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Language
English
Description
Lifelong friends and occasional rivals, Kevin Brennan and Patrick Donahue enter seminary together, but their lives soon diverge dramatically. Intellectual and independent, Kevin achieves success as a scholar but often finds himself at odds with his superiors in the church. And his unwavering principles threaten to cut him off from those closest to him, including the former sweetheart he has never forgotten. By contrast, the ambitious Patrick rises...
3) Irish gold
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Dermot Coyne travels to Ireland to discover why his grandparents secretly fled during the Troubles, where he is aided in his search by the lovely Nuala McGrail, a student.
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
A poltergeist in the White House? Strange as it sounds, that seems to be the case. A playful spirit, of unknown origin, is at work in the First Residence: rattling chains, slamming doors, dislodging paintings, disrupting press conferences and state dinners.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Young Navy flier Jerry Keenan is supposed to be on his way home to Chicago, law school, and a postwar life that is socially acceptable to a well-off Irish Catholic family. Instead he is in Arizona delaying that homecoming while he wrestles with his memories of combat and the men he saw die.
That may be one reason an encounter with a girl at a Tucson lunch counter seems so appealing. Another reason is that she is mysterious, hauntingly beautiful,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A war hero on his third deployment in Iraq, Peter is injured and finds himself both alive and dead on a wondrous spiritual journey where he is given a second chance at life from God Himself. With Christmas approaching, time is running out for Peter to complete the most important mission of his life: convincing himself that he and Mariana, the woman he left behind in Chicago, were meant to share a special message of love with the world.
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
The Vatican has just assigned Auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Archbishop Cronin and the not-so-silent protests of Bishop Blackie. Bishop Quill is under the illusion, one might say delusion, that he has been sent from Rome to replace the good Cardinal, when in fact we know that Rome sent him to Chicago to get rid of him because of his incompetence.
Author
Series
Time between the stars volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
When an explosion rocks Ann's art gallery, the Deputy Superintendent of Police who is an old boyfriend, comes to investigate.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nuala Anne McGrail, now lives in Chicago with her husband Dermot, and their new baby, Nelliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mother and can see into the past as well as the future. Nuala is having a hugely successful career as a folksinger but she is being brutally attacked in the media by a schlock-jock named Nick Farmer, who says he's out to push her off the charts.
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Bishop Blackwood Ryan heads to the university on the south side of Chicago to investigate the murder of a Russian Orthodox Monk. Yet the mystery surrounding his murder is simple compared to the international intrigue that develops around the case.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In Ireland for a visit, sleuths Nuala McGrail of Chicago and her husband, Dermot Coyne, investigate the murder of an Irish revolutionary who was killed 70 years ago. The probe is made possible by Nuala's psychic ability.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Nuala Anne and her husband, Dermot Coyne, once again look into mysteries past and present: the first chronicled in the diaries of Father Richard Lonigan, a 19th-century parish priest in Donegal, Ireland, the second involving poor Damian "Day" O'Sullivan.
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Dermot Micahel Coyne isn't sure what he's gooten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch," has finally agreed to marry him. Her spitfire personality is quite a challenge, but living with "a dark one," someone gifted with second sight, may be more than Dermot cantake.
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English