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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
BookView Ireland
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BookView Ireland :: May, 2005 :: Issue No.118
From Irish Emigrant Publications,
the free news service for the global Irish community
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Editor: Pauline Ferrie :: Copyright 2005 Irish Emigrant Ltd
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This monthly supplement to the Irish Emigrant reviews books
recently published in Ireland, and those published overseas which
have an Irish theme. A searchable database of all books reviewed
by us over the last six years is now available at
http://www.bookviewireland.ie
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____CONTENTS
Bestseller Lists
Reviews
- Company of Three – Jennifer McCann
- Hanging Crimes – Ed. Frank Sweeney
- Family Baggage – Monica McInerney
- Haughey's Forty Years of Controversy – T. Ryle Dwyer
- Deadlier Than the Male – David M. Kiely
- Nothing Simple – Lia Mills
- Georgina Campbell's Ireland
- The Boghole Boys – Gabriel Fitzmaurice
- New Hibernia Review – Ed Thomas Dillon Renshaw
- Beastly Jokes – Shay Healy
- More Beastly Jokes – Shay Healy
- In the Bestsellers but not reviewed
General News
- Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize
- The Open Door Book of Poetry
- First New Biography of Pope Benedict XVI Published
- History Ireland – May/June 2005
- Listowel Writers' Week 2005
- Kate O'Brien's papers for UL
- Joyce Exhibition in Belfast
- Clarke papers presented to UCD
- Newly published books
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____BESTSELLERS LIST
Paperback Fiction:
1. Trace, Patricia Cornwell – Time Warner
2. Moments – ed. Ciara Considine
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown – Corgi
4. Little Criminals, Gene Kerrigan - Vintage
5. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason - Arrow
Paperback Non-fiction:
1. Golden Apples, Bill Cullen - Hodder
2. The Official Driver Theory Test - Prometric
3. Dublin City and District Street Guide – Ordnance Survey of
Ireland
4. The Choice, Bernadette Bohan - Thorsons
5. The Tiger's Child, Torey L. Hayden (Element)
Hardback Fiction
1. A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry – Faber
2. The Closers, Michael Connelly - Orion
3. The Black Angel, John Connelly – Hodder & Stoughton
4. Fourth of July, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
5. Always and Forever, Cathy Kelly – Harper Collins
Hardback Non-fiction:
1. The Irish Examiner: 100 Years of News – Gill & Macmillan
2. Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings for When You Go on the Batter,
Colin Murphy & Donal O'Dea – O'Brien
3. Elvis: By the Presleys, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley
et al - Century
4. Voices and Poetry of Ireland – Harper Collins
5. Italy: Eyewitness Travel Guides – Dorling Kindersley
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____REVIEWS
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Company of Three – Jennifer McCann
Jennifer McCann's first novel is a light-hearted look at the
ups and downs of life for three young people sharing a house in
Dublin. Narrated by Anna, a junior editor in a publishing house,
the story takes us into her own life, that of her new landlord,
Angela, and the other tenant, Marcus. Much space is devoted to the
love lives of Anna, Angela and Linda, Anna's boss, with the
intrusive presence also of Marcus' ex-fiancee Isobel.
The action centres mainly on Marcus, Anna and Angela, with
the latter having become involved with Xavier, a relationship much
frowned upon by her two tenants. The differing backgrounds of the
three provide an interesting slant on the development of the story;
Marcus the only son in a family of girls, all of whom dote on him;
Anna with brothers who cannot put a foot wrong, it seems to her; and
Angela, the only non-achiever in her family though she does run her
own bookstore. The effect on Anna of these two is starkly
contrasted; Angela is constantly trying to improve her while Marcus
generates a relationship based on a kind of big brother banter.
However there is a certain inevitability about the plot which
lessens the enjoyment. Of course Marcus and Anna fall in love and,
after an initial blip, fall into each other's arms. Angela almost
walks down the aisle with Xavier and her sudden revelation as to his
real character does not quite ring true. However there are some
minor characters who help to keep the story moving along. Anna's
mother who, after years of widowhood suddenly announces an impending
marriage, Tony the ex-prisoner who is stalking Anna, and Linda and
James in the publishing house, all contribute to what is a relaxing
and entertaining book, if a touch predictable.
