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Osaka Heat Wins Romance and Multicultural Fiction Book AwardsOsaka Heat is the Gold Medal Winner in the Romance category and Silver Medal winner in the Multicultural Fiction category for Independent Publisher's eLit Awards. The eLit Awards celebrate the ever-growing market of electronic publishing; the program is committed to illuminating and honoring the very best of English language digital works. Buy the e-Book! Erin Go Kill
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SynopsisGhosts That I Have Known is about 60 years of paranormal surprises that prove (at least to me) that we will have some kind of a life after death. Although a goodly number of strange things happened to me after age 6, 
Synopsis1951, is the iconic "Happy Days" TV show colliding with small-town college football on the Great American Plains. More specifically, it is focused on:a. A poor but basically honest student-athlete who was recruited and then romanced by a perennial cellar dweller team that was destined to eventually become a national junior college football dynasty. Buy the Book!
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SynopsisErin Go Kill is the first book in the four-book Gordy Tyler murder-mystery/thriller series.In the fall of 1987, the level of IRA violence escalated in Ulster as the IRA urban guerilla campaign morphed from fierce internecine warfare in blue-collar neighborhoods to elite upper-class targets in government, corporate board rooms and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs. Buy the Book!
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Atlas of County Donegal
“Your beautiful county that is Donegal. This Atlas will showcase
what’s best in the county: the scenery, beauty and most important it’s
people” Buy the Book!
The Flesh of a Dubliner
What’s more enjoyable than hearing the tales of an Irishman with a pint of brew in one hand and a good book in the other?.
Discovering Audacious Love
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What turned a shy somber child into a passionate women? In Discovering Audacious Love Mary Jo reveals how this transformation came about.
History 1 Cubs 0
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The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, only the fifth World Series ever played. Going into this 2013 season, it will be at least 105 years before the Cubs win their next World Series. Buy the Book!
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SAFE HOME – Book 2 of The Tipperary TrilogySafe Home - Bk 2 Tipperary Trilogy
Young Mikey Flynn leaves the tiny Tipperary village of Gortalocca to pursue his calling to the priesthood. But 18th century Ireland is a dangerous place
THE JOURNEYMAN is an Irish historical romance, a compelling tale of
intrigue, danger and romance, set against the backdrop of a perilously
unpredictable 18th century Ireland.
d Time...Don't We? Maeve Higgins, comedian and lady, smashes the brittle veneer on the creme brulee of life and hands around spoons, so we can all taste the delicious absurdity that lies beneath.
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SynopsisA fresh contemporary edition of one of the most dramatic accounts of the Irish War of Independence ever written. 
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SynopsisThe untold story of Diarmuid Lynch, one of the key architects of the 1916 Rising and the last man to leave the GPO. Buy the Book!Diarmuid Lynch: A Forgotten Irish Patriot
Sean South of Garryowen
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Sean South achieved apotheosis on his death in 1957 in an attack on a police station in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Little was known of him during his life, yet Ireland came to a standstill for his burial.
SynopsisWill our history always define us? What does it take to move on from the tragedies of our past? These are questions Laura has been avoiding since that day ten years ago when her mother took her own life, when Laura was just a teenager. Until she meets Miguel, a Colombian lawyer investigating a bombing that took place days before her mother’s death, towards the end of the Northern Irish “Troubles”. Buy the Book!
Dancing with Statues
The Lost Laws of Ireland
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The ancient laws of Ireland provide one of the most comprehensive mirrors of society in Ireland in the early middle ages. The law with its emphasis on honor, truth, fairness and equity and its complex procedures demonstrates a very high level of social maturity and sophistication. Buy the Book!
The Tenant's Tale
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Terence Casey's novel The Tenant's Tale is a fascinating
chronicle of rural Ireland during the nineteenth century as seen through
the eyes of his Great Grandfather, Patrick Casey, who was born in 1806
and died in 1894. Buy the Book!
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Inspired by a true crime, Someone Has Taken My Place is an epic account of identity thefts and multiple insurance fraud. Irish private investigator Andy Stone is on the trail of the international con man known only as the Cowboy. Expert in the forensics of financial fraud investigations, Stone is obsessed with obtaining justice for the dead Irish babies whose identity was stolen by the serial fraudster. Buy the Book!
