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“john j riley”

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  • Eileen O'connell

    A Search for Love

    by John J. Riley ...
    Set in the late 1940s in beautiful Center City Philadelphia, Rittenhouse Square and the Main Line, this is the story of Eileen OConnell and John Doyle, an unusual friendship. It is a loving, tender memory of a beautiful friendship that spanned almost 60 years. Eileens quest for true love is a lifetime pursuit falling short of the prize. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Another One of Riley's Pianos

    by John J. Riley ...
    In 1947 John J. Riley at age 17 founded with a capitol of $250.00 a one-man piano business selling and restoring used pianos that lasted for 58 years. His story is of the piano industry. The people he met and who frequented his shop. They are interesting and poignant characters. Mr. Riley is among a rare and vanishing breed of people who loves their lives work. In the beginning of the book he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Burning Ambition

    by John J. Riley ...
    From his humble beginning in South Phila politics to his election as Governor of Penna Jim Devlins life is a story of true love and driving political ambition. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sarah's Life

    by John J. Riley ...
    Sarahs Life is a journey from the last decade of the 19th Century to the first half of the 20th Century. The life and times of Sarahs Murphy. It is a story of joy and sorrow - triumph and disaster, success and failure. A life lived to the fullest. A testment to the best of the human spirit. To rise about all reverses with grace and dignity Sarahs life is a life one will remember. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Vocation

    by John J. Riley ...
    Vocation Fr. Jim Nolen became a priest to bring God to man and man up to God. He is an idealist. He is brought to reality when he is exposed to a grave moral disorder practiced by the hierarchy. Thus Fr. Nolen takes a moral position against the church, breaking his vow of obedience. His life is never the same. This is a rare look into an ever-so-human Catholic Church. ... Read more

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    An Education at The New Yorker

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    In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, ... Read more

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  • The High Road

    by Terry Fallis ...
    This deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty ... Read more

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  • Murder on Lexington Avenue

    A Gaslight Mystery

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    When Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is assigned to investigate the murder of an influential man in the deaf community-presumably because his own son is hearing impaired-midwife Sarah Brandt lends a hand, only to find herself searching for a killer in an unfamiliar world where those who can hear refuse to listen to those who cannot. ... Read more

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  • Mozart in the Jungle

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  • Smoke Jensen, The Beginning

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
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    An epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier from the greatest Western writer of the century.On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots are fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby’s father and brother go to war. Smoke Jensen: The ... Read more

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  • The Female Pope - The True Story of Pope Joan

    by Oliver Hayes ...
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