In the soot-mantled streets of Dublin, forty-three-year-old Padrick Parnell—once celebrated as "Fighting Parnell, the Five Leaf Shamrock, contender for the Empire Championship"—navigates a life defined by fading glory and deep personal grief. Haunted by the memory of his late wife, Katherine, Padrick spends his days visiting her grave, drinking stout at Conover's pub, and managing a handful of local fighters like young Terrence. But when a beaten, desperate young woman named Irene crosses ...

The UK has some of the most dramatic landscapes for NATO pilots to exercise the increasingly important military art of high-speed low flying. It also offers splendid opportunities for photography of close-up dramatic shots taken from the hillsides and mountains of Wales, Scotland and other steep terrain within the UK. Pilots training for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other potential war zones, learn their skills flying through the valleys of the UK at near subsonic speed. For the leg...

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution—to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked the current wave of advance and compellingly show why this wav...

In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada’s diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Three Nights in Havana is a fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship betw...

The Sinking of the Lusitania is a collection of short stories linked together by the medal of the same name. Some stories have an autobiographical element, some are historically based, and others are purely fictitious. The stories span the period from the early 1930s to the year 2025, with settings ranging from central Britain to Poland, Germany, and France. Themes of romance and nostalgia are contrasted with darker elements of corruption and brutality.

While his drugged body slept on the operating table, Rowan's unconscious mind journeyed to a lifeless place without definite color or substance. In self defense against the death of the other that was also a death inside himself, he traveled back into the dark night of long ago, back to a time when he and the Siamese twin who was dying were as one.And Rowan heard voices....It was always awkward, being Siamese twins. Awake or asleep, it was hard to be comfortable.

Millie's got bite!Millie was an everyday high school student with a secret. And she certainly didn't sign up for a cosmic abduction. But when the furry aliens snatched her, they soon found out they had messed with the wrong undead girl. She's ready to show the invaders that the human race isn't going to be a pushover.

Sin, Robert, and Maria are settling into family life. Then come the chilling words, written in blood. City after city, coming ever closer. “Until the Sin is given over. The whores will die for Sin.” The scent of brimstone lingers over the killing zones and bystanders report red eyes and an unsettling laugh.Sin is sent on a new hunt, maybe her most deadly yet. What will Sin lose as she fights a powerful creature that even the gods fear?Sin, Robert, and Maria are settling into family...

Ruby Red has faced off against shifters, vamps, and zombies. None were a match for Ruby and her friends. Now she's in for the fight of her life with a creature that could literally wipe out everyone and everything Ruby holds dear.Join Ruby in the final book of her series as she fights to save those she loves from a fearsome monster... and her family!

In the dead of night in 1894, a trembling, wide-eyed 13-year-old boy assisted with his first surgery--an experience that changed his life. Robert H. Wright attended medical school, then returned home to Hailey, Idaho, to marry Cynthia Beamer, his childhood sweetheart, and to practice in the frontier west--a choice that required both rugged courage and devoted compassion. Called to risk his own life on multiple occasions, he remained composed during a crisis, and his gentle confidence calme...

Outside, that's where the danger lay, not with some child. Not that any zombie could get through the razor wire surrounding the camp, but the captain wasn't one to take chances. Besides, there might be a few aliens left from the unit they had destroyed. - From Extinction Effect: Zombie RunIn a land overrun with zombies, aliens, and killer rabbits, Tanya finds herself in the middle of a child army. All the while her friend, Bo Jangles, scours the land looking for her.This se...

Dede and her charges stumble on the way home when they meet a strange cat with an agenda all his own. But luckily for Dede a new friend and a ship full of long-lost ghosts step in to guide her back onto her true path. Now, if they could only get home before the next stinky diaper change, everyone would be happy.