(Tivoli, ISBN 0-7171-3818-6, pp380, EU9.99)
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Hanging Crimes - ed. Frank Sweeney
The last hanging took place in Ireland in 1954 and the last
public hanging in 1868. The ten cases covered in this volume focus
on the crimes of the nineteenth century, and many were heavily
influenced by the agrarian unrest prevalent throughout the country,
but particularly in counties Tipperary and Roscommon. Fear and
intimidation played a great part in the ability of witnesses to tell
the truth - something with echoes into the 21st century - as did
tribal loyalties, whether the dispossessed peasantry or the
beleaguered landlord class.
While most of the crimes recorded here which led to the
gallows were of murder, one dealt with a case of rape, also a
capital crime at the time, along with arson and treason. The fact
that the case involved two people of the landlord class, Sarah
Sutton and James Lidwell, whose families had been friends for a
number of years, led to a number of difficulties, not least the fact
that Sarah Sutton told nobody but her mother of the rape until a
number of days had passed. The subsequent trial not only led to the
conviction of James Lidwell, but also to the unveiling of a number
of unreconciled reports of the movements of Sarah Sutton, as well as
casting doubts on the fidelity of her husband, Jacob Sutton.
An example of a crime which was immediately ascribed by
those in authority to "Ribbonmen" or other members of illegal
societies is the editor's account of the murder of Charlotte Hinds,
a landowner in Co. Cavan who had alienated a number of her tenants
by her ruthless determination to re-establish her estate after the
Famine years. As happened many times in Irish courts in the
nineteenth century, one of those involved turned "approver" and gave
evidence against his co-conspirators, resulting in the hanging of
two men, James Murphy and Thomas Dunne.
Influenced by the establishment of the Land League in 1879
by Michael Davitt, farmers on the Wicklow-Kilkenny border were
prompted to take action over their grievances about high rents paid
to incomer landlords. In this instance the target of the
assassination attempt, Thomas Boyd, was only slightly injured while
his son Charles was fatally wounded.
The authors of these accounts, many of them graduates of the
Masters in Local History at NUI Maynooth, record the details of the
hangings. Perhaps one of the most graphic descriptions is given in
Sean Bagnall's account of the murder of John Kinlen in Tallaght in
1816. This hanging preceded the introduction of the knot to break
the neck, and Bagnall relates how the victim of the gallows
"struggled for air in considerable pain". He goes on to say, "..it
was not unusual for relatives to attach themselves to the legs of
the hanging person as they hoped by adding extra weight to speed up
the process and shorten the pain". Of the three men convicted of
the murder of John Kinlen, a father and two sons, one, we are told,
was "unusually tall" and it became necessary for the hangman to take
a spade and dig a hole beneath the feet of the man "until the victim
could find no further support".
In addition to recounting the tales of murder and rape and
supplying details of the way in which trials were conducted in 19th
century Ireland, the contributors have offered a glimpse of how
local society functioned, of the interaction between landlord and
tenant, the morality of rebellion, the cohesiveness of the various
strata of that society and the way in which pressure was brought to
bear to conform to the social mores of the time.
(Mercer Crime, ISBN 185635, pp284, EU12.95)
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Family Baggage – Monica McInerney
"Family Baggage" is an apt title for the story of a family
which runs its own travel company, but the baggage referred to is,
of course, of a much more metaphysical nature. As in her novel
"Alphabet Sisters", the author moves the narrative backwards and
forwards between Australia, England and Ireland, much facilitated by
the nature of the family business. Harriet Turner has worked with
her parents, her brother James and his wife Melissa in the family
business until she suffers a breakdown, and it is her re-entry into
the world of tour guides that commands the larger part of the story.
While ostensibly a tale of family friction, tragic death and
misunderstandings, the author manages to inject some humour into the
situation by making the tour to Cornwall soap opera-based. This
provides a wonderful cast of comic characters from the forceful Mrs
Pemberton to the winsome Ms Talbot whose small size dictates that
she dresses in pre-teen fashion. The gradual relationship that
develops between Harriet and Patrick Shawcross, the leading actor
from "Willoughby" is predictable and not the most riveting part of
the story.
The saga of the tour is played out against a backdrop of a
missing family member, Lara, who became a part of the Turner family
when her own parents were killed. The younger Turner brother,
Austin, interrupts a musical tour of Europe to help find Lara and
his quest takes him, accompanied by Harriet, to West Cork. Here
they discover more than their missing sister; secrets are revealed
which have been known only to their mother and her colleague Gloria,
secrets which have proved overwhelming to Lara and have caused her
sudden flight.
