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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Auxiliary Bishop Blackie Ryan heads for Rome at the request of the Archbishop of Paris to find the missing Friar Jean-Claude, a popular Dominican priest and TV idol, and uncovers secrets that could be embarrassing to the Church.

The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain

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Andrew M. Greeley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.

Irish Cream

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One tiny defect in corner of dust cover. See photo 

For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained Packy Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. The rich and prominent Old House families of Chicago banded together to protect their own - the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. The car had belonged to Leo, whose family was middle class, so the police quickly arrested him and tried to force a confession. To make matters more complicated, half a million dollars in counterfeit bills had been found in the trunk. There was a cover-up and a vicious scandal. Leo left for the Korean War, and the three friends' summers at the lake were gone forever... Until thirty years later - when Leo, still obsessed by the memory of Jane and the need to solve the mystery of what really happened that fateful summer, comes back to Chicago and back to the lake. Jane is more beautiful than ever, but her life has been an unhappy one, trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by the memory of Leo. She has returned to the lake to try to piece her life back together. Disillusioned with the priesthood, Packy realizes he's in love with Jane, too. But as a best friend and confidant to Leo and Jane, he faces a difficult choice this summer: should he help his oldest friend win back the woman of his dreams or pursue what might be his own last chance for love?

Summer at the Lake

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Former library copy with plastic library cover.

Georgia

A Bishop Blackie Ryan Novel

Bishop Ryan heads for a local university to investigate the assassination of a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School, a case that ignites a storm of international intrigue and dark secrets.

The Bishop Goes to the University

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

A Cronicle of the O'Malley's in the Twentieth Century

Accompanied by his long-suffering but devoted wife, Rosemarie, trouble-prone Chucky Cronin O'Malley becomes embroiled in the turbulent events of the 1960s.

September Song

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Texas

Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

A collection of fantasy tales based on the history, culture, legends, and lore of Ireland features contributions by Ray Bradbury, Tanith Lee, Peter Tremayne, Jane Yolen, Diane Duane, Judith Tarr, and Morgan Llywelyn.

Emerald Magic

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Former library book. Has stickers from library under plastic protective cover. Has library stamp inside front cover and a library sticker inside back cover. Book is in good condition.

Tennessee

A Christmas Story

The Irish-Catholic Flanagans of Chicago think themselves religious, until the arrival of Odessa, a Russian Orthodox woman brought home by son Jack for Christmas. They discover a real believer.

Star Bright!

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Louisiana

A novel of modern Ireland, a country that is sometimes plagued by violence as Nuala Ann McGrail and her husband, Dermot, embark on another thrill-packed adventure in search of a long-lost treasure, a quest that could threaten their lives.

Irish Love

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The beautiful and fey--as they say in the Old Country--Nuala Anne McGrail uses her psychic abilities to help solve mysteries. But even she will admit with a smile that she couldn't do it without Dermot Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and self-proclaimed "spear carrier." Now both living in Chicago, their unique courtship is once again interrupted by one of Nuala's "spells." On a quiet street on the South Shore, she is overwhelmed by the screaming of thousands of dying men--Confederate soldiers held as prisoners of war. Soon the pair are caught up in a Civil War controversy, and an all-too-present-day mystery involving a sophisticated gang of art thieves, corrupt politicians, and international terrorists. But Dermot is cheerfully resigned, for as he well knows, life with Nuala will never be simple. After all, she's like Irish lace--"thin and delicate and pretty, and just a little bit complicated."

Lot of 4 paperback books - Irish Lace plus 3 more 

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North Carolina

In their investigation of strange vibrations from a place on Lake Michigan where a shipload of Irish Americans lost their lives a hundred years ago, Nuala Anne McGrail, her infant daughter Nelliecoyne, and her husband make some enemies, discover a murder, and find a buried treasure.

Irish Eyes

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California

Bishop Blackie Ryan, called in to perform an exorcism, raises some deadly questions when he sets out to discover who is trying to kill the rich and famous Bart Cain.

