For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. The rich and prominent "Old House" families of Chicago banded together to protect their own - the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. There was a cover-up and a vicious scandal. Leo left for the Korean War, and the three friends' summers at the lake were gone forever. . . Until thirty years later when Leo, still obsessed by the memory of Jane and the need to solve the mystery of what really happened that fateful summer, comes back to Chicago and back to the lake. Jane is more beautiful than ever, but her life has been an unhappy one, trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by the memory of Leo. She has returned to the lake to try to piece her life back together. Disillusioned with the priesthood, Packy realizes he's in love with Jane, too. But as a best friend and confidant to Leo and Jane, he faces a difficult choice this summer: should he help his oldest friend win back the woman of his dreams or pursue what might be his own last chance for love?

Chronicles the lives of the Farrells--matriarch Brigid, sons, John, a priest, and Roger, a professor, and his wife Irene--and their regeneration sparked by another Farrell, the lively young teenager Noele Marie

Talented singer and psychic sleuth Nuala Anne McGrail finds herself in over her head when she tries to save potential murder victim Seamus Costelloe, a sinster Chicago tough guy, from his fate, while her husband, Dermot Coyne, attmpts to solve the century-old mystery of who was responsible for starting the Haymarket Riot that devastated Chicago. Reprint.

A novel of modern Ireland takes readers into the heart of a prosperous country that is sometimes plagued by violence as Nuala Ann McGrail and her husband, Dermot, embark on another thrill-packed adventure in search of a long-lost treasure, a quest that could threaten their very lives. Reprint.

A collection of fictional portraits explores the world of women--including Rosemarie, a teenager coming to grips with evil in a modern world, and Peggy, a lonely widow

Father Laurence O'Toole McAuliffe, the pastor of Saint Finian's parish in Forest Springs, is weary and worn out, his priesthood and faith in tatters. Once literally a bomb-throwing radical and then a Vatican Council liberal, Lar McAuliffe has grown old and cynical. To make matters worse, he's smart enough to know what is happening to him.God, the cardinal, or some combination of the two plays a dirty trick on Lar by sending him Father James Stephen Michael Finbar Keenan, the "new priest." Lar expects a classic confrontation between young and old, between sardonic maturity and enthusiastic inexperience. But the new priest does not fit the stereotype and the two become friends.Together they face the conflicts and joys, the hopes and pains of the contemporary Catholic parish―the old-fashioned school principal; the broken family; the reactionary finance committee; frustrated young lovers; and the chancery office and a timid Cardinal, who interferes with the priests' work on every possible occasion.Alternately sad and uproariously funny, The Cardinal Virtues is about the meaning of religion, the meaning of faith, and the meaning of life.

Sean Desmond, a biologist abandoned by his wife and two sons, sets out for Stockholm to accept a Nobel Prize and finds himself tracked by would-be assassins and protected by a beautiful guardian angel, who teaches him to love again

"There's evil people around, Dermot love. . . . I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won't we have to fight them!"This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but from whence does this nameless peril originate? From the Homeland Security goons determined to deport the Irish-born Nuala on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicions and accusations? From the spiteful neighbors campaigning against their family's beloved Irish wolfhounds? Or from the tangled dealings of the Currans, a prosperous clan of Irish-American aristocrats, with whom Nuala and Dermot have recently become acquainted?The true danger becomes shockingly apparent when a catastrophic car-bombing rocks the Chicago riverfront. Uncovering the twisted minds behind the bombing is not easy; Dermot and Nuala soon find themselves enmeshed in a complicated tapestry of lies and secrets. Nuala's preternatural instincts also lead her to a forgotten manuscript revealing the treachery and deceit behind a tragic chapter in Irish history: the saga of bold Robert Emmet and the failed uprisings of 1798 and 1803.Between the past and the present, our heroine and her devoted spouse have more than enough mysteries to contend with, but the two of them are bound to make the truth just as clear as . . . Irish Crystal.

Psychic Nuala Ann McGrail and Dermot Coyne are only weeks away from their wedding when Nuala experiences a vision of a past wrong that needs to be righted, this one involving the mysterious death of Al Capone's famous rival, Jimmy 'Sweet Rolls' Sullivan,and a secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden.

An account of the author's two-hundred-fifty-mile journey, on foot, from Kathmandu, Nepal, to the Crystal Mountain, in Tibet, in search of the Himalayan blue sheep, the rare snow leopard, and distances of the spirit

The Cronin brothers--Paul, shaped by his father for the Presidency, and Sean, a priest, also at his father's decree--each in his own way, love Nora, Paul's beautiful wife

Follows thirty years in the lives of Kevin and Patrick, two Irish Catholic boys from the west side of Chicago, who grow up together and enter the seminary to become priests

Describes how priests and rabbis read the Bible, and shares Catholic and Jewish interpretations of various portions of the Scriptures (view table of contents)

Just when Jerry Keenan realizes how much he needs Maggie, the ethereal, haunting young woman he has met at a Tucson, Arizona, lunch counter, she disappears, and Jerry sets out on an amazing journey in search of her. Reprint. NYT. K.

Product Description: A Quest for the Holy GrailIn this novel of legendary Ireland, Andrew Greeley takes you back into a long-ago time of mists and magic, faith and love. Here you will meet Cormac MacDermot, the young king destined to lead Ireland out of paganism to Christianity; his aged father, now on the throne, and the seductive witch-queen who holds the country in thrall...read more

As a storyteller, Jesus often surprised his listeners with unexpected twists that challenged them to see the world in a whole new light. Father Greeley's insightful tour of the Gospels provides a fresh look at the parables that strips away centuries of false and mistaken interpretations to get at the essential truth of who Jesus really was and what he believed. Along the way, Father Greeley touches on such provocative topics as the significance of Jesus's Jewish roots, his deep and revolutionary relationship with women, The Da Vinci Code, and The Passion of the Christ. He also singles out the four greatest parables, which best illustrate the infinite love and mercy of the God whose kingdom began with Jesus and continues even today.--From publisher description.An informal collection of homilies on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ examines the parables told by Jesus, touching on such topics as the infinite love and mercy of God, Christ's Jewish heritage, and his relationship with women.

When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood, vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth, while, in a parallel case, she stumbles upon the memoirs of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, a man who risked his life for a beautiful German widow and a secret plot to kill Hitler. Reprint.

Psychic sleuth Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot, come to the aid of two senior citizens, John Patrick Donlan and Maria Angelica Connors, whose unexpected, late-in-life romance is threatened by an unknown enemy.

Working hard on the floor of the U.S. Senate for the rights of the underprivileged, honest politician Tommy Moran is determined to restore compassion and civility to American politics, only to find himself and his family the target of vicious personal attacks, false rumors, and even assassination attempts, as well as the enmity of his own brother, a conservative priest. Reprint.