Böcker av Kyle Michel Sullivan

Derry, Northern Ireland, 1966Partitioned from Ireland since 1921 and dominated by a Protestant majority, the Catholic minority has grown weary of the casual discrimination against it and has begun a push for equal rights. One- man-one-vote. Decent housing. Good jobs. The most basic of requests. Yet these are still too much to accept, for those in power. Protests, confrontations, and demonstrations erupt, growing more and more dangerous and violent.Caught in the middle of it all is Brendan Kinsella, a Catholic boy who is thought of as ... odd. The story begins with the murder of his father just days after his tenth birthday, but Brendan is not sorry the man is dead; he was a vicious drunk who kept the family in extreme poverty, so his absence will be better for them.However, the man was killed by a pair of Protestants, which makes him a martyr to Ireland and sets Brendan's mother, Bernadette, on an expanding path to Irish Nationalism. She drags his older brother, Eamonn, with her ... but Brendan is reluctant to fall in line.The third of her six children, he is quiet and observant, with an innate wariness and skepticism, and prefers to go his own way, even though that can lead him into trouble, on occasion. Bernadette constantly berates him as simple-minded, despite his knack for repairing just about anything, and seems unwilling to accept he just wants to form his own opinions.Through the next six years, despite his efforts to remain apart from the growing turmoil, Brendan gets caught up in the countless civil rights demonstrations in Derry; the Battle of Bogside, where Catholics forced the Protestant Police Force out of their neighborhood; the arrival of British troops to separate the warring factions; internment without trial; and Bloody Sunday, when Paratroopers massacred Catholic marchers.Mingled into this is Brendan's budding relationship with Joanna, a Protestant girl from a well-off family. A relationship that must be kept secret to prevent any reprisals. She is pretty, fun to be around, has a life of relative ease, and is certain she is bound for university. She helps him see there is more to this world than hate and distrust, that his hopes, wishes and dreams could become reality, and they might still find a place of safety, even as their world careens towards chaos.

Fourteen years in the US Army, part of them as an off-the-record sniper in Afghanistan, had taught Carli Vincenzo how to play fair, take care of problems the moment they arose, and handle herself in just about any situation.Then her daughter, Lara, was raped and driven to suicide. At first, Carli tried to find justice through the legal system. But when that failed, her training had also taught her to always have a Plan B.In this case, that meant taking matters into her own hands.And those hands were willing to do anything to punish the men responsible...even if that included one who was innocent.

Adam Verlain loves his careful, cloistered world of rare and antiquarian books. But when an American celebrity offers her very valuable 1865 copy of "Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland" to his university, he has to be forced to travel from London to Los Angeles to close the deal. Then after a disastrous flight, he is taken aback when the actress refuses to give up the novel unless he escorts her to her latest film premier for reasons that seem...well, rather odd.Subjected to a radical Hollywood makeover, Adam is mistaken for a British actor, dragged to a goofy party, has to dodge an overly affectionate guard panther, and is shocked to learn the actress does not have the book.Can he escape the spotlight shenanigans to find a true treasure and keep it from falling into the wrong hands...and keep himself from falling for a woman who is way beyond his reach...in this zany quest to protect a priceless classic?