"After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways -- and Sullivan's Pub is her classroom. Maura didn't only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it's the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone...

Jane is a bright young woman who longs for, but always feared change. Following the sudden murder of her fiance, she finds herself caught in a web of manipulation by a bar owner and his estranged wife. The detective leading the case is Jane's old friend, but Jane questions if he can bring justice to the case. When the facts surrounding the murder fail to match the explanations put forth, Jane is forced to rely on herself to piece the puzzle together....

Mac, Charlie, Dee and Frank return to their duplicitous, scheming ways at Paddys Pub, while Dennis takes on the new role of a father in North Dakota. Last season, the Gang experienced new highs and the lowest of lows. Even without Dennis, the gang still has its hands full this season, once again.

"After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman...

"An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater).The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter...

Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis, his sister Dee, and their nihilistic father Frank, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to awkward and outrageous misadventures, from sleeping with...

A dentist teams up with a feisty would-be assassin to put the final touches on the plan to kill his wife. In the process, he unknowingly sets off a chain of events that fuels a crosstown journey through various Los Angeles lounges, strip clubs and bars.

Cicely St. John is not impressed by her friend C.J. Callahan's so-called passion in life: running a New York City bar that he inherited from his uncle. So why can't Cicely stop thinking about the dance they shared at their mutual friends' wedding -- or the mutual attraction she felt in C.J.'s arms? As far as C.J. is concerned, Cicely is a snob whose "passion" in life -- writing for fashion magazines -- is as pretentious as she is. So why can't he...

"Four volumes of the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African Americans covering all four decades during which the series was published, 1938, 1947, 1954, 1963." -- cover page 1.