Sean Desmond

It's 1987 and life as normal is ending for the Malone family. With their sterile Dallas community a far cry from the Bronx of their youth, Pat and Anne have reached a breaking point. Pat, faced with a debilitating MS diagnosis, has fallen into his drinking. Anne, his devoutly Catholic wife, is selected as a juror for a murder trial that raises questions she has buried her entire life. Together, they try to raise their only son, Daniel, a bright but unmotivated student who is shocked into actual learning by an enigmatic English teacher.

Sophomores

Robert Gibbings

This is a collection of northern and southern Irish traditions, proverbs, wit and wisdom. The jokes, for example, are generally based on the failings of men in a particular locality.

Wit and Wisdom

A Touch of the Irish

"If you have a roving eye, it's no use having the other one fixed on heaven." "A secret buried in a sober heart can come to life on drunken lips." For the Irish, or those who would like to be, this collection of Irish traditions, jokes, sayings, proverbs, wit and wisdom on subjects such as religion, curses, superstitions and blessings, provides a spicy Irish stew of entertainment.

Touch of the Irish

There are worse places an Ivy Leaguer, desperate to restore a tattered academic career, can pass the mist-shrouded New England autumn of his senior year. There is serenity on the secluded fourth floor of the cavernous stone dormitory, marred only by the occasional echoed footfall on the stairs of muffled voice in the corridor. The atmosphere is ripe for quiet study--until it begins... Floorboards creak in seemingly deserted hallways. Phantom whispers stir the silence. Invisible eyes seems to lurk, watching. At last, an enigmatic stranger emerges from the shadows, claiming to be a fellow student. But nobody else can see or hear the presence that seeps in like fog rolling off the Charles River. Nobody else can sense, with growing dread, the terrible truth... Decades have passed since the murky accident that claimed the lives of three Adams House residents. But somebody wants to relive--and punish--the sins of the past. Somebody is preying on the dorm's current occupants, even as one of their peers descends slowly into a surreal world where madness meets mayhem; where nothing is certain but the chilling suspicion that what has happened before can--and must--happen once again...

Abandon

A Harvard senior, coping with a highly pressurized existence, feels his sanity begin to slip when a ghostly inhabitant of his residence begins to plague him about his ex-roommate's suicide and the mutilation murder of his girlfriend. Originally published as Adam's Fall. Reprint. (A Paramount film, directed by Stephen Gaghan, releasing Winter 2002, starring Katie Holmes & Benjamin Bratt) (Horror)

Sean Desmond

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