B. J Hoff
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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Pub. Date
2018
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"West Virginia, 1869 Three years ago, Dr. Daniel Kavanagh settled down in the quaint town of Mount Laurel and established a medical practice there. The single doctor has been nursing an unrequited crush on Serena Norman, the local schoolteacher. Just down the road lies the coal mining town of Owenduffy, considered by most in Mount Laurel to be a backwoods hamlet. When the mine company's doctor abandons his post, Daniel agrees to visit one day a week,...
Author
Series
Daybreak mysteries volume 1
Description
Beautiful young Jennifer Terry accepts a position as executive assistant at a Christian radio station in a small Virginia town. Her new employer is Daniel Kaine, a former Olympic gold medalist in swimming, who was blinded in a car accident with a drunk driver. The attraction between Jennifer and Daniel is quick to kindle, but their growing relationship soon takes a backseat to the insidious threats and attempts on Daniel's life.
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
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Christian Historical Fiction
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Series
The Riverhaven years volume 2
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In Where Grace Abides, the compelling second book in the series, Hoff offers her readers an even closer look at the Amish community of Riverhaven and the people who live and love and work there. Secrets, treachery, and persecution are only a few of the challenges that test Rachel's faith and her love for the forbidden "outsider," while Gant's own hopes and dreams are dealt a life-changing blow, rendering the vow he made to Rachel seemingly impossible...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
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"When wounded Irish-American riverboat captain Jeremiah Gant bursts into the rural Amish setting of Riverhaven, he brings chaos and conflict to the community- especially for young widow Rachel Brenneman. The unwelcome "outsider" needs a safe place to recuperate before continuing his secret role as an Underground Railroad conductor. Neither he nor Rachel is prepared for the forbidden love that threatens to endanger a mans mission, a womans heart, and...
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 2
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Description
When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek ... nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's childhood but seems destined to become the love of her life. In Maggie's quest for independence, she finds her greatest strength in sacrifice...
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 2
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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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
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
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
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...
12) The song weaver
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways. An abrupt summons to return from their honeymoon wrenches them from the joy of their early days of marriage and thrusts them into the midst of a family in anguish. Responsible for helping their loved ones heal, while maintaining and nurturing their own relationship and their love for each other,...
13) River of mercy
Author
Series
The Riverhaven years volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Where Grace Abides. In this book, young Gideon Kanagy faces a life-changing challenge-and an unexpected romance with his young Amish friend, Emma Knepp. Gideon's sister, Rachel, and the "outsider" Jeremiah Gant add to the drama with their own dilemma and its repercussions for the entire community of Riverhaven.
As with all of BJ's popular books, unforgettable characters and well-drawn suspense keep readers turning pages into the wee hours.
14) The tangled web
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Series
Daybreak mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Teddy Giordano flees to Virginia with his boss's two children and an incriminating diary after their father is killed by the mob, but their desperate race for safety seems doomed until they accept the help of Christian sleuths Daniel and Jennifer Kaine.
Author
Series
Daybreak mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
While honeymooning on the shores of Lake Erie, Daniel and Jennifer Kaine expected a week of relaxation and moonlit strolls on the beach. They hadn't counted on meeting Vali Tremayne. Vali, a famous Christian singer, has been in seclusion since the loss of her fiance, Paul Alexander, in a plane crash. But her emotional struggles may not be simply the result of grief over Paul's death. Someone is tormenting her, trying to drive her insane - or kill...
Author
Series
Daybreak mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The Kaines, while participating in the Heritage Arts Festival at the local college in Derry Ridge, Kentucky, tries to help their host Mitch Donovan with his problems, first his friend Abby, a middle-aged amnesia victim, is being stalked, then his childhood sweetheart, a celebrity author comes back into his life.
17) Vow of Silence
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Series
Pub. Date
1990, 1988
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This is book four in the Daybreak Series featuring the husband and wife team of Daniel and Jennifer Kaine, two reluctant sleuths who end up in the thick of sinister plots and dangerous mysteries that challenge both their love and their faith. In this book, Jennifer and Daniel become involved with Whitney Sharyn a young deaf woman who Jennifer believes has survived some excruciating ordeal in her past. A past that is still haunting her. Jennifer is...