Michael J : 2158 books

Some secrets should never be kept… Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he meets Anna. Feisty, fun and beautiful, she's his perfect match … and she loves his...

A helping hand? Or the grip of a murderer? A Glasgow student is found dead in a city-centre alley, kickstarting a trail of brutality that drives DI Ray McBain to the very edge, staring into the abyss… The victim’s family and friends are all under suspicion, and McBain has to untangle a sordid...

"Funny and brutal, heartfelt and compelling" Craig Robertson. Even though he’s a successful criminal, Kenny O’Neill - Glasgow's answer to Tony Soprano - is angry. Not only has his high-class escort girlfriend just been attacked, but his father is reaching out to him from the past - despite...

A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republics earliest days. Describing Cincinnatuss recorded life and times, Hillyard traces the legends major interpretations...

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Lindey's, the legendary bistro in Columbus's historic German Village, has served over half a million meals, welcomed hundreds of thousands of guests, and hosted umpteen parties of every imaginable kind--but it's the unimaginable number of campy servers, fanatical chefs, and infamous regulars whose antics...

In No Dribbling the Squid, armchair athletes--and anyone who enjoys tales of the strange and unusual--get a front-row seat at some of the world's most mind-blowing feats of strength, endurance, and eccentricity.Here are profiles of more than 70 fringe, far-fetched, and frightening sports, all...

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in...

This is a book of nine short stories and novellas. The title novella, The Education of Santiago OGrady, tells the story of a young man who learns about life and the philatelic business working at his countrys posts and telegraphs. In The Major, an ex-military officer meets a former subordinate. A...

Mobile Omnibus is an episodic account of a perception in an exploratory state. Its point cant be found by anyone but you. It was made for no other reason than itself. You take it from there, if it does anything for you.

Continuano le gesta di Royce e Hadrian, accorsi in difesa di Melengar impegnata a raccogliere la sfida del Nuovo Impero! Ancora una volta, Royce e Hadrian sono stati ingaggiati per un’impresa disperata: stringere un’alleanza con i Nazionalisti del sud. Mentre cresce l’influenza...

When a beautiful young woman sitting beside a man on a public bus requests him to perform a specific sexual act on her, he is flabbergasted! Is this woman insane? Is it a vice squad setup? Should he comply? After listening to her reasons for the bizarre request, the man decides upon...

Where it all began .... An old man is found murdered in his Glasgow flat. DI Ray McBain is called to the scene and is the first to notice that the man's wounds mirror the Stigmata. The police quickly discover that the victim is a former janitor who worked in several care homes where he abused...

Elite Americn soldiers suffering from PTSD seek to destroy the republic and American democracy.