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Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.

Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable - and some may say improbable - sporting feats. Whether it was riding Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory, commentating the Olympics or hobnobbing with the country's upper crust, Rampaging Roy Slaven has lived an extraordinary life.

Encompassing a variety of writing styles, Like a Rock in the Sea is a collection of short stories and essays which the author initially composed during his many years as a young American seminarian living abroad in countries as diverse as Spain, Italy, Germany, and Mexico.

The Apostolic School That Wasn’t... narrates a gripping account of how a rugged and picturesque 240 acre property in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada slowly transformed into an accredited minor seminary, junior high, and high school for boys interested in the Catholic priesthood, then flourished, floundered, and finally shuttered. Situated between the action of God’s divine providence and human realities, the narration seeks to give witness to the faith and effort of the many persons involved in the project, while exploring the reasons that led to the school’s demise.

My name is Zae Man, and I wanted to be a king but chose to be a superhero instead. I just want to save the world. If you know anybody who needs help, tell your mommy or daddy or family or your teacher. It's a big job being a superhero. We need all the help we can get. Daddy and mommy let me be a superhero, but I still have to do my chores around the house. Like after breakfast, I have to clean up my mess and keep my room clean. You can be your own superhero like me.

Von der Fehldiagnose bis zur Therapie: Wie man trotz ständiger Rückenschmerzen und einem Dutzend anderer altersbedingter Verfallserscheinungen das Lachen nicht verlernt! 'Hat der Orthopäde keine Zeit, geh ich zum Urologen. Oder Proktologen. Egal, helfen tut eh nix und niemand, am Ende gewinnt immer die Bandscheibe.' Jetzt kann John Doyle endlich mitreden, wenn es um körperliche Beschwerden geht. Denn er hat jetzt auch 'Rücken', genauer: 'Bandscheibe'. Mit viel (Galgen-) Humor erzählt er von seinem Leidensweg, den er mit Millionen von Deutschen teilt.

Switching Dead City for the crystal arks of the 13 corporate colonies, Jack comes face to face with the full extremity of D'Alessandro's master plan. Awakening as godking in the fantasy realms of Forevermore, effectively trapped within the pages of his own faerie tale book, he realizes his only chance at redemption is to reform the A-Men for one last amazing adventure.

Auf der Suche nach seiner wahren Identität entdeckt Doyle aber nicht nur Unterschiede und Parallelen zwischen den USA und Deutschland...

The anonymous narrator is suffering from a strange hypersensitivity to everything around him. He lives with an old man who has a clouded bluish eye, an abnormality that fascinates and disturbs him. Resolving to kill the man and dispose of his body, he soon realizes in horror, however, his innocent victim may never let him forget what he has done.