A further drama is played out in a minor key, with James and
Melissa's daughter Molly becoming embroiled with an older man and
missing Lara's advice when she needs it most. While all does not
quite end happily ever after, Austin finds a soulmate in the form of
Lara's flatmate Nina, Harriet moves to Boston to be with Patrick
Shawcross, the faithful family friend Gloria retires to be with her
blind husband, and even the evilly-depicted Melissa turns out to
have the good of the company at heart. At almost five hundred pages
"Family Baggage" would be a good choice to pack with your own
holiday baggage.
(Tivoli, ISBN 0-7171-3864-X, pp482, EU8.99)
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Haughey's Forty Years of Controversy - T. Ryle Dwyer
Historian T. Ryle Dwyer has used the publication of State
papers from 1972 to augment the material of two previous books,
"Haughey's Thirty Years of Controversy" and "Fallen Idol". He
covers all the most famous events in the life of the quintessential
politician, the Arms Crisis, the GUBU affair, the gifts from Ben
Dunne and the tapping of journalists' phones, as well as some that
might be less familiar. The question of the source of Haughey's
wealth is also dealt with, and a sense of wonder emerges as to the
ready availability of significant sums of money when Haughey was in
receipt of only a backbencher's salary.
What emerges strongly from these pages is the fact that
Charlie Haughey was first and foremost an extremely able politician
who was able to cut through red tape to enable legislation to be
passed quickly. There is general agreement that he would have
climbed the political ladder just as quickly even if he were not the
son-in-law of Sean Lemass. He is given credit for the introduction
of many benefits including free travel for pensioners and free
hospitalisation for those earning less than Stg5,000 a year. The
author does not include one of my favourite schemes, the issuing of
a free toothbrush to every child in the State.
The question of the attainment and preservation of power
played a major role in Haughey's life, engendered and fostered by a
degree of arrogance obvious to anyone who knew him. He was also, as
we know, quite capable of lying in order to extricate himself from
his various troubles, and was also quite ruthless in his
determination to stay as head of the Government, as his lifelong
friend Brian Lenihan found out to his cost. The author does not lay
all the blame on Haughey, however, meting out a fair share of
responsibility on the press whom he describes at one point as
"whoring after false demons" instead of presenting an unbiased
account of the facts; this was in relation to allegations about the
'golden circle' of businessmen who allegedly benefited from being
friends of Haughey.
T. Ryle Dwyer has endeavoured to look at both sides of the
story in this examination of the political career of Charlie Haughey
and has presented a man who seemed able to manipulate his friends
and his enemies with equal ability. The final judgement on him
"...he was unquestionably a very talented politician", does not
really do justice to the many revelations in the preceding pages.
(Mercer Press, ISBN 185635 426 1, pp254, EU14.95)
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Deadlier Than The Male – David M. Kiely
With the subtitle "Ireland's Female Killers", David M.
Kiely's book outlines sixteen cases of murder by women, beginning in
the years just after the Famine and finishing just three years ago.
In many of the cases the apparent cause was an accumulation of
domestic violence and the reaching of a point at which the victim of
the violence could take no more. This is not the case with the
first murderer, however, for Catherine Flanagan was an Irish
immigrant in Liverpool whose motive was purely financial and whose
chosen method was poisoning. As in so many of the cases cited, an
overindulgence in alcohol had much to do with either the actual
murder committed or with the identifying of the murderer.
Another Irishwoman who paid the ultimate price for her crime
in England was Charlotte Bryant, who had met her husband Frank while
he was serving in the army in Derry in 1922; she also favoured
poisoning as a means of ridding herself of her husband. Mary
Somerville from Monaghan, on the other hand, was found guilty of
disposing of her grandchild, born to her teenage unwed daughter in
1938, a crime that at that time still carried the death penalty.
However Mary appealed her sentence and it was commuted to life
imprisonment, a sentence she served in full.
Perhaps the most interesting case recorded is that of
Bridget Waters, a war bride who became something of a celebrity in
the United States where she travelled with her young son to contest
her husband's divorce action. She had the support of the Married
Women's Association, established in 1938 to campaign for equality
for women. The former Bridget McCluskey from Dublin, who had been
nursing in Liverpool, won her case for support from Frank but
decided to stay in the US to ensure that payments were made on a
regular basis. It was when he took up with another woman that he
sealed his fate, for Bridget shot and killed him, but once again her
good looks and innocent demeanour stood her in good stead and the
jury returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter.
The author does seem to take a number of quantum leaps to
support his own theories on the murders; one example is his
interpretation of the words of Norma Cotter, who received a three-
and-a-half year sentence for the murder of her husband, army
corporal Gary Cotter. David M. Kiely states, "In Norma's words they
got on all right; 'not brilliant but you could live with it' –
shorthand, most would agree, for an abusive relationship". I have
to say that I know a number of women who could describe their
marriages thus, and none of them, to my certain knowledge, is in an
abusive relationship.
