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Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.

Nach einer Glaubenskrise zieht der siebzehnjährige Seminarist Noel für einen Sommer zu seinen Großeltern nach Faha, einem kleinen irischen Dorf, in dem nichts sich je ändert; auch der Regen nicht, der das Dorf seit Anbeginn begleitet. Bis er eines Tages, wir schreiben die Karwoche des Jahres 1958, plötzlich aufhört. An diesem Tag kommt auch Christy in das Örtchen, ein weitgereister Mann, der im Auftrag der Regierung durch das Land zieht und für die Elektrifizierung wirbt. Christy wird Untermieter bei Noels Großeltern und für den jungen Mann ein Freund und Mentor.

The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. “Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again...

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father.

Niall Black: Loyal right-hand to Finn O’Reilly. Cousin and trusted friend. He lives for the life he’s created. Filled with business, both day-to-day and dangerous. Not interested in a relationship of any kind outside of his comfort zone. Until fate brings her to him. Annabelle Lewis. She awakens something inside him. A need. A desire. A new set of feelings he wasn’t prepared for.

In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small group of his disciples. It is against this turbulent background and inspired by Jesus's radical message of love and forgiveness that John comes to dictate his Gospel.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. _ Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love. It's not everyday you meet a golden retriever in Thailand. When Niall came across a dog shackled to a short chain and in a poor...

Join sophomores Sarah Baker and Asmodeus Q. Hanson on Wizlyean On Air, the weekly news broadcast for Wizlyean University, a university for the magical and nonmagical alike. Sarah and Asmodeus will fill you in on campus events, university-wide announcements, and more. Maybe they will find that not everything at Wizylean is as it seems... Wizlyean On Air is an original podcast created, written, and produced by Brenna Miller and Niall Williams.

I’m a former FBI agent. Now I’m on the opposite side of the law as part of an underground vigilante organization. When the fight to stop a crime ring pairs me with a pawn shop owner, it’s hate at first sight. Fun fact: Hate and desire aren’t mutually exclusive. To further the investigation, Marcus and I must pretend to be boyfriends. Too much time spent in close proximity has me wondering if Marcus might have the power to thaw my icy heart.

Headless bodies are turning up along the Mexican border. The Mexican government blames overzealous US Border guards. The border guards blame drug runners. In a village just on the Mexican side of the border, they have other ideas. There are legends, older even than the Mayan civilization that has died away, of a God. A bat-headed vengeful demon. Someone is fanning the flames of that superstition, and the piles of bodies continue to grow.