Someone Has Taken My Place
SynopsisEchoes In The Gangway: A Catholic Boy's Trek Through The Fifties Memories Of My Family And St. Leo Parish
The Fifties brought good times to Auburn Gresham on Chicago’s South Side. The thriving business district around 79th & Halsted pulsed with activity. Enter the Murphy family, eight strong and growing. Off go four kids to St. Leo Catholic grammar school, where the Sisters of Providence teach them Religion from the Baltimore Catechism. Buy the Book!
Echoes In The Gangway
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New York City, 1999. Manhattan was undergoing a momentous transformation, with crime at record lows, the city awash in dot-com buzz, and young professionals taking over the city’s sketchier precincts – and pushing their longtime residents further to the fringes. Yet some things stayed the same. Declan Coulter, raised by his fiery Belfast-born mother in an Alphabet City tenement, is a holdout to an earlier era. Buy the Book!
No Never No More
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SynopsisBartholomew “Bat” Lynch is an Irish immigrant who comes to America with his older sister, Mary, during Prohi- bition. Bat is a rover, a philosopher and, in many ways, a child who never grows up.The Forgiveness Fairy: Sharing the Light of Forgiveness
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The Forgiveness Fairy is a modern Fairytale about the act of forgiveness. It gently leads the reader through the journey of forgiving. Buy the book HERE!
Alice-Rose
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The year is 2011 and the place is Ireland. Libby Finn is still shadowed by grief after the death of her husband Max. The era of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ has come to an end and the young widow has managed to survive the economic downturn better than most.
SynopsisElvis and Ireland is the “Irish Biography” of Elvis Presley. It is the detailed story of Elvis Presley’s life and career, combined with a timeline of events in Irish popular culture and the social changes brought on by his unique brand of rock ‘n’ roll. 
SynopsisHot Under the Collar
Hot Under the Collar is an account of true events set against the hostile and dangerous background of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and written by English school teacher, Andrew Rowley. Buy the Book
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Veteran Irish American Entertainment critic and JC Heights Native Mike Farragher turns a critical eye on himself and releases Notre Dame's Happy Returns
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Relive the trip to the Emerald Isle that started the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s 2012 winning football season.
Longing for Elsewhere
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Born in a Dublin tenement in the middle of the 20th Century, this dead-poor, curious Irish girl escaped to Paris when she was 17 with the help of a nun, a Hollywood actor, and a kind stranger. There she was accepted into the émigré community blacklisted in the McCarthy era.
The Rising at Roxbury Crossing
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This is the story of Willie Dwyer and his ten-year journey to redemption—it is 1919 and a decade-old nightmare haunts the Boston “Copper” and Irish immigrant, a legacy of his entanglement in Ireland’s struggle for independence.
SynopsisTowards A United Ireland
Towards A United Ireland contains the personal, the
controversial and the practical: I do not shirk from the challenging
issues therefore I am not afraid to challenge others.
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book opens with some information on my background covering my early life
and interest in all politics, international and Irish. I give insights
to the evolution from the unionist background into which I was born to
becoming a ‘very contented Irishman’ desiring Irish unity.
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City Life: Coming of Age in Chicago
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City Life is a coming of age tale set in the neighborhoods and streets of Chicago, one of Americas most dynamic cities. It's the 1970's and Chicago's Southside is changing along with the rest of America.
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Joe Henry and his wife Susan began their roller-coaster ride through life despite the objections of both sets of parents. Add their mismatched social and religious differences into the mix and you have A Recipe for Disaster.
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The Fourth Paradise
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The Fourth Paradise is an evocative and almost mystical collection of poems that pays tribute to family, to Ireland, and to myth. 
SynopsisAn ancient gold rush, and loyalty faces off against greed. Circa 2200 BCE: Changes rocking the Continent reach Eire with the dawning Bronze Age. Marauders invade the island seeking copper and gold.
A Secret Hope
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In ancient Ireland, Ciara of Tir Maic is living a lie. She's an imposter. Ciara secretly doubts the very gods she is to serve – a secret that means certain death if it's discovered.
Inside the Regiment
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"By 1814 a large proportion of the British army was Irish." When the '30th Foot' reached the Continent, "nearly three-quarters of the officers were Irish."