The Price sisters, Dolours and Marian, provide another
motive for killing, extreme nationalism, and robbery was the motive
for the killing of Garda Michael Reynolds in1975, for which Marie
and Noel Murray were both given life sentences, having successfully
appealed the death sentences handed down at their first trial. With
each of the sixteen cases the author has endeavoured to look into
the minds of the female killers and to try to fathom the motives
which led them to commit the ultimate crime.
(Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 7171-3894-1, pp188, EU10.99)
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Nothing Simple – Lia Mills
The uprooting of a family at the heart of "Nothing Simple"
is something that might be familiar to many Irish readers. The
importance of following where the work is, of overlooking the
problems engendered by such moves, forms the basis of Lia Mills'
second novel. Dubliner Ray is happy enough to accompany her husband
Dermot as he criss-crosses the United States following the demand
for his computer skills, but when their children arrive she decides
the time has come to settle, in Houston, Texas. This represents a
stable period in their lives but in fact the author opens her story
with the disappearance of the couple's eldest child, Hannah, just as
they are about to move back to Ireland. The narrative then tells
the family's story in a chronological fashion, and Ms Mills
accurately and sensitively conveys the different experiences of
husband and wife, the former totally taken up with his work and
meeting people every day, while Ray languishes at home and becomes
increasingly isolated. The book works as a chronicle of an American
community and the shifts in relationships to be found there, but the
initial disappearance of Hannah, which promised a dramatic outcome,
is resolved in a rather understated manner which disappoints.
(Penguin Ireland, ISBN 1-844-88057-5, pp392, EU12.99)
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Georgina Campbell's Ireland
Under this heading come two books, The Guide and The Dublin
Guide, the latter derived from one section of the former with a
number of additions, and in both there is a wealth of reading.
There is a detailed account of what can be expected by way of food,
accommodation and atmosphere in the best restaurants, hotels and
guest houses in the country, many of them off the beaten track. It
is interesting, and of great benefit, to hear someone else's views
on restaurants in particular, to save making an expensive mistake,
and the books are written with sufficient authority and honesty to
inspire confidence in the judgements. Each book has an extensive
introduction, the nationwide one listing and giving details of the
Awards of Excellence while the Dublin one lists Farmers' Markets and
the activities of Feile Bia. Both are indispensable guides to fine
dining and comfortable accommodation in Ireland.
(Georgina Campbell Guides, ISBN 1-903164-12-5, pp546, EU19.95)
(Georgina Campbell Guides, ISBN 1-903164-16-8, pp546, EU10.00)
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The Boghole Boys – Gabriel Fitzmaurice
In the first poem in this collection Kerry poet Gabriel
Fitzmaurice sets out his stall as a poet who "finds genius where he
can"; in his case this is in his native North Kerry where he
minutely observes the people and events of Moyvane, the passions by
which they are consumed and the particular problems they encounter.
What is remarkable about the poetry is its accessibility, an
accessibility that is summed up in the first lines of "At Fifty":
"I court the common reader, not the poet –
The kind who browses, likes a damn good read:"
We hear of the unskilled labourers, looked down on by
everyone but essential to the fabric of society; of the "townies" in
the village school who sport their superiority over their country
cousins, only to become "country" themselves when they go to
secondary school; and the sad but defiant statement of the old man
whom the guards ignore as he drives himself home from the local pub.
The collection includes two sequences, "The Village Schoolmaster"
and "That's Football", the latter including Fitzmaurice's thoughts
on a memorable Munster final in 1924 when John Joe Sheehy and Con
Brosnan, on opposing sides in the Civil War, put their differences
aside for the duration of the match:
"For what they love, they put down the gun –"
In this collection Gabriel Fitzmaurice reaches into his own
heart and the heart of his people, the people he has affectionately
named the Boghole Boys.
(Marino Books, ISBN 1 86023 158 6, pp126, EU12.95)
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New Hibernia Review – Ed Thomas Dillon Renshaw
The Winter 2004 edition of this quarterly magazine features
new poetry from Maura Staunton; Dr Michael Cronin writes on the
increase of multilingualism in Dublin and the possible consequences
for the Irish language; Charles Fanning has a particularly
interesting contribution on the legacy of Robert Emmett on the lives
of Americans in the 19th century; and Leann Lane examines George
Russell's writings on the need to stem female emigration from
Ireland by releasing women from heavy agricultural work and
"ensuring a wholly domestic role for rural women". Also
contributing to the Review are Albert J. De Giacomo and Jonas
Friddle; Kathleen A. Heininge; Rui Carvalho Homem; James M. Cahalan,
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Anthony Roche and Patrick O'Sullivan.
