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The first three books in the Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition: Murder in an Irish Village, Murder at an Irish Wedding, and Murder in an Irish Churchyard.

In USA Today best-selling author Carlene O’Connor’s eighth Irish Village Mystery, the long-engaged garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last. But just as the rowdy O’Sullivan brood and all the regulars of the local bistro have gathered at the church, the nuptials come to an abrupt halt when the discovery of an unidentified skeleton puts the wedding on pause....

Reidon Ward will become a god. He doesn't know it yet, of course. Reidon was born weak, sickly, and small. Afflicted with a painful disease and abandoned by his parents because of it, he has had to fight tooth and nail for every minor advantage life has allowed him. However, his perseverance has not gone unnoticed, and when the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history takes an interest in him, things began to change quickly.

Reidon Ward's first semester at the Galens Institute hasn't been without reward. In just over half a year he's gone from the weakest cadet at school to one of the strongest in his class, and there's no one left who would argue that his Device, Shido, isn't the most terrifying CAD they've ever laid eyes on. Still, Rei knows that his climb has barely begun, like he knows that the true fight is only just starting. After all… The Sectionals tournament has arrived. Rei, along with Aria, Viv, Catcher, and a couple unexpected squadmates, are about to face the first real battle of their careers.

Six hours. That’s how long seven-year-old Sophie Lewin was missing. Found seventeen miles away on a desolate road, she has no memory of the incident, and the police have no leads. But one thing is certain: Sophie has not been the same since.

While Siobhán studies for her Detective Sargeant exams, her brother, Eoin, prepares for the grand opening of his new restaurant, The O’Sullivan Six, and concocts a plan to enter Kilbane’s Top Garden Contest to boost business. But trouble brews when Eoin hires a mercurial landscape designer known for her killer designs. His new partner’s unflattering reputation and questionable practices nearly eclipse her talents—and plunge the prestigious competition into chaos.

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is until she meets Wishbone, a skinny stray dog who captures her heart, and Howard, a neighbor boy who proves surprising in lots of ways. Suddenly Charlie is in serious danger of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.

Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this - carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: "Tell Johnny I'm sorry.... Take me home." She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers, and a gypsy warns her that death is all around. When Tara arrives at her uncle's stone cottage, the prophesy seems true. A dead man lies sprawled over the threshold in a pool of blood.

Reverse harem/multiple hero When Cara is taken by the shape-shifting beast men warriors of Ator, she gets hands on training in triad mating traditions. The Furians-Dagon, Gilen, and Joar had lost all hope of a future with the destruction of their home world until they stumble across an Earth woman they rescue from their enemy. Before she can be claimed by a rival beast clan, they decide to claim her for their own and set about initiating the triad mating ritual.

On a rocky beach in the southwest of Ireland, the body of Jimmy O’Reilly, sixty-nine years old and dressed in a suit and his dancing shoes, is propped on a boulder, staring sightlessly out to sea. A cryptic message is spelled out next to the body with sixty-nine polished black stones and a discarded vial of deadly veterinarian medication lies nearby. Jimmy was a wealthy racehorse owner, known far and wide as The Dancing Man. In a town like Dingle, everyone knows a little something about everyone else. But dig a bit deeper, and there’s always much more to find.

Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.

They were hired to find waste, fraud, and abuse. What they uncovered could rewrite the future of American power. In Washington, D.C., where politics and corruption go hand in hand, a covert team of young, off-the-books investigators—known only as the DOGE Squad—works quietly under the radar. Armed with cutting-edge tech, elite-level skills, and a knack for breaking rules, they were assembled by a reclusive billionaire and given one mission: shine a light into the darkest corners of government.

In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays, 22-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest.

Former New Yorker and interior designer Tara Meehan is eagerly anticipating the grand opening of her architectural salvage shop Renewals in her newly adopted home of Galway. She's in the midst of preparations when heiress Veronica O'Farrell bursts in to announce she's ready for some renewal of her own. To celebrate one year of sobriety, she's invited seven people she wronged in her drinking days to historic Ballynahinch Castle Hotel in neighboring Connemara to make amends in style. But perhaps one among them is not so eager to pardon her past misdeeds.

When the government announced that they’d made contact and representatives of the alien species was coming to Earth, Brandi was pretty much as terrified as everyone else. She was among those, however, who wanted to see them with her own eyes to decide if they were friends or a threat. Then she discovered they wanted to be really friendly. They’d come to seek bride-mates to form an alliance. And, as luck would have it, she’d just gotten a fertility treatment--the better to bait them up with mating lure. And she discovered it was hard to run fast enough to evade seven foot barbarians ...

Reissue Woman with male harem/reverse harem They were the latest weaponry--cyborg soldiers--a melding of robotics and biological materials conceived to integrate them with their human counterparts--except they were scary-big and so powerful they were capable of destruction no human was. And then they attained awareness and went rogue. And Danika, their human handler, discovered 'her guys' were thinking things it had never occurred to her was something she need worry about.

Si Jana Anderson hiciera un resumen de su vida, diría: hermana, amiga y fundadora de una empresa de cosmética natural. ¿Maravilloso, verdad? Pero su historia no se reduce a eso, también habría que agregar: viuda a los treinta años, con escasa vida social, eterna compañera de Sir William, su adorado gato y, el detalle más importante, a punto de perder todo gracias al maldito heredero de su difunto esposo. Maximilian O'Kelly. Un canalla. Un hombre temerario, despiadado, dispuesto a enloquecerla en todos los sentidos posibles. De solo nombrarlo... se le erizaba la piel. De solo ...

La señorita Agnes Holland ha puesto lo mejor de sí para consagrarse como una auténtica solterona. Tal tarea ha requerido de constancia, disciplina y de una disimulada inteligencia. Para la mayoría, la muchacha es un completo fracaso social sin ninguna perspectiva matrimonial. Para ella, no es más que un triunfo, el preludio a la libertad que tanto añora. Junto a sus amigas, tiene planes que les permitirá conquistar la independencia, una que no se encuentre atada a los hombres, ni a las normas impuestas. ¡Oh, querida Agnes! Si deseas hacer reír al destino, solo cuéntale tus planes....

¿Han oído alguna vez hablar de desgracias afortunadas? Pues bien, aunque no lo crean, existen. La señorita Natalie McAdam y lord Raphael Becket pueden dar fe de ello. Esta es su historia, una que dio inicio tiempo atrás, cuando sus caminos se cruzaron en la infancia. Pero, como lo único constante en la vida es el cambio, lo que fue una hermosa amistad se transformó en una confesa enemistad. Ella, una simple campesina, solterona, con aires de independencia. Él, un auténtico canalla, futuro heredero, un libertino con título y honores. ¿Casarse con él? Nunca. Los canallas no aman. ...

Lo había oído un centenar de veces de boca de sus padres... «Tu inocencia será nuestra condena». Y quizás, no se equivocaban, pues esa inocencia la sentenció a un matrimonio con el peor de los canallas. Lindsay White poseía muchos anhelos y pensaba ir a por cada uno de ellos... comenzando por una hermosa magnolia nocturna resguardada en el secreto invernadero de Lady Loretta. ¿Pueden creerlo? ¿Una magnolia nocturna? No halló la flor... en su lugar, encontró a Jonas Hudson, el barón de Cowrnell, un ser despreciable, un canalla de pura cepa, un granuja traicionero. Su pasado lo ...