Just before dawn-that moment when time itself seems to stand still, when the whole world teeters on the edge of possibilities-a man looking like death's own shadow came scurrying down a bluff toward the tiny village of Kilonny in Ireland.
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Beyond the western sea
Book One: The Escape From Home
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Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
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Beyond the Western Sea: Book I: The Escape From Home
1997-10, Follett Bound
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Beyond the western sea: Book One: The Escape From Home
1996, Orchard Books
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0531095134 9780531095133
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"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Book 2: Lord Kirkle's money.
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Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them ogether, the three join forces in a daring scheme that may lead to freedom and glory...or dire consequences.
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