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Among its various progenitors, literary Modernism can number two major Irish writers, James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, and a third, Samuel Beckett, who carried the 'revolution of the word' into a second generation. Yet Ireland as a nation came late to modernity. From the date of its symbolic inception as Europe's 'newest' state, retrospectively conferred on that foundational act of insurrection at Easter 1916, through the era of new nationalisms o...

Detective Stanwick is back! And you are about to be challenged by 30 exciting mysteries. Each one takes only about five minutes to read. Every puzzle combines features of the traditional whodunit (physical clues, red herrings, means, motive, opportunity, time sequences) with logic puzzles (true-false statements, matching suspects with occupations, even a little math). Are you up to a little sleuthing and deductive reasoning? - "The Case of...

Binary Existence finds Skyra and Lincoln 47, 000 years in the past. For Skyra, it's home. For Lincoln and his team, it's fraught with menace-a land of claws, teeth, and stone weapons.

Earth is dead. Infinity and Desmond bridge with a small group of migrants to a new world, expecting peace. Deceived, they find the resident sentient beings not so benign. This world isn't safe.

Annihilation has a way of following some people. Infinity and Desmond are bridgers, sworn to protect travelers to alternate versions of Earth. But now their own Earth has been destroyed, and they have a new task-protecting a small community of fellow refugees who managed to escape to a world teeming with giant arthropods. Stranded there, they've gradually managed to etch out a fulfilling existence. But it seems nothing good can ever last. In...

A frenzied escape. A city of hope. An unforeseen threat. Skyra, Lincoln, and their companions have narrowly escaped a brutal war between Neanderthals and humans. Now they find themselves far in the future, in a world filled with a puzzling assortment of creatures, many with a craving for flesh and a habit of attacking in swarms. With equipment remaining for only one more time jump, the group must try to make a life here or risk jumping to an e...

Some worlds are better left alone. Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a child, she had to fight for survival. Then she fought professionally. But when humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger-an elite fighter and survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds. Desmond Weaver is a tourist making a last-ditch eff...

Diffusion back of book material: 195 words from Amazon What would you sacrifice to bring to light the greatest discovery in human history? Quentin Darnell was only a boy when his anthropologist parents were overcome by a professional failure so crushing it led to his father's suicide. Now a schoolteacher, Quentin is looking for answers that can only be found in the wild terrains of Indonesian Papua, where years ago his parents studied an iso...

Who would you trust with the power to alter the destiny of humanity? Devastated by the loss of his son in a remote rainforest of Indonesian Papua, Quentin Darnell now must struggle to get his wife and surviving students safely back to civilization. But surviving the trek out of the wilderness is only the first challenge because his group now possesses an object that can create anything or do anything, for better or for worse. Can anyone be t...

How far would you go to save the human species? Heart to blood, muscle to bone, tourist flesh above my own. It's the bridgers' directive: risk your own life to save tourists bridging to alternate worlds. Bridger Infinity Fowler has no qualms about the directive. Risking death is just what bridgers do. But now the earth is dying. Bridgers have a new directive-save as many humans as possible, even if some must be sacrificed in the process. Sacri...

A desperate team of travelers. A world at war. A new destiny. Once you jump back in time, you can never return. Lincoln Woodhouse knows this, but that doesn't keep him from trying. After all, who wants to live forever in a brutal land of scimitar-toothed cats and vengeful Neanderthals? Lincoln, Skyra, and the rest of the team escape by jumping forward 47, 000 years. But the present isn't what it used to be. In this new timeline Neanderthals ar...

A time jump. A fight for survival. A bond between species. It wasn't possible, but then it happened... A Neanderthal's 47, 000-year-old remains are found in Spain. That's not unusual, but positioned beside the woman's skeleton is something that shouldn't be there-a robotic drone. Lincoln Woodhouse has some explaining to do. When confronted with the evidence, Lincoln cannot deny that the drone is one of his own models. After all, he routinely j...

If you have found this book, the end of the world has already begun. Something lies hidden in the remote wilderness. It is unremarkable in appearance yet beautiful in purpose. It is intelligent yet not human. It is a gift. But gifts always come at a price. It's 1868. Gentleman naturalist Samuel Inwood is fulfilling his dream of exploring Dutch New Guinea when things go horribly wrong. A savage aboriginal tribe takes him captive, and as Samuel ...

A devastated world. A desperate colony. As Earth's destruction approaches, bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver wrestle with the fact that eight billion people are about to die. While on the road to see Desmond's mother one last time, they witness chaos like nothing they've ever seen. Infinity and Desmond must fight their way back to SafeTrek to fulfill their primary duty-saving the human species. Their next mission: bridge 718 civic le...

Earth's last refugees. A one-way trip. A world of terror. Time is up. Earth is collapsing. Eight billion people and countless other living things will die. Bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver have one last chance to save a handful of refugees. And one last chance to have a life together. Earthquakes and storms threaten to destroy humanity's last hope-the SafeTrek bridging facility. With the building literally collapsing around them, In...

How can you save humanity if your only hope is to call upon an entity that could destroy us all?As nations argue over who should possess the alien entity called the Lamotelokhai, 15-year-old Bobby Truex knows the answer-no one should. After all, he's the one who told it to go into hiding. He knows, better than anyone, that misusing it leads to death and destruction. After months of trying to overcome his guilt, Bobby's life is suddenly shatter...

Science reveals that lions have a mortality rate with only half of cubs reaching adulthood. Life is tough for lion cubs, especially males. Only about 1 in 8 male lions survive to the adult stage. A close look at the lion pride makes it obvious that there are more females than males, usually a ratio of about 2- or 3-to 1. So it is with today's males. Many males never make it to true manhood and further many men never reveal the essence of fathe...

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This volume offers a comprehensive account by a range of established scholars of the richness and variety of Patrick Kavanagh's work both in prose and verse, and situates his writings in the social and cultural contexts of the workaday Ireland which emerged from the heroics of nationalist insurrection and civil war. The distinguished scholars who contribute to this account bring a diverse range of approaches and perspectives to offer a fuller ...

This volume offers a comprehensive account by a range of established scholars of the richness and variety of Patrick Kavanagh's work both in prose and verse, and situates his writings in the social and cultural contexts of the workaday Ireland which emerged from the heroics of nationalist insurrection and civil war. The distinguished scholars who contribute to this account bring a diverse range of approaches and perspectives to offer a fuller ...