Two brothers grow up ‘hard’ then the Troubles come to Belfast. Enemies on both sides want them dead, and their friends are even more dangerous.

"A man, a van and a dog, you'd think they'd be easy found."Professional hitman, Doc Terence, has been given an impossible contract. Half of the Organisation wants him to find and kill disgraced politician Paul Bradley. But the other half, led by Doc's brother, Jimmy, insist on interrogating the man first. Bradley proves elusive and, as frustrations build, the body count mounts.Then there's the women in Doc's life: his runaway wife, and a defiant Connie who conceals informat...

Before the Words CameTwo broken hearts. One silent connection. A love that changed everything.What if healing didn’t begin with words—but with silence?Leona Avery thought her heart had stopped the day she lost Caleb, her fiancé and the future she never got to live. Emotionally paralyzed, she takes a leave from teaching and retreats into herself—until a volunteer role at a rehabilitation center introduces her to a man whose silence speaks louder than any voice ever c...

When I Remember YouA story of love that memory could never erase.What if the person you love most begins to forget you—but still remembers the way you made them feel?In the quiet coastal town of Willow Harbor, Elijah Vale has spent his life behind a camera lens—documenting truth, beauty, and everything in between. But nothing prepares him for the unfolding reality of loving Maren Calloway, the witty librarian he’s silently adored since they were seventeen—now diagno...

When unpopular farmer, Stoop Taylor, is found dead in a field, Station Sergeant John Barlow has a feeling his comfortable life is about to be turned upside down. Battling local hoodlums, the Dunlops, who are stealing cattle to order, and seeking a traumatised German soldier at large, Barlow finds his personal problems have multiplied as well. His schizophrenic wife turns violent, his daughter is growing up too fast, and the new District Inspector wants him demoted and transferred...

Station Sergeant Barlow is back; but if he thought life was going to settle down after his last traumatic case, he couldn’t have been more wrong. A brawl among youths escalates into a series of violent robberies; a pickpocket targets leading businessmen; local “hood”, Geordie Dunlop, is on the run and suspected of several murders; and the town drunk, Barlow’s friend and wartime commander, Major Edward Adair, GC, must be sobered up in time for his sister’s important...

Two years after his wife, Jane, was diagnosed with Alzheimers, Robert McAllister began a journal, closely documenting the course of Janes illness, and all that transpired between them. He wrote faithfully for Janes sake and for his own, always committed to deepening his understanding of the disease and to talking openly with Jane about what was happening. He promised not only to be her sole caretaker till the end, but always to be at her side to help her sort out Alzheimers devastating con...

An important working resource for engineers and researchers involved in the design, development, and implementation of signal processing systemsThe last decade has seen a rapid expansion of the use of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for a wide range of applications beyond traditional digital signal processing (DSP) systems. Written by a team of experts working at the leading edge of FPGA research and development, this second edition of FPGA-based Impleme...

DCI David Brock and DI Kathy Kolla, of Scotland Yard, find themselves pulled into a case of murder, a mysterious death among the houseboats that line the canals around greater London, in Barry Maitland's The Raven's Eye.DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently ...

This enchanting tale is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the necessity of imagination.Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson’s best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne’s brother, Ashmol, can’t see them and doesn’t believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne’s immature imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan disappear and Kellyanne becomes heartsick over their loss does Ashmol realize...

Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers.Life in a Liverpool tenement block is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly, who works hard every day to protect her family from hunger and disease.When rumours of war reach the neighbourhood in 1938, it becomes clear that lif...

A groundbreaking and inspiring book that challenges our relationship with alcohol by exploring the psychological factors behind alcohol use and the cultural influences that contribute to dependency.Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will inv...