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June 19, 2009 | titcombsbookshop
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly…One Of THOSE Books
There are some books that are just fun to have in the bookshop and watch what happens with them. The books I am talking about are the ones that just seem to gather traction and find themselves flying out our door through the power of word of mouth. Examples? I remember when The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards was impossible to keep on our shelves. It wasn’t something that, at first, we heard much about in the press but friends told friends who told friends. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows was similar. It wasn’t a situation where people were seeing some star perennial best-selling writer interviewed on Good Morning America. People were just touched by the book and were talking about it among friends. (Well, actually, in the case of Guernsey I believe that it all started at our bookshop with the glowing recommendation by our own Elizabeth who got the ball rolling, but it doesn’t make my point as well to say so!)
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly is turning into one of THOSE books. The turning point (I refuse to say tipping point!) for me was a comment from an employee this week. Her son is a doctoral student in colonial history at the University of Pennsylvania. He came home to visit this week and said “Mom, I’m reading a book that I think you should have at the bookshop. It’s fantastic”. You could have knocked her over with a bookmark when he pulled out a copy of Galway Bay – a book she was currently in the middle of! This sweeping historical novel seems to appeal to a wide range of people from a variety of ages and backgrounds, men and women. How often can you say that about a 567 page novel???- Titcomb's Bookshop Blog
June 18, 2009 | Irish Voice
Mary Pat Kelly named one of the 75 Most Influential Women of 2009 by the Irish Voice. Read the story here. See their profile of Mary Pat here.
April 3, 2009 | La Cañada Valley Sun
An Irish American story in La Cañada
If you grew up watching the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope” and enjoy getting ensconced in a good Irish family drama, you won’t want to miss an upcoming event at Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 964 Foothill Blvd., in La Cañada…Click here »
March 20, 2009 | The New York Post
Kelly Green
Can we take any more good news? The Kelly Gang, which includes media types with the surname Kelly, pulled in close to $60,000 to benefit the Doe Fund, at its sixth-annual charity fundraiser. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly presented the Gang's Man of the Year honor to Doe Fund founder (and past NY Post Liberty Award Winner) George McDonald.
Steve Millington, the general manager of Michael's Restaurant, took a turn on the stage playing guitar, spelling the Paddy on the Railway folk combo before the NYPD Emerald Society Pipe and Drum corps took center stage.
Author Mary Pat Kelly, a co-founder of the Gang, autographed more than 50 copies of her new novel, "Galway Bay," which is a fictional version of her own Kelly clan's journey from Galway, Ireland, through New Orleans to Chicago, where one of her ancestors established one of the first urban Irish-American political machines. The book, from the Grand Central imprint of Hachette Books, is already on the regional bestseller list of the Boston Globe. – Keith J. Kelly
April 2009 | Review in the Irish Herald. 
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March 15, 2009 | new york insider -
They’ve Got the Whole World, In Their Hands Click here »
March 15, 2009 | caribousmom - Sunday Salon Click here »
March 15, 2009 | At Home With Books - Sunday Salon Click here »
March 13, 2009 | Steve Goddard's History Wire - Book Alert / Galway Bay Click here »
March 7, 2009 | Sunday Chicago Tribune "Grandmother of Chicago politics' honored" Click here »
Feburary/March 2009 | Feature and review in the Irish America. 
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March 9, 2009 | People Magazine review 
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March 2009 | Featured in BookPage. Click here »
Feburary/March 2009 | Feature and review in the Irish America. Click here »
February 2009 | to read a review of Galway Bay in Spirit Airlines magazine. Click here »
February 2009 | Featured in National Geographic's Don George's Trip Lit. 
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