Letter to the Church in the United States
Dieser Brief von vielen christlichen Leitern im globalen Süden spricht Bände…
“If you who know the Truth will not speak for us who will?”
Tracy is worn out from caring for her young daughter Hayley, the fruit of a drunken teenage binge. She’s also fed up with the judgemental remarks not only from her relatives but even from strangers in the street. Pious churchgoers criticise her immoral behaviour and foul language. Her boyfriend Davy is neither very bright, nor…
I don’t know if I ever met my illustrious and rather enigmatic great uncle Stanley Le Rossignol. My mother often spoke of him and it was from him I inherited a collection of antique reference books, biographies, novels and religious texts dating back at least to 1859. Some show signs of appreciation and frequent use,…
These first two books in the Irish Country Books series are light-hearted stories recounting the experiences of freshly qualified Doctor Barry Laverty as he starts working for the larger-than-life, old-school Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly.
Cuckoo in the Nest, by Fran Hill Fourteen-year-old Jacky barely survives under the ‘care’ of her dissolute alcoholic father. So Social Services move her to a first-time foster family. Their daughter, Amanda, of similar age, resents her presence and does her level best to get rid of her.
Subtitle: The evidence for evolution A sad book – extremely prejudiced and bitterly derisive of all believers. His way of interpreting a variety of interesting scientific phenomena could support evolution, but ‘evidence’ in the sense of proof it is not.
Ein spannender Roman über eine monatige Reise irischer Auswanderer nach Amerika in 1847 auf einem Dampfer. Nicht für fremdsprachige geeignet! Fast unglaublich, wie millionen von landlosen Iren wegen der Kartoffelfäulnis (potato blight) fast oder ganz verhungern, wie dies den adligen reichen (meist englischen) Landbesitzern völlig egal ist. Wo ist die Gerechtigkeit, die Barmherzigkeit? Zählt dann…