Happy Are the Poor in Spirit

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A sizzling novel of passion, faith, and sinful secrets from the bestselling author of Wages of Sin. Father Laurence McAuliffe must investigate the tainted past of a man who didn't always believe in God, who possibly fathered a child--a man who is now being considered for canonization by the Catholic Church. (An) engrossing mixture of intrigue, politics, sex . . .a surpise ending --Publishers Weekly.

An Occasion of Sin

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For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. The rich and prominent "Old House" families of Chicago banded together to protect their own - the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. There was a cover-up and a vicious scandal. Leo left for the Korean War, and the three friends' summers at the lake were gone forever. . . Until thirty years later when Leo, still obsessed by the memory of Jane and the need to solve the mystery of what really happened that fateful summer, comes back to Chicago and back to the lake. Jane is more beautiful than ever, but her life has been an unhappy one, trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by the memory of Leo. She has returned to the lake to try to piece her life back together. Disillusioned with the priesthood, Packy realizes he's in love with Jane, too. But as a best friend and confidant to Leo and Jane, he faces a difficult choice this summer: should he help his oldest friend win back the woman of his dreams or pursue what might be his own last chance for love?

Nuala Anne McGrail is almost more than any poor mortal man can handle without losing his sanity: her beauty causes shortness of breath in men of all ages, she's strong, she's smart, she's witty, she sings like an angel, and--to top it all off--she's psychic, or fey as they say in the Old Country. But our man Dermot Michael Coyne, "accidental millionaire," part-time writer, and full-time worshiper of Nuala, seems to be bearing up pretty well in as much as Herself has consented to marry him. Before that blissful day arrives, another one of Nuala's "spells" sends the pair on a hunt to find out what really happened to Al Capone's famous rival, Jimmy "Sweet Rolls" Sullivan. And as they've found in previous adventures, historic mysteries can often be too current for safety, and the dead should be left buried--wherever they are.

Irish Whiskey

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Based on the Old Testament's Book of Tobias, an uplifting love story by the author of White Smoke features a computer programmer who is helped by a modern guardian angel to find his perfect mate. Reprint.

Angel Light

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Irish Lace

Not since his runaway bestseller, The Cardinal Sins, has Father Andrew Greeley written such a searing and topical novel about the state of the Catholic Church. The Priestly Sins tells the story of Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young man from the distant prairies of the Great Plains. In the summer of his first parish appointment, Hoffman is swept up in the Crisis after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. He tells the pastor, the father of the victim, and the local police but is rebuffed by the archbishop. Soon he is vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police and learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic church: he is locked up in a mental-health center and then sent into exile to do graduate study. In Chicago to study immigrant history, he encounters the local "Vicar for Extern Priests," the legendary monsignor Blackie Ryan, who helps him regain his confidence. Hoffman returns home to demand a parish of his own from the archbishop. Reluctantly, the church hierarchy assigns him to a dying parish, but by his zeal and charm he revives the local church. His brief idyll is shattered by a subpoena to testify in a court hearing. If he speaks, he will have to take on the "downtown" establishment that is determined to destroy him and many of his fellow priests who want to be rid of this painful reminder of a sinful past. He faces exile not only from his parish but from the priesthood itself. Written from the author's fifty years of experience as a priest, The Priestly Sins will be criticized by some but embraced by most for this all-too-candid story of all-too-human priests. The Priestly Sins is Father Greeley's most electrifying novel in three decades.

The Priestly Sins

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The perils of wartime add special urgency to latest mysteries being investigated by Nuala Anne McGrail and her adoring husband, Dermot Coyne.   More than a little fey, Nuala has a well-deserved reputation for getting to the bottom of even the most tangled intrigues, even when they may be taking place on the other side of the world.
 
Desmond Doolin, an idealistic young man from their West Side Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in Iraq.  Having flown off to the Middle East in the name of peace, he hasn't been heard of since.  The U.S. government denies any knowledge of his whereabouts, and his grieving family has all but written him off as dead, but Nuala is convinced that there's more to the story . . . and herself won't stop asking questions until she finds out what has really become ofDesmond, one way or another.
 
