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Celebrate in good company with: a pig who will make you laugh; Irish mobsters who gave Hell’s Kitchen its name; and a beautiful woman who is absolutely mad.

Our St. Patrick’s Day ebooks collection features everything from Irish landscapes to Irish mobs. You will find excerpts from Joseph Caldwell’s The Pig Did It, Josephine Hart’s Damage, Ken Bruen’s Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice, T. J. English’s The Westies, and Thomas Kelly’s The Rackets.

If you can’t get enough of Caldwell and the pig, watch New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt talk about Caldwell’s ...

Every writer is begins as a reader. Open Road authors participated in our ongoing National Library Week celebration by sharing some of their favorite library moments.

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Jon Land, bestselling and award-winning author of more than twenty-five titles, talks about the everlasting effect libraries have had on him.

Libraries are like doorways to other worlds, all worlds.  As someone who grew up in the pre-Internet age, pre-Google age, when I wanted to know something better the library was where I went.  It may seem nostalgic to recall flipping through the card catalogue at Brown University's Rockefeller Library, where ...

What are you doing to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Get in the Irish spirit with this special video featuring author Malachy McCourt speaking about Joseph Caldwell and his connection to Ireland. In his famous Pig Trilogy—The Pig Did It, The Pig Comes to Dinner, and The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven—Caldwell trains his ear on the musical dialects of Western Ireland, an area McCourt knows well.