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They say you can never go home again. Ciarán mac Diarmuid knows that saying isn't about a scientific fact. It's a convenient lie people tell themselves and others. The truth about such sayings isn't what gets said, but what doesn't. The fact is you can go home again. And when Ciarán does? Trouble knows exactly where to find him. Now Merchant Captain Ciarán mac Diarmuid must decide. Just how far will he go to protect his home and family...

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ONE GIRL. ONE HELLHOUND. ONE CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD. A map. A riddle. And her first job in the city. Maddy Dune possesses everything she needs to search for Tan, her soulmate and missing heir to the throne. Everything, until the dragon arrives and shreds her plans to tatters. Taking control of the city's police, Tan's scaly southern cousin butts in, forcing Maddy's adoptive family to scarper off to a rural town where ancient magic rules....

Originally published in 1979 and with a case-study from Indonesia, this volume examines the question of planning the provision of transport facilities as a special case of the general planning problem.

Only he can stop them. And only she can save him. Undead sorcerers stalk the fogbound streets, hunting victims to power their death magic. Crypto-naturalist pirates surface from their watery graves, determined to shatter the delicate truce between humans and their reluctant neighbors, the magical and unpredictable Folk. And when Professor of Enchantment Eusebius Quille arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder he discovers only one man pos...

We do not come in peace. Hired to follow in the reckless footsteps of a madman, Ciarán mac Diarmuid and the crew of Quite Possibly Alien agree to cross the Alexandrine on their way to a shattered Earth no explorer has set eyes on in six thousand years. Tricked into taking on fugitive passengers, the ship and crew find themselves entangled in a universe-spanning web of lies centuries in the spinning. And when a hidden conflict simmering ben...

New York, 1919. The 'President' of the self-declared Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, joined representatives from other new European nation states seeking recognition and funding. Back in the 'home country', Michael Collins was raising funds in open defiance of the Dublin Castle authorities.

Am I being detained? When pirates capture the vessel he's traveling on Ciarán mac Diarmuid barges in to deal with the situation. Deal with it quickly. Either he arrives at Unity Station in time for his merchant examination or his career is over, and with it the careers of his captain and his crew. Forced to travel alone and under an alias, Ciarán must use all of his talents to outsmart his captors, rescue a missing VIP, and stop a hidden p...

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Blood from a Stone Getting a straight answer from the mysterious Hector Poole is like getting blood from a stone. But once the blood starts flowing there's no stopping it, not without revealing further secrets best kept hidden. Senior Captain Maris Solon knows better than to trust Poole twice. But trust him she must, when she's lured to the planet Sampson by the Queen's Merlin and forced to choose between darkness and light. There is mor...

To save the living he must wake the dead. Seanscéal means 'old story'. Like a parable, or a fable, but generally more long-winded. It's like... entertainment, but often with something meant to be learned hidden inside. Not only is it good fun, but sharing a seanscéal is also a way of getting around the not-waking-the-dead custom. And that's exactly what Ciarán does, three times, skirting custom to explain: How he won a posting to the Fre...

He was born bent. He refuses to die broken. Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father's footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he's no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do a...

They can only hang him once. Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn't want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There's no in-system tug bigger than Truxton's Tractor Four Squared, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn't just good. It's great. Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for...

Originally published in 1979 and with a case-study from Indonesia, this volume examines the question of planning the provision of transport facilities as a special case of the general planning problem.

Quite Possibly AlienA sentient starship, refitted and pressed into service... quite possibly mad. An unstable crew, captained by a ruthless woman... quite possibly pirates. A fresh recruit, with an unexplained past... and his cat.In a universe where nothing is what it seems and heroes are in short supply. Don't Ask. Don't Tell. Just sit down. Belt in. And hang on.

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This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty, as well as varying levels of public policy debate on regulation. The book incorporates a comparative review of zero hours work based on the findi...

When it comes to prayer, most of us need reassurance. We see all too clearly the poverty of our efforts to pray, the cloud of distractions that eat away at our prayer like cabbage moths, the gap between our words and our actions … Like any good writer on prayer, Fr Pat O'Sullivan knows how we feel. Andrew Hamilton sj, from the ForewordHere is a collection of reflections on prayer, gathered over a lifetime of thinking and praying. And, always, ...