West Kerry and the Last Rightboy
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The time is April 1916 and Timothy Michael O’Brien has promised to wed Maire Kelly, a young woman, who works for the publican Reilly. Two weeks before their nuptials Tim goes off looking for adventure so as to have stories to tell his children in old age.
Sevoflurane
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Sevoflurane is the amazing story of the dedicated team that brought Sevoflurane, the most used global inhalation anesthetic to the world, despite the odds.
All Things Irish
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Do bad things really happen to us for a reason? Escape into the ALL THINGS IRISH shop in Door County, Wisconsin
Synopsis Wise Irish Women: A Journey of Love, Loyalty, and Friendship
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Synopsis Just Like Me
Know more about the entwined histories of Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as the people from these different places find their lives crossing paths – and destinies – in Mike Fallaw’s Just Like Me. Buy the Book!
Farewell Philidelphia
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In April 1924, the Carmania set sail from Cobh, Co. Cork bound for Philadelphia. Catherine Brennan was one of many passengers on board who hoped to make her fortune. Her life story unfolds at the age of 22. Meeting the bold Maurice Fitzgerald on board ship - her 6 years in Philadelphia living with the rich and returning to the west of Ireland, to seek a husband through a matchmaker.
Ulmhreacha is Gaelic for Numbers
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Numbers come alive with beautiful illustrations of birds, flowers, bees, and other creatures carefully chosen to captivate young children. Buy the Book!
SynopsisWhen Irish Eyes are Spying
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Nina is a woman born in a Soviet Gulag prison of an Irish father and Spanish Mother. She is recruited by the KGB and trained as an assassin. Buy the Book
Belfast Shakedown
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A famous poet is murdered. The only clue is a £5 note with the words “IT’LL GET VERSE” written on it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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In Irish Echo editor O'Hanlon's first novel, a shaky assassination thriller, tabloid reporter Nick Bailey gets a tip about the police discovery of a dead priest found hanging off London's Blackfriars Bridge, where Roberto Calvi, a banker implicated in a Vatican financial scandal, died similarly in 1982. Buy the Book!
The South Lawn Plot
SynopsisOther people’s families aren’t as perfect as they seem. At Home with the Templetons
SynopsisThe third and climactic entry in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly boisterous Pig Trilogy, one might well repeat the most famous words of the great non-Irish wordsmith and baseball catcher Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Buy the Book!The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven: Book 3 of the Pig Trilogy
SynopsisBack to his familiar mischief is the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It, the bestselling first novel in Joseph Caldwell’s Pig Trilogy. Buy the Book!The Pig Comes to Dinner: Book 2 of the Pig Trilogy
SynopsisWhat the pig did—in Joseph Caldwell’s charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland—is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance . . . utter pandemonium.
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SynopsisMachine politics is a tough business, filled with people who put far more value on power and money than on honor, friendship, or the lives of those who challenge them. 
A Story Told To Us Last Night
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Following our very successful fundraising and the kind donation made by Mary Golden, the Midfield Development Association has published a folklore book called "A Story Told to Us Last Night”, using a selection of local stories from the 1937/38 National Folklore Collection, plus stories written by the children of 2010 from Midfield National School (22 students took part in 2010).
When Ireland Fell Silent
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By combining her love of writing with a life-long fascination with history, she creates historical fiction that both entertains and educates. Buy the Book!
When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out
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Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Buy This Book!
The Prizefighter and the Playwright
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Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be "among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection." The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary -- but rarely documented -- relationship that formed between this celebrated odd couple.
Justice Brennan
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This book is a sweeping and revealing insider look at court history and the life of William J. Brennan Jr., widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century. Buy This Book!
Wizards of Spin
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The Wizards of Spin, America's Favorite News Stars is a compilation of satirical fiction based on real news and the news and talk show celebrities who deliver that information to America each day. There are stories based on Oprah Winfrey, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Chris Matthews, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Dennis Miller, Conan O'Brien and many others.
James the Good: The Black Douglas
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"I wanted to bring one of my heroes, arguably the greatest soldier Scotland has ever produced, to a new generation. Known as James the Good in Scotland, and the Black Douglas in England, this book was a joy to write. His is an extra-ordinary story. His relationship with Robert the Bruce began at the Arrickstane at the head of Annandale in southern Scotland in 1306, and ended in Andulucia in southern Spain in 1330, and is a story writers of fiction would find hard to emulate."
