**Two pugs have built a robot labrador to steal the world's tastiest bone.**The story is set in the United Kakedom, an island bigger than Iceland and smaller than Greenland. It is a circular island containing four countries of exactly the same size – like four quarters of a cake. These countries are Eggland, Sconeland, Pieland and Waffles. The people who live there are called crumbs. The crumbs are ruled by a Queen and she is helped by her Prime Minister. At the time of this story the Quee...

Popular culture constantly bombards us with the idea that modern scientific knowledge has rendered Christianity obsolete. The common conception is that those who believe in God do so through blind faitha faith that is devoid of proof and in contrast with scientific knowledge. However despite this perception, there are multiple independent scholarly arguments that point toward the existence of a Christian God, including:the weakness of naturalism as an explanation for our world;...

This is the story of the original Jack Riordan, uncle of the Jack Riordan of Drowning in Her Eyes and The House that Jack Built. He grows up in a sleepy country town and joins the air force during the Second World War. He trains and travels to England, where he becomes a bomber pilot. He is reported missing on operations, and presumed dead, his body never recovered.But the story is not that simple. He is shot down into the North Sea and he and two of his crew survive to be rescu...

Eamon Casey is a young man from a cattle station in Northern Australia. He is conscripted and sent to Vietnam. Wounded and mentally scarred, he returns home to find that his mother has been murdered and his inheritance, the property Conemarra has been expropriated by a shady character who had married his mother in order to gain it for himself.Disillusioned, he seeks refuge on a small island in the Torres Strait. Here, he hopes to recover and begin his life anew, but there is som...

This is the sequel to Drowning in Her Eyes. Jack and Susan return to the farm, where they tend the land, and their family increases. Jack still has an association with the army, and is involved in annual exercises with his battalion. Meanwhile, Muslim extremists plan to capture ships in the seas of south East Asia and hold them and their crews for ransom.Jack and his men stumble across a pirated ship in the wilds of northern Australia and foil the pirates. Their leader escapes a...

The story begins with a narrative of the early lives of the two main characters, jack Riordan and Susan Baker. Jack grows up on a farm in Australia, Susan in New Mexico, USA. Susans father is diagnosed with a terminal condition and decides to use his remaining time to take his family to Australia.Here, at university, the two meet and fall in love. Jack had always wanted to become an Army officer and joins the University Regiment. In the meantime, Susans father dies and her mothe...

The essays presented in The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century by those who knew Ian Willock, as well as those who have been inspired by his concerns, represent the wide compass of Ian’s interests. These range from a concern with the development of legal regulation to the relationship between social change and the justice system, as well as his particular interest in the accessibility of the justice system. This tribute provides a microcosm of the changes...

Nara Johnson is van mij. Ik weet het op het moment dat ik haar hand neem.Ze is briljant. Met rondingen. Mooi. Een stadsmeid uit Chicago die haar PhD doet in mijn kleine stad.En ze rent zo hard ze kan bij me weg.Ik zie het in haar ogen. Ze is eerder gekwetst. Ernstig.Maar ik ben die andere mannen niet. Ik ben een 44-jarige boer die weet wat hij wil.En wat ik wil, is zij.Ze denkt dat ze na haar afstuderen teruggaat naar de stad. Blossom Ford ve...

The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architectu...

Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...

Embark on a literary expedition through the annals of American history with 'History of the United States: A 30-Volume Anthology'. This expansive collection brings together a veritable tapestry of narratives, each contributing to the intricate mosaic of the nation's past. From evocative personal diaries and pioneering historical accounts to groundbreaking essays and fiery political debates, the anthology spans a broad spectrum of literary styles. Noteworthy entries include thoroughly resea...

17 horror Stories. One legendary music venue.We all know the old cliché: Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now, add demons, other dimensions, monsters, revenge, human sacrifice, and a dash of the truly inexplicable. This is the story of the (fictional) San Francisco music venue, The Shantyman.In Welcome to the Show, seventeen of today's hottest writers of horror and dark fiction come together in devilish harmony to trace The Shantyman'...