Gerard Doyle
81) The grave
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
83) The first day
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair. When Anna falls pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout, when it finally comes is shocking, cruel, and violent. Over thirty years later, Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned....
84) The Retribution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan struggle to recapture celebrity sociopath Jack Vance, who has broken out of prison with the intention of exacting violent revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The first in a new series from Hater author David Moody, One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning is brimming with horror. Fifteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark. Over the years this place has served many purposes--a fishing settlement, a military outpost, a scientific base--but one by one its inhabitants have abandoned its inhospitable shores. Today it's home...
86) Calibre
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of customers, the "Manners Killer" makes sure that the next thing either sees is the beginning of his own grisly end. When he starts mailing letters to the Southeast London police squad, hell soon find out...
Author
Series
Sea of Trolls trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Description
Cartwright had been the office bully and a snoop for decades so few at the newspaper where he worked mourn him when he is found dead. But when colleague Owen Simmons discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk containing a photograph, it brings Owen back to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved.
90) Acid Row
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Visiting a crime-riddled housing project, unaware that a known pedophile lives there, Sophie Morrison learns that a child has gone missing and that the project's vigilantes are out in force, trapping Sophie with a man who is intent on hurting her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle Nicholas can win only if he finds five other Guardians in time.
93) The time thief
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were...
95) The Grim Company
Author
Series
Grim Company novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The Grim Company, a shoddy band of misfits that includes a crippled Halmage, two orphans, and a manservant, must fight the Magelord Salazar, the Augmentors, the White Lady, and demons in an effort to save the world.
96) Life Sentences
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A portrait of life in Ireland follows sixteen-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. Ireland 1846. With Ireland ravaged by famine and England unsympathetic to its plight, Kathleen Deacey faces a devastating choice-leave her country to find work or risk dying there. Despising the English for refusing to help Ireland, she crosses the ocean to support her family and search for her missing fiancé. But when her voyage goes awry, she must accept help from an English whaling captain, Jack...
Author
Series
The last roundup (Roddy Doyle) volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret...
100) The telling pool
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.