Most Popular Books by Laura MORIARTY

Poetry Chapbook. SPICER'S CITY is 6 prose-poems which have to do with men, names, war, the city, films, relations, ends, lacks of end, means and meanings. The drama of recognition is a story without names. The double, the ambivalent, the uncertain, these are the categories we must accept. Only something like a mineral garden is left. (from Laura) Only something like poems, nourishment in paragraphs, names of musings and experiences, experiments, attempts, which ask us to consider: What have I said? What have I done? In a story about memory do the memories make any difference? (from 12 O'clock High)

Poetry. "If poems can be profoundly emotional - illuminating the persistently difficult zero of experience - these poems are. Precise, compelling, moving, simple, yet in places skirting the edges of what can be said, the writing in SYMMETRY feels absolutely necessary. Its toughness, honesty and eyes-open confrontation with the unnameable may make you weep"-Norman Fischer.

New York in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Eine turbulente Metropole voller Leben, Musik, Abenteuer - ein aufregendes Versprechen. Als die fünfzehnjährige Louise aus dem verschlafenen Kansas dorthin reist, um Tänzerin zu werden, geht für sie ein Traum in Erfüllung. Hals über Kopf stürzt sich das neugierige, unkonventionelle Mädchen in diese berauschende Welt - sehr zum Missfallen ihrer Anstandsdame Cora, einer Frau mit traditionellen Wertvorstellungen. Doch hinter Coras korrekter Fassade verbirgt sich ein trauriges Schicksal, von dem niemand ahnt. Die Reise nach New York ist für sie eine Reise in die Vergangenheit.

From The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons TrilogyAfter Rosemary O'Connor finds her abusive husband sneaking into her young daughter's bedroom, she spends the next few years physically fighting him off to protect her beautiful Brigid. In the end, Rosemary saves her from her father, but is unable to shield Brigid from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly twice her age, who uses the young girl's desperate desire for love to seduce her. Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate, Rosemary suffers a final altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly condemning her husband to prison. Rosemary's scheme was to save Brigid from a pitiless society that oppressed unwed mothers during the early days of the 1900s. But she frightens her in the process. As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution keeps her desire for a husband perpetually fettered---and then each time she is ready to fall in love, fate intervenes.

Reiley Freeze was an extremely heroic, kind, and popular character with readers in the trilogy, The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons. His instant charisma was evident with everyone he knew. He was fascinating, and yet, he never met very many people---he was always on the move.Reiley was the envy of every man who ever met him including his own brother. He didn't understand why men disliked him because he didn't realize that he made choices with a power that many men lacked---the internal fortitude to set aside his own desires for the sake of others. He stayed completely loyal to his goals---to provide a permanent life of security for the generations who would follow his own. He made every decision as closely aligned with the world's most valued and yet difficult necessity---the one that says good men must conquer the evil ones while not becoming stained with sin and guilt--- the only way for a man to become a real hero.Even more unlikely, the men who disliked him out of jealousy, principally because he was so admired by women, couldn't see the truth. They saw his charm, but yet, he held no pretense or swagger. The reason women longed for him was because of his way---his way with words---his way with a smile---his way with a helping hand, and most importantly, his way with his goodness.

Short descriptionAlexis Dering is the son of a rich lord in Exeter, EnglandWhen he learns that his ancestors were frauds and hypo-crites, guilty of unspeakable crimes, he decides to strike out on his own, leaving his wealth and potential positionbehind.Despite his desire to help humanity and live a peaceful life, he runs into endless obstacles. His life is filled with unrequitedlove and tragedy. Only late in life does he discover true love, and hope to live the life he has always desired.

Kevin O'Malley & The Oxford Connection follows The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons trilogy, but precedes the first book in time. However, much like a sequel, this story references parts of the original trilogy which should be read first.This story is pure fiction. But the idea behind it came from a multitude of real news reports by The New York Times, The Guardian, CSPAN, The Huffington Post, PBS, and other sources that that have reported and explained the cultural beliefs, greed, and immorality behind the insane enslavement and torture of women and children.While the tale itself could be equated to a comic book action hero styled story, it is also filled with the emotional terror of real situations, and presents the reader with many provocative questions about a netherworld of evil that not only exists across all nations, but is one that is often ignored by law enforcement.