Some worlds are not that far off, all it takes is a nudge in the right direction. This book is one of those little nudges. It’s a book about eleven dreamers, eleven misfit birds, how they discovered their extraordinary talents and became part of Plumedini’s Traveling Circus of Super Chickens. It is a book about legends, and how these legends came to be. A collection of stories retold through the words of a wanderer, Cob Watson, who, for a happy period of his life, was given a chance to tag...

This book is a collection of poetry by Kay Sulimay Brady, who put her first poetic verse to paper in 1940 at the age of nineteen. Kay's writing shares her feelings on many subjects that were close to her heart--nature and the seasons, love, memories, patriotism, family, faith, and even a nod to local sports. Her poetry reflects a wide range of emotion--joy, introspection, inspiration, sadness, gratitude, appreciation, and touches of whimsy. Kay reflected these emotions back to the reader a...

A student’s murder in the grounds of Dublin’s famous Trinity College brings out Ireland’s darker secrets.In this first of the ten-book Inspector Matt Minogue series, a brutal murder in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences for Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Garda Murder Squad.When the body of student Jarlath Walsh is discovered with his head beaten in, Minogue instinctively knows that this is no random killing. Walsh...

John Brady McDonald, MBSFA, a Nêhiyawak-Métis multidisciplinary artist and writer from Treaty Six Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada, is an award-winning author of multiple books who has presented at literary festivals around the world. Before all this, however, he was a young, urban Indigenous youth, struggling with addictions, the streets, and the pain and turmoil of intergenerational trauma as a residential school survivor and the child of residential school survivors.These raw, ...

Ireland is reeling from the shocks of the economic crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. Bernadette Cummins is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Because her husband is a criminal godfather serving a sentence, Bernie can’t trust that the Guards will search for her son.She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. With Bernie Gannon facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down.In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband, Ma...

This issue of HyphenPunk brings you six stories in three different -punk genres.CyberPunk by Erica Rivera, Bryce Meerhaeghe, John Brady, and Brian D. HinsonMythPunk by June MartinArcanoPunk by Vivian Moira Valentine

Electricity Slides is an experimental work, written in the Dadaist "cut-up" style of the 1950s. Begun as a series of live performance art monologues, Electricity Slides alternates between a third-person narrative and a first-person narrative of the nameless protagonist, a troubled and traumatized figure who speaks in a lyrical, poem/prose manner, in possession of a stolen, mind-altering substance through a connection with an equally nameless, equally mysterious woman. The...

"Details Sinatra and Gardner's tumultuous romance . . . all the while painting a broader portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age." — USA TodayWhen Ava Gardner was emerging as a movie star, she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and num...

Environmental issues can present some daunting operational concerns for all types of organization, whether in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Managing them requires environmental professionals with a working knowledge of the rapidly developing body of regulatory measures.This new edition of Environmental Management in Organizations provides all the management tools, performance measures and communication strategies that organizations need to manage their environ...

A harmless English ex-pat retiree is strangled in his rural cottage.In this second of the Inspector Minogue series, Arthur Combs is found murdered, the life choked out of him by a rope around his neck and a knee between his shoulder-blades. The method is obvious, but the motive is far less evident.As an English expatriate retiree in Dublin, the decrepit seventy-three year old Combs lived a solitary existence with few friends, but no enemies.Or so it seems when Sergean...

The body on the beach was that of a young man. he had been shot in the head at close range. Professionally.In the third of the Inspector Minogue series, a body washed up on a beach is the son of a prominent Irish family – but there is a catch: ‘He’s one of our own all right, but a Jew nonetheless.’Paul Fine was the son of a prominent judge whose family had lived in Dublin for generations and who had played a key role in the city’s small, complex Jewish community. The evidenc...

The murder of a tourist a decade ago has left open wounds. When an outsider begins to question the past, it changes everything.The fourth Inspector Minogue mystery opens on a drizzly October in Dublin: Minogue is daydreaming of Greece’s blue skies. His plans for a trip there are suddenly dashed: Hoey, his partner in the Garda Murder Squad, has tried to kill himself. To compound Minogue’s problems, family duty calls. His nephew has been arrested for suspected IRA gun running....