2 fiction the banquet of ester rosenbaum penny simpson it is berlin 1929 the inflation-hungry city is edging towards disaster but seven-foot jewish orphan esther rosenbaum is serving up chocolate hearts stuffed with saffron pen nibs the bohemians artists and cabaret composers who sample her finest recipes in the legendary schorns restaurant have declared her germany s most celebrated chef yet it is a life built on quicksand schorns is owned by a gay black marketeer leon wolf but patronized by nazis now esther once a towering presence clad in her peacock tapestry skirts has stopped eating and is reducing herself to bone dressing as a man to blend into berlin s vicious night streets using a burlesque brand of magic realism penny simpson conjures fantastical elements to show how cookery can be an act of storytelling and imagination itself an act of subversion and survival villa fleurie deanna maclaren it s 1959 and at the imposing villa fleurie in cannes ilona beautiful rich and recently
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6 fiction crime mystery agnes molly merete andersen international book of the year tls the story of two friends agnes and molly and the man they both desire aksel the father of two children when aksel s ex-wife is taken ill he asks a favor of molly would she take care of his children in her summerhouse but agnes who is disabled is jealous of molly s relationship with aksel and his children when agnes comes to the summerhouse to help molly the real struggle for power begins with the women battling for the affections of the children this is a richly atmospheric novel about friendship jealousy and love bloodstorm sam millar karl kane is a private investigator with a dark past as a child he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his mother the same man sexually molested and stabbed karl leaving him for dead years later karl has a chance to avenge his mother s murder by killing the man responsible for reasons he later regards as cowardice karl allows the opportunity to slip through his
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10 biography the correspondence of edward hincks 1792-1866 edited by kevin j cathcart the second volume in a collection of letters from edward hincks the irish assyriologist and decipherer of mesopotamian cuneiform it contains his letters from 1850 to 1856 covering his discovery of the biblical king jehu `son of omri on the famous black obelisk of the assyrian king shalmaneser iii to his correspondence with henry fox talbot pioneer of photography who was also interested in cuneiform amongst hincks s correspondents were birch bopp grotefend hamilton lassen layard edwin norris renouard and peter le page renouf david trimble the price of peace revised and updated edition frank millar david trimble won the nobel peace prize for his role in securing the belfast agreement on good friday 1998 and he and his ulster unionist party paid the price in the 2005 general election by way of a shattering defeat inflicted by the rev ian paisley s democratic unionists the trimble story might have been l
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14 literature a passion for joyce the letters of hugh kenner adaline glasheen edited by edward m burns this volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned joyce scholars hugh kenner and adaline glasheen between 1953 and 1984 in these frank letters we are offered the opportunity to visit the creative process the letters have been carefully annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their published writings they do not hesitate to try out ideas on each other and they do not hesitate to express uncomfortable opinions their contributions to the common cause spark off each other reading colm toibin edited by paul delaney colm tóibín is a critically acclaimed internationally lauded and extremely popular writer who has written successfully across a variety of forms over the past twenty years however for all of his acclaim there is an extraordinary dearth of criticism on this prominent irish writer to date no fulllength studies of tóibín
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18 religion the hour of the tiger facing our fears megan mckenna prolific author speaker and giver of retreats megan mckenna could be regarded as a prophet a scripture scholar or a religious educator national catholic reporter prayer the heart of the gospels jim mccaffrey after a substantial preface on how to read the gospels the author dedicates a chapter to each of the four gospels showing how prayer features in each and highlighting the similarities and differences which arise the last two chapters refer to praying with the holy spirit and with mary and an appendix gives an extensive list of gospel passages suitable for use as prayer starters the hour of the tiger is about the present moment every moment it is about facing life and death fear and love about facing all the hard issues of life and all the mysterious deep places of living megan mckenna has embraced the image of the tiger and chosen it to represent those of us who face our fears head on or to highlight those of us wh
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22 religion over my shoulder a memoir norma macmaster norma mcmaster grew up in county cavan in the 1940s and 50s as a presbyterian this is a simple charming and very informative memoir of those times and of the experiences of a young girl growing up in a very close-knit family in clear harmony with their neighbors and yet holding on to their own distinctive culture and way of seeing things when silence falls the stations of the cross anna burke the stations of the cross whether celebrated in our christian communities or as private prayer call us into the depths of the mystery of god as we remember again the political social and religious systems that condemned violated and killed one innocent man we are faced with the truth of our own cultural time and the systems we ourselves support the journey with christ through the fear and through the darkness gives us a light and a strength an insight and a context when silence falls in our own lives this journey of intense suffering and sorrow
