American frontier women of the 18th century were an extraordinary people whose contribution to the creation of the United States is one of the most enduring stories in history. The gallant women of the frontier have never been given the full credit they deserve for settling with their families in an uninhabited wilderness.  This book places on record the notable achievements of these heroines. Northern Ireland author/journalist Billy Kennedy, in the eighth of his Scots...

From their earliest arrival in America 350 years ago, the Scots-Irish left a lasting legacy. The history of the United States is interwoven with outstanding personalities from the Scots-Irish diaspora and the distinctive characteristics of a people who pushed the frontiers to new horizons.  This comprehensive study of the Scots-Irish in America by Northern Ireland author Billy Kennedy has created a much greater awareness of the accomplishments and the durability of the hardy settlers...

Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston and David Crockett were three men of destiny in 19th century American history who had much in common in family and ancestral ties, in character, mannerisms and political and social outlook as they shaped the fabric of a nation that was to gradually emerge as the greatest, most influential in the world. They were a gallant and fearless trio of men, hewn from the same genealogical and cultural stick that was rooted back across the Atlantic Ocean in lowland Scotlan...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in the second novel in the Albany cycleBilly Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, moves throuh the lurid nighttime glare of Albany, New York. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of the city's sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor, until he finds himself in ...

Billy Phelan è un uomo dalle mille risorse: giocatore di poker che non lesina trucchi, artista del biliardo e piccolo re delle scommesse sportive. Albany è casa sua: ne percorre e ne domina le strade e i locali, ne conosce a memoria gli intrighi politici. È proprio per questi suoi molteplici talenti che il potentissimo Bindy McCall – boss di una famiglia che governa Albany ricorrendo a ogni mezzo possibile, dalla minaccia alla corruzione – si rivolge a Billy per fare da intermediario con l...

The authors are: Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman, Jr., Thomas K. Tewell, James Kennedy, William Bouknight, Reverend Chuck Smith, Michael W. Foss, Robert Anthony Schuller, Robert H. Schuller, Dr. Roger Swearington. Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured my attention-and for two principal reasons: First, the number of dedicated Christians and Jews to whom this question seems to remain quietly disturbing-in times of personal crisis, occasio...

A thrilling account of the ins and outs of the Suffolk County Superior Court, this novel is vintage George V. Higgins.The third installment in the Jerry Kennedy series finds the Boston lawyer defending his toughest client yet, Billy Ryan. But it’s a few years on and battered Boston lawyers don’t look so hot under strong white light. Seemingly not the man he was, Jerry has to dig deep to come out on top in discrediting the prosecution. He looks to the likes of Bad-eye Mulvey, Cadill...

Billy "Zampacorta" Tasso è stato catturato dalle terribili sorelle della fattoria McGloone per farlo combattere contro tre cani enormi e feroci: Squartatore, Spezzaossa e Spaccatutto.Ma non è finita: nella fattoria degli orrori sono stati anche imprigionati cinque lama, attirati in Scozia con l'inganno, che i McGloone hanno in programma di trasformare in pasticci di carne!Per fortuna arriva Zio Shawn, un simpatico spilungone amante degli animali, che per liberarli ha messo ...

Tutto procede tranquillamente a Pandrumdroochit, in Scozia, per Billy "Zampacorta" Tasso e i suoi amici lama.Ma un giorno compare il perfido dottor Lindartigli, che ha dichiarato guerra a tutte le "stranezze" (dai fantasiosi giochi di Billy agli insetti con troppe zampe…).Le cose si mettono male quando inizia a rinchiudere tutti nel suo "Istituto di massima sicurezza per la cura delle stramberie": urge un piano.Una storia divertente sull'importanza e la ricchezza de...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly, read by Gordon Kennedy.All roads lead home.‘After my knighthood was announced,a woman from the BBC came toGlasgow to interview me. We satdown in a lovely hotel in a nice partof town, and she hit me with her firstquestion: “This must mean a lot toyou, with you coming from nothing?”I looked at her, and I...

Jerry Kennedy has been aptly described by his ex-wife as "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston." Now, Jerry must defend the man that no one else will: Billy Ryan. The longtime commissioner of public works has cut one shady deal too many. Even Jerry harbors no illusions about the man's corruption. "If they didn't have Billy for selling the apple to the serpent who peddled it to Eve," he figured, "it was because the serpent refused to testify against him. Professional courtesy and ...

Series 11-15 of the major BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during the First World War – plus special extended episode Home Front: A Fragile PeaceFirst heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly one hundred years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of society, mixing historical ...