(University of St Thomas, ISBN 1092-3977, pp160, $35.00 per annum)
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Beastly Jokes
More Beastly Jokes - Shay Healy
Compiled for the entertainment of his grandson, these two
collections of jokes about animals range from the short and
exceedingly punny - "What do you call a camel with no humps? -
Humphrey", or my own favourite, "Where do they send mad fleas? - The
loony-tick asylum", to slightly more involved stories, though never
longer than a few lines. The jokes are interspersed with
illustrations large and small and the layout is sure to appeal to
the young reader.
(O'Brien Press, ISBN 0-86278-923-0, pp96, EU5.95)
(O'Brien Press, ISBN 0-86278-924-9, pp96, EU5.95)
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In the Bestsellers but not reviewed
Of books mentioned in the Bestsellers list which we have not
featured, "Little Criminals" is Gene Kerrigan's novel about crime in
Ireland; and the anthology "Voices and Poetry of Ireland" is
accompanied by three CDs of notable Irish people reading their
favourite Irish poems.
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____General News
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Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize
The Munster Literature Centre and Cork 2005: European
Capital of Culture have jointly launched the Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Prize, sponsored by O'Flynn Construction.
With a prize fund of EU50k, this is the single biggest prize in the
world for a collection of short stories. With more than sixty
submissions to date, a short list will be drawn up in July before
the final winner is announced at a Gala Banquet in September.
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The Open Door Book of Poetry
Readings by Paul Durcan, Paula Meehan and Eileen Sheehan
marked the launch this month of "The Open Door Book of Poetry", by
Niall MacMonagle. Part of the Open Door series initiated by
Patricia Scanlan and New Island publisher Edwin Higel and comprising
fifty-two poems from Shakespeare to Heaney, the book aims to make
poetry accessible to readers. All royalties from the book will go
to Focus Ireland.
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First New Biography of Pope Benedict XVI Published
Columba Press has published "Benedict XVI: Successor to
Peter" by Father Michael Collins, the first new title about Joseph
Ratzinger to appear in either Britain or Ireland. Fr Michael
Collins is an accredited journalist to the Holy See and was in Rome
to cover the funeral of John Paul II and the election of Benedict
XVI.
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History Ireland – May/June 2005
The latest edition of Ireland's only history magazine
includes an article on the question of the Nazi sympathies of IRA
leader Sean Russell; Eamon O'Flaherty on the legacy of John Paul II;
and Kevin Whelan on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
http://www.historyireland.com/
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Listowel Writers' Week 2005
From June 1 to June 5 Listowel will be playing host to its
annual Writers' Week with Irish writers Colm Toibin, Roddy Doyle,
Ronan Bennett, Michael Longley, Pauline McLynn and Ross O'Carroll
Kelly. Among international readers attending the festival are
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Jack Mapanje, Carol Ann Duffy, Joe Simpson,
Robert Fisk, Lawrence Block and D.B.C. Pierre. See
http://www.writersweek.ie for full details.
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Kate O'Brien's papers for UL
Austin Hall, the godson of Limerick-born writer Kate
O'Brien, has donated a collection of papers to the Special
Collections Library at the University of Limerick. The papers cover
the author's personal life and include correspondence to family
members, diaries and material relating to her financial affairs.
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Joyce Exhibition in Belfast
For the first time, the International Joyce exhibition,
organised to mark the centenary of the day in 1904 on which James
Joyce's novel "Ulysses" is set, is to be shown in Belfast. The
exhibition, comprising twenty-two panels covering a number of
different Joyce-related themes, was officially launched at the Linen
Hall Library by Seamus Mallon and will be open to the public for the
entire month of June.
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Clarke papers presented to UCD
Poetry Ireland has presented more than 6,000 volumes of the
works of Austin Clarke to University College Dublin; the archive was
purchased by Poetry Ireland founder John F. Deane a number of years
ago. Also presented to the university's special collections library
were the papers of Poetry Ireland.
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Other newly published books not featured in the review:
"Xenophobe's Guide to the Irish" – Frank Kelly (ISBN 1-902825-33-0)
"Killing Finucane" – Justin O'Brien (ISBN 0-7171-3543-8)
"A Special Kind of Courage" – Chris Ryder (ISBN 0-413-77276-4)
"City of Bridges" – Jo Slade (190339246-2)
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