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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 persecution while taking the Gospel to show more both the powerful and the poor of the city. Readers will be swept into an epic tale of life and death, heartache and victory, all the while revealing the ancient, enduring glory of an entire people.About This Series: BJ Hoff's Emerald Ballad series was one of the most memorable series published in the 1990s. With combined sales of 300,000 copies, these beloved books found a place in the hearts of BJ's many fans. Now redesigned and freshly covered the saga is available again to a new generation of readers—and BJ's many new fans due to her highly successful Amish series, The Riverhaven Years—The Emerald Ballad series will once again find an enthusiastic audience.
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Christian author B. J. Hoff was born in 1940. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was a church music director and a music teacher. She spent several years writing devotional and gift books before attempting to write fiction. She is the author of Cloth of Heaven, Ashes and Lace, the Emerald Ballad series, the American Anthem series, and the show more Mountain Song Legacy series. She has received the Critics' Choice Book Award for fiction from Christianity Today as well as numerous Excellence in Media Silver Angel awards. She was also a Gold Medallion Award finalist and is currently a member of the Authors Guild, the Irish American Cultural Institute, and the Appalachian Writers Association. She currently lives in Ohio with her husband. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Sons of an Ancient Glory
- Dedication
- To my readers: This book is for you.
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- Dan Kavanagh flew out of the cottage, little Barry in hand, the midwife's harsh words like grapeshot at his back.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Gently, he tipped her face to his and smiled into her eyes. "You are the song of my heart, macushla. You are the joy, the music of my life...and you will always be.
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- Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3558 .O34395 .S63 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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