Major Conn MacLeod is no ordinary man. Decorated army officer, sportsman, academic and notorious millionaire playboy, he has more notches in his belt than ten men. He now plans to go to a place where the risks are unforeseeable and the outcomes inconceivable. Conn MacLeod has finally devised a key that will open a portal into a parallel world. Has he finally bitten off more than even he can chew?

It is no secret that the modern secular world denounces the existence of miracles. But the truth is plain and simple: miracles can (and do) happen, and science can prove it.Some might say that belief in miracles is a thing of the past, relegated to a more credulous and superstitious age before humanity fully embraced the certainty and exactitude of scientific study. Renowned author Michael O'Neill, also known as the “Miracle Hunter,” is here to set the record straight.Accor...

This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.There is a reaching for the unsayable throughout this collection, whether it is thinking about the future, people's inner lives or the shadows of place, O'Neill is wholeheartedly engaged with the unfathomable nature of living. To read these poems is to be part of his exuberance for the physical and visual experience of living, be that lying in a field, being with loved ones or watching the movement of ...

Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the poet speaks of and to his personal and historical life and also explores themes of elegy and friendship. Memories are woven vividly throughout a thematically varied yet coherent collection, in which a witty and moving pleasure in liv...

Major Conn MacLeod (Ret,) is definitely no ordinary forty-six year old - and he now has an even longer list of achievements to prove it. Just six years after successfully passing through a "portal" from 21st Century Earth to medieval Meshech, he is conceivably the wealthiest man alive; master of numerous demesnes, farmer, industrialist and merchant - and soon to be the father of thirteen children. Despite his obvious success, he is risking it all by intervening in a war that is not of his ...

Major (Ret.) Conn MacLeod is no ordinary forty year old – and he has a very long list of achievements to prove it. From his decorated army career, his celebrated status as a world champion in several sports, his acknowledged expertise in history, science, and engineering gained through his numerous university degrees, and his notoriety as a millionaire playboy, he has more notches in his belt and trophies on the wall than ten men combined.Despite living his entire life in a breakne...

Follow the adventures of Benny the chicken as he stuggles to find his place in nature without becoming a part of the food chain...A story about life, learning and a surprising friendship.

Join Lydia the lamb as she journeys through life, learning what it means to be different and that the truest friends love you just as you are.

Join the Author as he leafs through an album of anecdotes from his life as a farm boy through to his life as a farmer/plumber. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes funny, sometimes heartwarming the pictures painted of childhood and siblings give the reader a personal look at growing up in a rural Ontario farm family. The same mix of humour and hard work permeate his adult life working as a plumber and around his own family farm. A book where each chapter is an emotional meal but after it is dige...

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Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. An international team of experts explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland use language and to what effect, examining questions of form, tone, and voice; they comment, too, on how formal ch...

It is no secret that the modern, secular world denounces the existence of miracles. But the truth is plain and simple: miracles can (and do) happen, and science can prove it.Some might say that belief in miracles is a thing of the past, relegated to a more credulous and superstitious age before humanity fully embraced the certainty and exactitude of scientific study. Renowned author Michael ONeill, also known as the ;Miracle Hunter,; is here to set the record straight.Accor...