An Irishman's Son


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Daniel Muldaur wants his wife back. He doesn't care that she's pregnant by another man. He refuses to turn his back on the life they built and the love they shared. ~For nineteen years, the Muldaurs had an enviable, unshakable marriage. How, then, did Teressa become pregnant by Gregory Costa, a man whose violent death opens the scene to one of the most poignant love stories ever told? ~Will nine months be time enough for Danny to go from a man betrayed, to the proud father of someone else's baby? ~Can Teressa forgive herself the worst mistake of her life, never imagining the baby she carries might bring them more happiness than they've ever known - if only she can survive the guilt?~In an age when one molecule of DNA can change everything you thought true about your life, wouldn't you want to know THE LOVE STORY BEHIND THE LIE? ~AN IRISHMAN'S SON is the continuation of Teressa Giannopoulos and Daniel Muldaur's enduring love story, first introduced in the novel BAKLAVA, BISCOTTI, AND AN IRISHMAN, a finalist in the Multicultural Fiction category for International Book Awards - May 2017.~ "In her novel, AN IRISHMAN'S SON, author Kathy Aspden shows us the ripple effects of one decision and its lasting impact on many lives. Her prose is crisp, her characters speak to you, and the journey she takes you on will stay with you long after you've finished reading. AN IRISHMAN'S SON is a penetrating and well-crafted tale."- Casey Sherman, New York Times Best-selling Author of "The Finest Hours"~"Can even the most devoted love withstand the trauma of a devastating betrayal? In Kathy Aspden's moving novel of a marriage under siege, a couple confronts the truths about themselves, and the many contradictions of the human heart." - Anne D. LeClaire, Best-selling author of "The Halo Effect" and "The Orchid Sister"




Baklava, Biscotti, and an Irishman


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"Nothing can be done to take back that tiny millisecond when one soul recognizes another."Artfully weaving together three lives, three coasts and three generations, Kathy Aspden's breathtaking debut, Baklava, Biscotti, and an Irishman is a dazzling pastiche of love, deception, acceptance and forgiveness.When the choices that Teressa, Danny and Gregory make intersect with circumstances out of their control, they must straddle the fine line between what is right and what is unimaginable to live without. What would they do for the sake of a child?Baklava, Biscotti, and an Irishman is a deeply moving story about the dynamics of love and loss, and what it takes to survive both.




A Criminal and An Irishman


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A former rival and associate of Whitey Bulger tells all in this “profane, often brutal” true crime memoir about the inner workings of life in the Irish mob (The Boston Herald) After serving in Vietnam as a combat Marine, Irishman Pat Nee returned to the gang-filled streets of Boston. A member of the Mullen Gang since the age of 14, Nee rejoined the group to lead their fight against Whitey Bulger’s Killeen brothers. Years later, the two gangs merged to form the Winter Hill Gang, at first led by Howie Winter and then by Bulger. But by the time Bulger took over, a wide rift had opened up between the infamous crime boss and Pat Nee, who was disgusted by Bulger's brutality. A Criminal and an Irishman is the story of Pat Nee’s life as an Irish immigrant and Southie son, a Marine and convicted IRA gun smuggler, and a former rival-turned-associate of James “Whitey” Bulger. His narrative transports readers into the criminal underworld, taking them inside preparation for armored car heists, gang wangs, and revenge killings. Nee details his evolution from tough street kid to armed robber to dangerous potential killer, disclosing for the first time how he used his underworld connections as a secret operative for the Irish Republican Army. For years, Pat smuggled weapons and money from the United States to Ireland—in the bottoms of coffins, behind false panels of vans—leading up to a transatlantic shipment of seven and a half tons of munitions aboard the fishing trawler Valhalla. No other Southie underworld figure can match Pat’s reputation for resolve and authenticity.




Wales and the Britons, 350-1064


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This, the first volume in the History of Wales, provides a detailed history of Wales in the period in which it was created out of the remnants of Roman Britain. It thus begins in the fourth century, with accelerating attacks from external forces, and ends shortly before the Norman Conquest of England. The narrative history is interwoven with chapters on the principal sources, the social history of Wales, the Church, the early history of the Welsh language, and its early literature, both in Welsh and in Latin. In the fourth century contemporaries knew of the Britons but not of Wales in the modern sense. Charles-Edwards, therefore, includes the history of the other Britons when it helps to illuminate the history of what we now know as Wales. Although an early form of the name Wales existed, it was a word in the Germanic languages, including English, and meant inhabitants of the former Roman Empire; it therefore covered the Gallo-Romans of what we know as France as well as the Britons.










Irish Pedigrees


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