James Hanley

• Aug-1983
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• Jun-1993
• / General Fiction
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A boy returns home from seminary to a family on the verge of collapse For almost seven years, Mrs. Fury has done nothing but think of Peter. Of her five children, he is the youngest, her darling boy whose future she planned out long ago. It was for P...

• Sep-2007
• / Action Adventure
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Brilliant in its stark depiction of trench warfare in World War I, this lost classic was privately printed in a limited edition in 1930. British censors initially suppressed the short novel because of its tough antiwar views and sympathetic portray...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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To sustain her family, Mrs. Fury buries herself in debt At the top of the hill on the north side of town, Mrs. Ragner rules over her kingdom. A bitter old loan shark, she has a grip on all the families in this port city, and she squeezes each one for...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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Out of prison and on his own, Peter Fury struggles to find a place in the world Peter Fury has been in prison for fifteen years and four days, and every minute has been an eternity. He was jailed for killing a woman whose greed had poisoned his famil...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape the working class and sees World War II as his ticket...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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When her husband comes back from the dead, Mrs. Fury plans a voyage Dennis Fury was too old to return to sea. Nearing seventy, his sailing days long behind him, he should have stayed home -- but Britain was at war, and his family needed the money. Wh...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Trapped on shore, a captain fights desperately for a place on a ship Once, Marius believes, the world was wide and the sea was infinite. Adventure and profit awaited any man bold enough to step aboard a ship and cast his lot with the open ocean. ...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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How can an ancient book written over 2500 years ago be so accurate in predictive prophecy? Both ancient and modern historians have tried to challenge the authorship and dating of the book of Daniel because they could not bring themselves to believe t...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Tracy Kayser and James Hanley share real life stories of deliverance from anxiety, depression, insomnia, fear, rage, obsessive compulsions, panic attacks, demonic strongholds, same sex attraction and trauma from child abuse. James clearly outlines th...

• Dec-2012
• / Literary
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To escape a brutal life on the Liverpool docks, a boy runs away to sea Arthur Fearon is nearly thirteen, and in the eyes of the law, that makes him a man. He wants to study to become a chemist, but his family cannot afford for him to continue school....

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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After an elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote Welsh smallholding, he leaves the kingdom over which he had ruled so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they prepare for the funeral, the novel -- the last written by the p...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
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An elderly farmer dies, leaving the kingdom he had ruled over so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. The novel charts the courses whereby each sister came to be what she now is; Lucy, the one that got away, and Cadi, who gave up her life to...

• Mar-2015
• / Literary
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In a lonely seaside town, a few misfits cling to one another for survival Nine months ago, Mrs. Gandell left Yorkshire behind. She invested what little money she had in a ramshackle inn off the coast of Wales, in a forgotten resort town called Garthm...

• Mar-2015
• / Literary
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Five shipwrecked passengers fight panic, thirst, and the sea itself One minute, sailor Joseph Curtain is in his bunk. The next, he is submerged in the ocean. A German torpedo has struck the Aurora , and she is sinking fast. Curtain makes his way ...

• Aug-2018
• / Historical
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A powerful five-volume story of a working-class Irish Catholic family in England by a “novelist of distinction and originality” (E. M. Forster).   In five novels, published between 1935 and 1958, James Hanley chronicled the struggles of an I...

• Jan-2024
• / Contemporary Romance
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Alex, a divorced man in his mid-fifties, announces that he is escaping the stress and losses of his life by meeting with three women of his youth out of curiosity—but is that the real reason?Seeking escape from work fatigue and a loveless life,...