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 chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just one of the many escapades he will experience growing up as an Irish Catholic boy in Brooklyn and Long Beach. Brian embarks on a memorable coming-of-age...
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...
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 chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just one of the many escapades he will experience growing up as an Irish Catholic boy in Brooklyn and Long Beach. Brian embarks on a memorable coming-of-age...
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...
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 memorialize her deceased parents....in a most unusual way.Young, innocent Cheryl shocks her mother by opening the conversation at the family's Sunday dinner with "I almost got involved in a bar fight yesterday."Larry...
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 coup...
"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 C5A sent by Gerry Ford to rescue orphans from South Vietnam. The plane crashed 13 miles south of Saigon. Does Cheryl survive? Does anyone survive?
The story goes back in time and follows Cheryl and Billy on...
"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 Fl...
"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 C5A sent by Gerry Ford to rescue orphans from South Vietnam. The plane crashed 13 miles south of Saigon. Does Cheryl survive? Does anyone survive?
The story goes back in time and follows Cheryl and Billy on...
"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 Fl...
"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 ORourke, a precocious eighth-grader, reads a Facebook post by his Uncle Billy, hes shocked. After all, his family is Catholic. Hes even more surprised when his father tells him all his uncles-Billy, Ray, and Al-are atheists. Mikey doesnt know how to handle this newfound information.
In his novel Mikeys Quest for Father God, author Jim Farrell tells how Mikey leaves behind his shock and surprise to learn why people have such different beliefs...
"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."
The Barge of Curiosity - ride it if you want to experience life and love. Share the lives, loves, and adventures of Sandy Roberts, Peggy Mayhew, and Mark Tuttle who are involved in a lifelong love triangle with Sandy as the focus. Meet Maddie Tuttle, described by her mother as, "My primogenita, the little girl who gave me an insight into the Trinity, the little girl who survived the rush of the riptide inside my womb, the little girl about whom I asked, 'Can you love all your children the same, and yet love one more than the others?', my living Alexandra the Mouse, the last family member to...
The Barge of Curiosity - ride it if you want to experience life and love. Share the lives, loves, and adventures of Sandy Roberts, Peggy Mayhew, and M...
