad novels volume 4
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Randall Stargill's imminent death stirs up the living and the dead, with a real estate developer poised to snap up the Stargill's Appalachian farm, Randall's four sons trying to deal with each other and the demands left by their dying father, and an old sweetheart hoping to lay a long-held secret to rest.
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Series
Ballad novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood's testimony helped convict a Tennessee youth for the slaying of two hikers; now twenty years later he is invited to the execution. Spencer, recovering from a wound, is obsessed with understanding what happened in a century-old murder case which resulted in the first hanging of a woman in North Carolina, and finds parallels between tne two cases.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood receives an invitation to an execution for Fate Harkryder, a young man he helped convict twenty years earlier for the murder of two hikers, but the parallels between the Harkryder case and another murder that took place over one hundred years earlier, leads Spencer to question whether Harkryder is really guilty.
12) The Songcatcher
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Series
Ballad novels volume 6
Description
Skipping back and forth in time from the 18th to the late 20th century, and drawing on her own family history, McCrumb tells two stories in her appealing new novel, one heading toward, the other returning to, the Appalachians. In the present-day sections, 83-year-old John Walker is slowly dying in the eastern Tennessee town where he has lived most of his life, while his estranged daughter, Linda Walker better known as the country singer Lark McCourry...
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Series
Ballad novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song she heard as a child living in the North Carolina mountians. Over the years, the memory of the old song has dimmed and lark's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonsteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.
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Series
Ballad novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern-day mountain folk.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 8
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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Series
Ballad novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution. Homesteading in the Carolina mountains, Sevier was too busy, but when an arrogant British officer sends a message, threatening to burn the settlers' farms and kill their families, the war becomes personal. That abrasive officer is British Army Major Patrick Ferguson, the younger son of a Scottish earl. Ferguson suffers constant misfortunes, making his dedication and courage count...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school,...
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
Bosch and Ballard volume 1
Renée Ballard
Ballad and Bosch novel volume 1
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Bosch and Ballard volume 1
Renée Ballard
Ballad and Bosch novel volume 1
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...
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Series
Ballads of paradise volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Literary Americana fiction filled with humor and heart. When his wife, Angel, is killed in a head-on collision, Gomez Gomez feels he can't go on--so he doesn't. He spends his days in the bushes next to the crash site drinking Thunderbird wine, and his nights cradling a coffee can full of Angel's ashes. Slow, sure suicide, with no one for company but the snakes, Elvis's ghost, and a strange kid named Bones. Across town, Father Jake Morales plays it...
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Series
Ballads of paradise volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Early Pines is a man at loose ends. On temporary leave from his job as a detective with the Paradise Police Department, he's a man with too much time on his hands. And, at just over three years sober, empty time isn't easy time. When his old friend, cowboy ex-priest, Jake Morales, invites him to tag along to a Tucson rodeo, he jumps at the distraction. Maybe the interstate would have been a better idea. A blown pickup tire, a flat spare, a hundred...