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There is a deep, rich vein of spirituality running through The Scribe, a novel that resurrects the life of Luke the Evangelist. After the crucifixion of Jesus, in its immediate aftermath, a young widower and member of the Sanhedrin becomes disillusioned with the high priests and begins to adopt a Christian way of thinking. Forced to leave Jerusalem, he finds himself in a time that heralded the birth of the gospels.

Described by one reviewer as "bloody accurate", The Nationalists is an Irish story set against the bloody backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War. From the author of The Scribe, The Soaring Spirit, Kolbe, and Land of Our Father comes a sweeping new novel that spans the turbulent years in Irish history - 1916 to 1923. It tells the story of a doomed love affair between a revolutionary journalist and a headstrong Kerry-born Cumann na mBan girl.

Larry is left an orphan following the brutal murder of his parents. When three Cuban children, recently orphaned themselves, appeal to Larry for help, he has to take up their case. Larry - a 12-year-old who fends mostly for himself in a rambling mansion on the Hill of Howth, in Dublin - is a direct descendant the Children of Lir, and a curse from their time hangs over Larry.

The tale is a post-911 piece and concerns the hunt for an ISIS terrorist cell intent on carrying out a dirty bomb attack on the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. The group is led by the fanatical Hakim, a Saudi terrorist who used to work as an executioner in his home country. When he finds out that there is a tough cop called Mano out to stop him, he makes a near-fatal error of judgement by ordering a hit on one of Hawaii's top cops - a move that will bring in the FBI and homeland security - and makes Mano aware of the threat against him.

Charlie Evans is a troubled teenager living in Gorey, County Wexford. When he falls foul of the law, his parents take radical action and pack him off to India for a year's schooling. At first, he rebels against this treatment. Removed from his comfort zone, he continues getting into trouble. Slowly, however, he settles into his new way of life in India. He befriends a boy of his own age, who introduces him to the world of cricket, and he falls for Sharu, his new friend's sister.

A killer is loose aboard a Virginia class submarine, and it's a race against time for Captain Russell Grant to find him. With the USS Obama on a war footing, Captain Russell Grant takes extraordinary measures to pin down the murderer before morale plummets aboard and his mission is scuppered beyond repair. He promotes a female member of the crew to chief warrant officer, and she's soon joined in her investigation by two federal agents specially flown out to examine the circumstances.

In the wake of the Stalker and Sampson inquiries and the Good Friday Agreement, a new threat emerges from the heartland of Belfast to threaten the peace process. Renegades opposed to the process form a splinter group designed to wreck the peace process. The British send in an expendable chief superintendent to investigate the group, and his high ideals are shattered by a betrayal from the very top of the establishment.

The hunt for a cop killer in New York throws up all the horrors of the Vietnam War. An NYPD procedural introducing Detective Michael Casoni.

With the USS Obama again on a war footing, NCIS agent Jennifer Hobbs races against time to stave off a nuclear conflagration. Somebody has declared war on the US by targeting its new space program.

Following the beast from the east snowstorm, two young Irish children encounter a Snownun who imparts important lessons to them about survival, civic issues, and polar opposites like life and death. It's a book about teaching children the importance of life in this world and in heaven beyond. It teaches something about diversity and illness, about generosity of spirit and helping others less fortunate in society, and ultimately it shows something of the values of friendship and family love.