Meanwhile, a parallel investigation uncovers the story of another young man abroad in dangerous times.  Poking around in the past, Dermot and Nuala happen upon the memoirs of Timothy Patrick Clarke, the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, who risked his life for the sake of a beautiful German widow . . . and a secret plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
 
Working together as always, Nuala and her husband find themselves engrossed in the secrets of the past, the present, and two very different wars. 
 
Irish Linen is another captivating installment in a series thatPublishers Weekly calls "immensely entertaining."

Irish Linen

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When three people are murdered in a church that has long represented a bulwark against change in its venerable Chicago neighborhood, Bishop "Blackie" Ryan enlists a psychic cop and a Sicilian attorney in what he believes is a campaign of terror.

The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

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Bishop Blackie must solve a century old murder in order to break a chain of deaths in the wealthy Cardin family and save the next victim.

Happy Are the Oppressed

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As the O'Malleys mourn their father's death, their unity is disrupted by the increasingly erratic behavior of Chucky's unhappy and emotionally unstable older sister, igniting a family crisis that ultimately threatens the lives of both young and old O'Malleys.

Golden Years

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"Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood Murder in the sanctuary of the Church "
The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing.
Now three dead bodies have been left in the sanctuary, stripped, mutilated, and shot through the head, execution-style. A warning to those who would remake the neighborhood---or to St. Lucy's charismatic monsignor, who has made a few enemies of his own?
Dispatched by his cardinal to investigate, Bishop "Blackie" Ryan fears that the atrocious murders are only the beginning of a campaign of terror directed at this particular church. But to solve the mystery, and to banish the evil gathering over the community, Blackie will need an unexpected assist from his own long-dead father, as well as the help of Declan O'Donnell, a savvy young cop with a touch of the second sight, and of Camilla Datilo, a radiant assistant state's attorney of Sicilian origins.
"""The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood" is another charming and compelling page-turner by bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley.


PS: EX-LIBRARY BOOK

A student in 1940s Notre Dame University gets into trouble for taking a photograph of his girlfriend in a bikini. She is also a drinker and when beer bottles are found under his bed he is expelled. The two reunite at the University of Chicago.

Massachusetts

Father Andrew M. Greeley returns to the saga of the OMalley family with his signature blend of humor, classic North American values, and heartrending storytelling. Charles Chucky Cronin OMalley has come home to Chicago in one piece after a chaotic tour in postWWII Germany. Anxious to attend Notre Dame and get his life back in order, Chucky is quickly sidetracked by the beautiful, raven-haired, haunting (and haunted) Rosemarie, a girl as fresh-faced and clever as she is doomed. Conflicts with a mob boss and a tendency to ruffle the feathers of those in charge combine to land Chucky in even more hot water. Luckily, a quick wit and an oldfashioned sense of right and wrong (along with a dose of Heavenly help) save him when tensions reach the boiling point. Can Chucky come of age in a difficult and heady time, holding on to his integrity while discovering the secret to love? Praise for A Midwinters Tale: In this deft addition to his shelf of novels, Greeley once again shows his knack for combining solid characterizations, folksy prose, a bantamweight sense of history and understated Catholic morality to make highly entertaining fiction. ~ Publishers Weekly A richly plotted, entertaining tale. ~ Kirkus Reviews Sentimentality and nostalgia for bygone days underlie this coming-of-age story from Greeley. Fans will love it. ~ Library Journal

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Andrew M. Greeley

The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain

Andrew M. Greeley

Irish Cream

Andrew M. Greeley

Summer at the Lake

Andrew M. Greeley

The Bishop Goes to the University

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September Song

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Emerald Magic

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Star Bright!

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Irish Love

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Irish Eyes

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Happy Are the Poor in Spirit

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An Occasion of Sin

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Summer at the Lake

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Irish Whiskey

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Angel Light

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Irish Lace

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The Priestly Sins

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Irish Linen

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