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26 us poetry ground forces paul allen the irresistible truthtelling at the heart of paul allen s work brings a joy of fellow feeling seldom available in contemporary poetry michael heffernan paul allen teaches courses in poetry form and meter and writing song lyrics at the college of charleston in charleston sc where he is professor of english his poems have appeared in a number of journals including northwest review and the southern review as well as in several anthologies finding the gossamer patrick hicks in several versions of ancient mythology the spider is the creator of the universe a weaver of reality a goddess that has built an intricate web to support the story of life our lives and the lives of the dead are threaded together they form an intricate pattern of love loss ancestry and home by teasing out these delicate intersections hicks explores how we are connected to the world around us november 5 x 8 72 pages salmon isbn 978-1-903392-82-9 1-903392-82-9 paper $23.95 conflic
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30 poetry time gentlemen please kevin higgins kevin higgins was born in london in 1967 and grew up in galway city where he still lives he is co-organizer of the highly successful over the edge literary events his first collection of poems the boy with no face was short-listed for the 2006 strong award he is the poetry critic of the galway advertiser and also regularly reviews for books in canada the canadian review of books in daily accord frank golden in daily accord presents a selection of short poems written on a daily basis over a twenty-month period loosely based on haiku and senryu forms they are instanter reductions of golden s quotidian reality a variety of voices and echoes from the greater world move with the narrator through the months the tension lies not in the drama of what is unfolded but in the obliquely configured lines of a charted life and the quizzical insights that are brought forth november 5 x 8 110 pages salmon isbn 978-1-903392-75-1 1-903392-75-6 paper $23.95 a
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34 childrens michael collins most wanted man vincent mcdonnell michael collins is one of the most famous figures in irish history he became the most wanted man in the british empire a minister in the first irish government and commander-in-chief of the army he helped to negotiate the treaty which allowed britain to keep the six counties many fellow fighters refused to settle for this leading to the irish civil war and the 1922 ambush in which collins was killed by former comrades of mcdonnell s previous books for children what a great way to encourage a young person to read irish american news moxie the underdog annie west when moxie a weather beaten dog with a bullet hole in his ear mysteriously arrives on a farm where the animals are cowed by a rude and nasty bull the scene is set for a confrontation between street smart moxie and the bully moxie teaches the rest of the farmyard animals to stand their ground stick to their guns and take the bull by the horns featuring a cast of anim
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38 veritas backlist parenting preschoolers and young children a practical guide to promoting confidence learning and good behaviour by john sharry 2005 isbn 9781853909153 paper $14.95 passio meditations on the way by christy kenneally 1998 isbn 9781853902383 saddle $4.95 pathways to god the spiritual classics by kevin nichols 2001 isbn 9781853905926 cloth $30.95 peace now is the time northern ireland by cahal b daly 1993 isbn 9781853902321 saddle $2.95 pilgrimage in grace cardinal basil hume 1923-1999 by kevin nichols 2000 isbn 9781853903892 saddle $4.95 prayer according to the scriptures by jean laplace 1991 isbn 9781853901676 paper $10.95 prayer praise and glory by jean beyer 1991 isbn 9781853901720 saddle $8.95 prayers of two people traditional irish and scottish verse-prayers by stephen redmond isbn 9781853903366 saddle $4.95 praying the beatitudes a retreat on the sermon on the mount by max oliva 1990 isbn 9781853900396 paper $14.95 proclaiming the promise refle
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author index allen ground forces 26 alvi europa 29 alvi split world 29 ambrose godfather of the revolution 11 andersen agnes molly 6 austin very 29 bager object found 27 banotti there s something about mary 12 basci world leaders favourite poems 31 batchelor sinking road 28 bennett all the dogs 6 bohan tracking the tiger 25 bowen just another mzungu passing through 4 brooks jampot smith 4 broughton other useful numbers 3 browne music and madness 12 browne unfulfilled promise 10 burke tribute to andy mcgann 16 burke when silence falls 22 burns passion for joyce 14 carpenter thornfield an anthology of poems 30 carter bad press 7 cashman that morning will come 27 cathcart correspondence of edward hincks 10 cave irish theatre in england 15 charles beautiful sound of silence 1 child celtic prayers and reflections 18 clark transitions 15 coghlan glass of homemade lemonade 22 condon power of dreams 20 corbett brian friel 15 curtis lightning tree 5 daly breaking of bread 19 dancing bear conf
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