Michael Cooney

• May-2009
• / Historical
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In the winter of 1885 William Druse disappeared from his run-down farm near the tiny village of Jordanville, New York. It took a month for the suspicions of his neighbors to lead the local sheriff to arrest Druse’s wife Roxy for killing her husband...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Set in the 1640s, this novel includes some of the major figures of the early Dutch settlement in present-day Albany, New York: Harmen van den Bogaert, Arent van Corlaer, Adriaen van der Donck, Johannes Megapolensis and the Jesuit martyr Isaac Jogues....

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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This novel is based on the true story of Hanyost Schuyler, whose role in saving the lives of hundreds of Americans besieged at Fort Stanwix in 1777 has long been forgotten. Hanyost does not care about nor understand the stories of fighting in faraway...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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Damien Prince has a simple life. He attends college during the week and has a part-time job at the local orphanage where he was raised. But when a befuddled Wizard on a far distant planet accidentally transports him across the Universe to save their ...

• May-2012
• / Historical
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This novel tells the story of the Little Falls textile strike of 1912 from the perspective of one of its leading participants, M. Helen Schloss. She was a public health nurse and an active socialist before she came to Little Falls, New York at the in...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Two boys in Asteronga decide to steal a rabbit and witness a man murdering his wife. The same two boys later cripple whom they somehow think is a molester of children. A small girl becomes obsessed with her own private cemetery for animals. A middle ...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Great Monroe High School Fire is based upon events surrounding the unsolved arson fire that did major damage to James Monroe High School in the South Bronx over thirty years ago. The characters are inspired by the young people who survived that e...

• Jan-2015
• / Historical
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For the millions of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Joseph Smith was an inspired prophet of God. For many other millions, he was a consummate con man, the founder of an authoritarian cult that was discredited even in his o...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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“In the Forest of Tombolo” is inspired by the true experiences of an American soldier during the closing days of World War II. By the time John Squillace fell in love with Michelina Colonna, he had deserted from the American army and ended up wit...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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Each of these five stories by Michael Cooney appeared first on Amazon Kindle and are collected here for the first time in book form. The stories, sharing a common link to New York, are set in the twentieth century except for “You Don’t Need a Wea...

• Oct-2017
• / Science Fiction
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This collection of two novellas and eight short stories ranges from distant star systems to an America only a few years in the future. An archaeologist makes powerful enemies as he reveals the civilization that existed before great ice sheets descend...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Kathleen Mazzetti has transferred to a small Catholic high school in the North Bronx to escape years of harassment from an older boy at Teddy Roosevelt High. It is the 1970s and neither the courts nor the police will protect her from John Rovazzi. At...