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  • RETHINKING 'DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING' IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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    RETHINKING 'DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING' IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    LICIA CIANETTI / JAMES DAWSON / SEÁN HANLEY
    This book seeks to inject fresh thinking into the debate on democratic deterioration in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), viewing ‘democratic backsliding’ through the prism of a range of cases beyond Hungary and Poland, to redress the imbalance in current scholarship. Over the past decade a consensus has emerged that democracy in CEE is sharply deteriorating, perhaps even ‘back...

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  • THE FURYS SAGA
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    THE FURYS SAGA
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 Irish Catholic family of seafarers in a fictional port city based on Liverpool, evoking the harsh realities and frustrated longings of Brita...

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  • ANOTHER WORLD
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    ANOTHER WORLD
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 Garthmeilo. At the time, it was summer, light and warm. Now it is February, and the Welsh gloom has ground Mrs. Gandell's spirit to dust...

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  • THE CLOSED HARBOUR
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    THE CLOSED HARBOUR
    JAMES HANLEY
    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.   But those days are gone. After a long and undistinguished career, Marius's reputation suffers an irreparable blow during the dark da...

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  • THE FURYS
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    THE FURYS
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 Peter that she took one child out of college and married another off—for Peter that she sent a third to work at sea. She has sacrif...

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  • BOY
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    BOY
    JAMES HANLEY
    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. The thought of a life working the docks makes Fearon break down in front of his classmates, but there is no time to cry. This boy...

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  • THE OCEAN
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    THE OCEAN
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 to a lifeboat and guides the survivors aboard. There are only six of them, and when the submarine's machine gun rakes the side of their...

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  • WINTER SONG
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    WINTER SONG
    JAMES HANLEY
    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. When his ship was reported lost, his wife, the stalwart Mrs. Fury, staggered into St. Stephen's Hospice, prepared to die. Twelve months...

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  • THE SECRET JOURNEY
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    THE SECRET JOURNEY
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 every last cent. For seven years, Mrs. Fury has borrowed money from Mrs. Ragner to send her son Peter to seminary. He never joine...

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  • AN END AND A BEGINNING
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    AN END AND A BEGINNING
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 family—an honorable crime that merely drove the Furys further apart from one another. On the gloomy day when he steps back into the fre...

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  • OUR TIME IS GONE
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    OUR TIME IS GONE
    JAMES HANLEY
    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 to better things. He is at a banquet for war recruiters, savoring the atmosphere of refinement, when a call comes from the hospit...

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