Who Occupies This House
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Kathleen Hill s finely wrought novel tells the story of four generations of an Irish-American family that has lived in the same house for almost a century. Grieving the death of her mother and the imminent sale of the house, the narrator sets out to re-create the hidden, intimate lives of those who came before. Through a series of vignettes she conjures a family devastated in each generation by the loss of a child.
SynopsisIrish Pub Songs
Another Pint founder, Kelly Griner has authored a book of Irish pub songs featuring 20 Irish and Scottish songs arranged and tabbed for frailing banjo. He even includes some arrangements in the keys of C and D to be played out of open G tuning. That's right, Kelly does not use a capo or retune when he is performing.
The Third Rail
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Harvey’s third Michael Kelly novel finds the tough Chicago PI eyeball deep in a burgeoning reign of terror focused on the transit system, the venerable CTA. Kelly witnesses the first murder on an L platform and sets off in hot but futile pursuit.
SynopsisCasting Off
On a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, the fishermen's handmade sweaters tell a story. Each is unique-feelings stitched into rows, memories into patterns.
SynopsisOn the Job
The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. In On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department, Daniel P. Smith draws the curtain to reveal the officers and their personal stories. Smith, an award-winning journalist and the product of a Chicago Police family, explores the work/life juxtaposition of the men and women--mothers and fathers, realists and idealists, cynics and consolers--who don the Chicago Police star.
Sleepwalker
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Stuart Byrne is a young, beautiful, single businessman who finds his perfect life sabotaged by a growing awareness of his own superficiality.
The Walking People
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Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister.
John Barry: American Hero in the Age of Sail
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The man regarded as “the Father of the American Navy” returns to the quarterdeck in John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail, the first comprehensive biography of this legendary officer in generations.
Earl of Darkness
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After a disastrous affair led to her banishment, Cat O'Connell has scraped by, doing whatever she can to make money--even if it's not quite legal. And so She doesn't ask questions when hired to break into the Dublin townhouse of the Earl of Kilronan and take a diary. But this job quickly unravels into disaster when she's caught red-handed by the earl himself, Aidan Douglas.
The King with Horse's Ears and Other Irish Folktales
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Storytelling is one of Ireland’s oldest and grandest traditions, and these vivid tales of far-off days will introduce young readers to the country’s irresistible folklore.
Winter Bloom
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Eva, a teacher and young mother, is struggling to raise her four-year-old son on her own after the sudden death of her husband and daughter. Mrs. Prendergast, the mysterious and lonely widow next door rumored to have killed her husband thirty years ago and buried him in the backyard, allows Eva to cultivate her unused garden.
Unsung Hero
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Unsung Hero is the true story of Kevin Fulton, who as a boy dreamed of serving the British army, despite the growing tensions between the Crown and his own Catholic community in Northern Ireland. But shortly after achieving his miliatry ambition, it was precisely this status as a loyal subject from a hostile region that led Fulton to be recruited by the intelligence service.
The U.K. to U.S.A. Dictionary
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This handy little pocket-size book contains the differences between British English and American English. If you don't know your "billycock" from your "tribly," "take a shufti" through the U.K. to U.S.A. Dictionary.
The Truth About Love
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In a small town in 1960s Ireland, a teenage boy is killed in a dreadful accident. His sister, his mother, and a man who is a neighbor, each recalling her or his own life as permanently marked by the absolutely senseless death of the lad, paint in painful but hopeful brushstrokes their versions of the intertwining of love and loss and how the former makes the later endurable.
The Outside Boy
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Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth.
The Brightest Star in the Sky
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What could the occupants of 66 Star Street have in common that would attract the undivided attention of a sharp-witted and intuitive otherworldly spirit?
On the ground floor are newlyweds Maeve and Matt, struggling to overcome a traumatic incident that has threatened their storybook romance, while two flights up lives Katie, a hard-working PR manager for a struggling music label. A refreshing update on Brigit Jones, she just turned 40 and, although her social calender is booked solid, and she's snagged an impressive, wealthy man, she questions her life's purpose.
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