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Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.

Encompassing a variety of writing styles, Like a Rock in the Sea is a collection of short stories and essays which the author initially composed during his many years as a young American seminarian living abroad in countries as diverse as Spain, Italy, Germany, and Mexico.

The Apostolic School That Wasn’t... narrates a gripping account of how a rugged and picturesque 240 acre property in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada slowly transformed into an accredited minor seminary, junior high, and high school for boys interested in the Catholic priesthood, then flourished, floundered, and finally shuttered. Situated between the action of God’s divine providence and human realities, the narration seeks to give witness to the faith and effort of the many persons involved in the project, while exploring the reasons that led to the school’s demise.

Von der Fehldiagnose bis zur Therapie: Wie man trotz ständiger Rückenschmerzen und einem Dutzend anderer altersbedingter Verfallserscheinungen das Lachen nicht verlernt! 'Hat der Orthopäde keine Zeit, geh ich zum Urologen. Oder Proktologen. Egal, helfen tut eh nix und niemand, am Ende gewinnt immer die Bandscheibe.' Jetzt kann John Doyle endlich mitreden, wenn es um körperliche Beschwerden geht. Denn er hat jetzt auch 'Rücken', genauer: 'Bandscheibe'. Mit viel (Galgen-) Humor erzählt er von seinem Leidensweg, den er mit Millionen von Deutschen teilt.

Auf der Suche nach seiner wahren Identität entdeckt Doyle aber nicht nur Unterschiede und Parallelen zwischen den USA und Deutschland...

The anonymous narrator is suffering from a strange hypersensitivity to everything around him. He lives with an old man who has a clouded bluish eye, an abnormality that fascinates and disturbs him. Resolving to kill the man and dispose of his body, he soon realizes in horror, however, his innocent victim may never let him forget what he has done.