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From a prolific Irish author with insight into modern male behavior, a story of childhood that is both funny and sad. It is 1975 in a small town near Dublin. Starsky and Hutch rule the television screen, and, in Northern Ireland, bombs are going off. It is a heady time for a boy whose life is about to change. His father is by day a delivery man for a bakery. Das dream, however, is to be a comedian, a stage performer, a star. Who can predict wh...

Billy is an average-looking sixteen-year-old who lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood on the north side of Dublin. Jesus, on the other hand, is a beautiful boy with continental manners, from the most sophisticated part of Barcelona. As an exchange student, Jesus comes to live with Billy's family for three weeks during the summer. At the end of his stay - according to The Plan - Billy will go back with Jesus on a return visit ...

An Irish emigrant in Germany tells his son about football, and about home, through nostalgia for a match played many years ago. This is the story of Euro '88, the largest football event on the continent, and the Irish team are front and center. The excitement is high for football fanatics like Eoin, Shane and Mick, all working abroad. Supporting the Irish team in Germany, they witness the highs and the lows and the cultural divides that separa...

A lodgers dark past comes back to haunt him. Nothing remarkable about Joe Brown. He is of average height and wears average clothes. His average looks are hidden behind a beard. But Joe Brown has a past that he wants to forget. He might have managed it, too. He might have moved on to a new life, if he hadnt answered an ad for a room to rent. But the beautiful Julia Ryan became his landlord, and in no time Joe Browns past, and his secret, catch ...

Can a tired marriage be saved by mans best friend? Jo and John are slowly drifting apart. Their marriage has been stalled for years, but they carry on, pretending to be together. Then the unthinkable happens: John is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Jo is overcome with sadness and regret. There just isn't enough time to rebuild their relationship, to fall in love again. But then a mysterious stray dog enters their lives. The scruffy fellow b...

A story of false friendship and following ones heart. Melissa and Sophie have been friends all their lives. Or thats what Sophie likes to think. Sophie is a giver, Melissa a taker. Their friendship is put to the test on vacation in Spain. When the gorgeous Paulo appears on the scene, Melissa drops Sophie like a hot potato. Hurt and furious, Sophie thinks the trip is a disaster. But things change when Sophie lends a little help to an old man an...

On any given day, in any given city, countless people are arriving and departing...to visit grandma, to close a business deal, to hook up with a lover, to climb a mountain. Intrepid traveler Luis is trapped in flight delay and has many hours to see and hear and sense his fellow passengers. As he grows more invisible, the kinetic world around him takes on a life of its own. Where can all these people be going? Where in the world do we belong?Pa...

Walace Weiss, A once-famous fantasy novelist, now troubled by drug addiction, sets himself on a final two-fold quest: to finish his first novel in over a decade, and, like the immortal elves of his stories, to try and remember what, in his long life, he should not have forgotten. Part of the prestigious Open Door Series, originally designed for adult literacy in Ireland, these books confirm the truth that a story doesn't have to be big to cha...