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  • The Mustard Seed 2095
    John T Hourihan
    In 2095, we are worshipping the wrong god.Raphael Aronson is not concerned with things like religion and the meaning of life. His work is to create political resumes for people running in bogus elections where the winner is determined in advance of the vote. But when his friend is found dead, and it looks a lot like murder, he no longer cares about work. He cares about finding ...
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  • The Eighth Commandment
    John T. Hourihan
    What does it mean for our country to have a free press? What happens when constraints are inflicted upon the media?To seven-year-old Kevin O’Connor, the smell of printer’s ink was the most delightful smell in the world. Back then, printer’s ink was the lifeblood of the local newspaper and, in some ways, of the town.Kevin began working for his hometown newspaper when he was in h...
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  • Baltimore Catechism
    John T. Hourihan
    Those who were never in war forgot that war is hell. It is not a euphemism. It is actually hell. He’d survived elementary school with the nuns. He lived through a year in the southwest, making friends in the barrio. He endured the class warfare of his Massachusetts high school.So when college did not work out the way he’d thought it would, John did the next best thing: he enlis...
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  • Mass of the Faithful
    John T. Hourihan
    Moving was a constant, and often necessary, way of life for John. By the age of thirteen, his family had moved ten times. And now, as a freshman in high school, they would move again. To a place called Hopedale, a predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant town, a place where he was looked at as nothing more than an Irish punk.He promised his mother he’d try, really try, to ma...
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  • Baltimore Catechism
    John T. Hourihan / John THourihan
    When readers first met John as a young boy in the book Baltimore Catechism: Clean Slate, he had just begun attending Catholic school and spent much of his time trying to discern exactly what the nuns were teaching him and what it really meant to follow the rules.Now, John and his family face major life obstacles: housing, health and finances. When John’s parents decide their on...
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  • Baltimore Catechism
    John T. Hourihan / John THourihan
    'My entry into concentrated Catholicism, a forced alteration in my DNA, was to take place today.' So begins John’s parochial education in this enchanting, semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy ready to learn the mysteries of the Universe. First-grader John has an interesting perspective on life, much to the dismay of the nuns at the Catholic school he attends. To them, boys...
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  • BEYOND THE FENCE
    Amanda Eppley / John Hourihan
    There is a perversion of the American Dream that says greed is good, and that we should live, love, work, and advance inside the fences drawn by politics, religion, and laws. It is wrong. Through senseless inner-city death, the My Lai massacre, the taking of the Pueblo, a drug-addled return from Vietnam, and a trip across the United States with a Frisbee, the authors tell how T...
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    16,31 €

  • Play Fair And Win
    John Hourihan
    Every year, thousands of people volunteer their time and experience to become youth coaches. Play Fair and Win not only teaches the basic drills needed to run a successful team, but also demonstrates to prospective coaches how they can form a winning team while remaining true to the principles that made baseball America’s favorite pastime.Drawing on his experience in coaching b...
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    11,27 €