Brendan Halpin

• Aug-2004
• / General Fiction
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Rosalind is mourning the deaths of both her moms, and Sean is working on his own issues -- the only thing they have in common is a little DNA When both of Rosalind’s mothers die, she moves in with the donor father she never knew. Fifteen, angry, an...

• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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From Brendan Halpin, author of the hilarious novel Donorboy and the intimate memoirs It Takes a Worried Man and Losing My Faculties, comes Long Way Back, a bighearted, thought-provoking story of faith, love, and punk rock. Growing up with hippie act...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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Mark thinks he has found The One in college. When Raquel abruptly takes off for Los Angeles to become a rock star, Mark tries to be happy for her -- until ROCK-L's first single sweeps the airwaves -- a song about Mark's stamina entitled "Two Minute M...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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When Eddie moves in with his cousin Alex, his world is turned upside down  Eddie’s life is changing. When his widowed mom is sent to rehab, he goes to Boston to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin Alex, a smart-mouthed extrovert whom the wit...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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5:30 a.m., Brianna Pelletier gets ready for her daily pounding. As she lies on the couch, her dad beats her chest, then her back, coaxing the mucus out of her lungs. The pounding doesn't take care of everything. Brianna's held out for a long time, bu...

• Mar-2009
• / General Fiction
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1972. A TV network under congressional pressure hires a group of young singer-songwriters to create educational cartoons. Holed up in a studio with unlimited pot, acid, and sex, the young artists and their self-serving mentor seem to have found an ar...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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When Amanda makes the junior varsity soccer team and Lena makes the varsity, Amanda finds herself increasingly shut out of her best friend's life. Suddenly, everything Amanda took for granted is changing, in Halpin's new novel about friendship, famil...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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Lucas and Tessa's friendship is the stuff of legend in their small Midwestern town. So it's no surprise when Lucas finally realizes his feelings for Tessa are more than friendship and he asks her to prom. What no one expected, especially Lucas, was f...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpin’s cranky, irreverent...

• Oct-2013
• / Suspense
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A noir superhero novel for teens and adults. "Something was wrong. Julie flew to the ceiling." Julie Rouge is nearly 16 and can't wait to join her mother, the masked crimefighter Red Talon, patrolling the crime-ridden streets of New Edinburgh. Unfort...