• Provides context and history for the traditional Irish lament known as the keen, examining the origins of the ritual and its history from paganism through Christianity• Explores keening’s shamanic dimensions and mythological connections to the Otherworld, including the world of Faerie while drawing on archaeology and traditional Irish folklore• Looks at the practicalities of keening, considering the wake as a rite of passage, the role and burden of keeners, the structure ...

How much adventuring in the Nether can you take?After good-natured, adventure loving friend Steve takes a crack at Alex about not getting out enough, the strong willed girl decides to go on an adventure of her own. Like it or not, she will have to pay a visit to the creepy caverns of the Nether in order to track down diamonds for herself and iron ore for Steve.Things don't unravel as she hoped they would though.It turns out that N...

I’m a modern-day professional woman.I cherish control and certainty in every aspect of my life. But deep within this seemingly self-assured persona, lie deep, dark, secret desires. Hidden inside, is a strong yearning to be controlled and dominated upon.I wonder if I can find someone to fulfil those needs…

When magic is just another extraction industry, an average joe with student loans can't afford to have principles.Pherul Baker is a standard-issue lab technician at a corporation that harvests mana. The fact that he works with faerie-people is a secret from the public, but he's had years to grow accustomed to them. When one turns up dead, it throws life at the isolated dig site into disarray: the humans didn't know these beings were mortal, and it might have been f...

Death of a GossipWhen society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling feathers - or should that be fins? - of those around her.Among the victims of her sharp tongue is Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth, yet not even Hamish thinks someone would seriously want to silence Lady Jane's shrill voice permanently - until her strangled body is fished out of the river.Now with the help of the lov...

For the past five months, rural parts of the world have been breaking out in spontaneous fires. These Mysterious Fires, which no one has been able to identify the cause of, have begun to displace residents of the Deep Forests, who now seek refuge in the nearby city.The city of Stone Towers grants entry to refugees of the Mysterious Fires only if they can prove they are skilled enough to work in one of the city's professional vocations: crafting, farming, mining, or defense....

When zombies attack, Alex has to choose between being a human or saving humans as we know them. Alex is a human turned zombie that has been thrown into a world of chaos after waking up in an attack by zombies, which are under the spell of an evil wizard. The series continues with Alex, a courageous young woman and her new partner Steve, a stubborn young man set upon getting revenge on the wizard for ruining his town. The two companions part ways, only to be reunited in an u...

Robert Kirkwood served in the Continental Army, fought on the frontier, and became a celebrated Delawarean hero.Born in White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, Robert Kirkwood mustered into the Continental Army in 1776 and served through the siege at Yorktown. In his time in uniform, he witnessed or participated in battles from Long Island in New York to Cowpens in South Carolina and became a trusted and valued subordinate to men such as Daniel Morga...

Reese Eddings has enough to do just keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to pay food for herself and her micro-crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to say "NO!" And then to remember that she sort of promised to repay the loan. But she doesn't remember signing up to tangle with pirates and slavers over a space elf prince...Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilo...

Seersana University is worlds-renowned for its xenopsychology program, producing the Alliance's finest therapists, psychiatric nurses and alien researchers. When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he's unprepared for the challenges of a vast and multicultural society... but fortunately, second-year student Vasiht'h is willing to take him under his wing. Will the two win past their troubles and doubts and see the potential for a once-in-a-lifetime partn...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL'The detective novels of M C Beaton have reached cult status' THE TIMESNothing could be more relaxing or sedate than a quiet game of bowls on a pristine bowling green...

Monroe Matches is throwing the hottest holiday mixer for all the sexy singles in Miami. We've got the mistletoe. Come and meet your holiday match…Carla Monroe has been matching couples for decades, but if there's one match she hasn't gotten right, it's her son, Phineas. No woman has sparked his interest, no matter how many of her top contenders she's secretly paraded in his path…both in and out of the office.Luckily for Carla, Maxine Mackenzie has finally come back to Miami...