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  • A Funeral in Brooklyn
    Jim Farrell
    This novel was inspired by a rereading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It is one day in the life of Joseph Fitzgerald, August 15, 2015, the day his life-long love, Sharon, was buried.Half of the novel follows him through Brooklyn that day.The other half returns, in his mind, to the events that made their life together so memorable. Some sad, some joyful, some majestic, all wonderful....
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    23,23 €

  • The Friend of My Youth
    Jim Farrell
    Robert Penn Warren in his masterpiece All the King’s Men said you never forget the friend of your youth. No matter how he changes, he is always the same to you. This is a story of two such friends. How their lives go down separate paths, but their friendship remains. Even though they change, they are always the same to each other. ...
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    28,98 €

  • The Joyce Girls of Brooklyn
    Jim Farrell
    'Rebecca, Ruth, Deborah, and me, Rachel: the Joyce girls. No, we are not Jewish, but rather Irish. Our Mom, yes, Sarah-what else?-was the oldest offspring of a stern fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher, our grandfather, Isaiah Cummings.'So opens this wonderful family saga. Narrated by the youngest, Rachel, the writer, this is the story of the four daughters of Irish Catholic J...
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    18,38 €

  • The Whale’s Tale
    Jim Farrell
    Herman Melville’s version of Captain Ahab’s great chase after Moby Dick is considered the 'great American novel.' However very few living Americans have read it. It is considered too difficult or too tedious to get through.Herein is Moby Dick’s version of that chase. Besides giving readers a look at the adventure from a different perspective, Moby Dick has attempted to tell the...
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  • Realities
    Jim Farrell
    Realities: the fictional biography of Sam Turner, Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, Nobel Prize winner, Senior Faculty Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, Time Magazines Man of the Year 2018, co-developer of the Turner-Simcock Propulsion System (TSPS), which will enable mankind to travel to the stars, and lover of beauty, especially, but not limited to, th...
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    17,66 €

  • The Committee and Other Stories
    Jim Farrell
    Phil and Muriel move into a homeowners’ association-controlled community in Florida. Their one-eyed dog, Bennie, enables them to have the last laugh on an annoying committee.Widower George Wilson moves into an adult community in Florida where the widow-widower ratio is three to one. He also meets Adriana via his computer. Life is good for a widower at the Ocean Dunes, or is it?...
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    16,74 €

  • Up, Up, and Gone!
    James 'Jim' Farrell / James Jim Farrell
    From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the ’60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been ...
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    22,68 €

  • Mikey’s Quest for Father God
    Jim Farrell
    'When are these dupes and imbeciles going to wake up? Let me say again, and for the last time-there is no god-you fools.' When Mikey O’Rourke, a precocious eighth-grader, reads a Facebook post by his Uncle Billy, he’s shocked. After all, his family is Catholic. He’s even more surprised when his father tells him all his uncles-Billy, Ray, and Al-are atheists. Mikey doesn’t know ...
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    11,02 €

  • The Extraordinary Banana Tree
    Jim Farrell
    The Extraordinary Banana Tree is not a war story. It is a love story in the time of war. It is the story of the developing love between Cheryl Flynn, Assistance Chief of Intelligence for the Defense Attache’s Office in Saigon, and Billy Dobson, Manager of Flight Operations for Air America in Vietnam and Cambodia. The story opens on April 4, 1975, with Cheryl boarding the giant ...
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    17,04 €

  • Kiss Me, Kate and Other Stories
    Jim Farrell
    Phil discovers that Kate, the voice in his Garmin GPS, is a lot more than a disembodied voice. She’s in trouble, and she needs his help!When a couple arrives from cold Rhode Island to their rented condo in Florida, all they can think about is warm temperatures and sunshine. But then the husband walks into a moral dilemma that almost ruins his week in the sun.Betsy decides to me...
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    14,85 €

  • Brooklyn Boy
    Jim Farrell
    It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father’s stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through the screen window and onto the sand below. As the summer house, normally a place of peace and respite, disrupts into c...
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    19,67 €