Brendan Walsh
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Maxi Dillion finds himself back home, living with his eighty-year-old mother after living in New York City for twenty-five years. He thinks nobody knows the real purpose of his homecoming. He's wrong. Rumors with dorsal fins, circulate about the small town. Some say he's home to rob banks, others say, he's home to sell drugs. Cillian Mulcahy knows the real reason... he owes money to the mob.While Maxi's out running errands for his mother, he bumps...
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Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such as the Royal Dublin Society); their emergence of independent, highly motivated scholarly and philanthropic individuals who operated within local...
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A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR MENTAL HEALTH.
On September 30th, 2019, I left on a journey down the Atlantic Coast of the United States. From Madawaska, Maine, on the border of Canada to the southernmost point Key West, Florida, I rode for 11 days, 9 hours, and 33 minutes, covering 2,288 miles and set a new Guinness World Record for the Fastest Crossing of America by Bicycle (North to South). A month before the original start date I was hit by a car, totaling...
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For many people, the mention of Papua New Guinea will evoke images such as remote highlands cultures and tribal warriors; or perhaps tropical islands and palm fringed beaches, or it may bring to mind darker images of poverty, corruption and raskol violence. But in PNG's capital, Port Moresby, things are starting to look a little different. PNG is slowly joining the globalised world, and if you look closely at this society in transition you can see...
5) Centigrade
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In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren't high enough, it is revealed that Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Will...
7) Centigrade
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In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren't high enough, it is revealed that Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface.
8) UFO
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"Derek, a brilliant college student haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, believes that the mysterious sightings reported at multiple airports across the United States are UFOs. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie, and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks, Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI Special Agent Franklin Ahls on his heels."--
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Revealing look into the shocking life of notorious cult leader Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church. Through brainwashing and abuse, the former "President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator" seized control of his followers' lives and an organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Currently serving a life sentence for his crimes, the former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, Warren Jeffs, is more powerful than ever, exerting total authority over his flock....