Bøger af John Regan

Based on true events, WTF is a novel of love, war, betrayal and retribution arising from the collision between the destroyer HMAS Voyager and aircraft carrier Melbourne. Eighty-two men died on a beautiful moonlit night in the summer of 1964. Jim Price only survived because of his mate Charlie but Charlie didn't make it. If someone saves your life you are under an obligation to them forever, so it's up to Jim to obtain justice for his mate. Was it just criminal negligence on the part of Voyager's captain, known throughout the Navy as Drunken Duncan, or did the rot go deeper? The suicide of Charlie's widow, Nola, worsens the tragedy and spreads the blame to areas unforeseen. A class action by the survivors against the Navy and the government seems like a good idea at the time but Jim finds obstructions in the path of justice. Jim falls in love with Nola's friend Jenny, whose brother, Paul, is threatened with conscription into the Army. Her mother, Shirley, founds an organisation called Save Our Sons campaigning against conscription and the Vietnam War. Jim commences officer training at about the time a Royal Commission into the disaster releases its findings, which are seen as a whitewash by Jim and his mates. What is justice? Jim wants to know. He joins several of his fellow survivors in a class action against the Navy and the Government but they encounter opposition from the authorities. On graduating from the naval college, Jim is posted to the Melbourne, deployed to Vietnam. He still experiences nightmares from his Voyager experience and his time in Vietnam is equally traumatic. He resigns from the Navy suffering from what we now call PTSD, although he doesn't know it. Only Jenny's love and forgiveness can rescue him from deep depression but when he enrolls at Sydney University he is thrust into the midst of student demonstrations. Paul lost his fight to stay out of the Army and was sent to Vietnam but is discharged medically unfit due to a drug addiction. Back in Sydney, he absconds from his rehab program and disappears. In search of him, Jenny volunteers as a counsellor at the Wayside Chapel providing support to addicts in King's Cross. Sydney has been invaded by American servicemen on R&R from Vietnam. Jenny's father, Richard, separated from Shirley, is a wealthy property developer. At Jenny's suggestion he employs Jim as skipper of his corporate cruiser, Alcyone, offering harbour cruises for American soldiers and others. One of her passengers, also an addict and a client of the Wayside Chapel, claims to have seen Jenny's brother. He exposes a CIA plot to smuggle heroin from Laos to the USA via Sydney. The CIA also plans to establish a bank in Sydney to launder their drug money and trade weapons throughout Asia and other parts of the world. A second whitewash Royal Commission into the sinking of Voyager and her alcoholic captain enrages Jim and his former shipmates. When Paul's corpse is found in a state of decay in an old house slated for demolition and development by Richard, it's the last straw for Jim. The ghastly discovery is enough to bring the family back together but Jim is even more determined to avenge his mate, and it's going to turn out badly for someone. Review by: Boris Seaweed on June 19, 2016: Thought-provoking and captivating book, written in smooth English and interspersed with Australian everyday spoken language, idioms and slang. Describing different sides of Australian life (the Navy, business, university life, Sydney city life, fashions, etc.) the author also delves into the recent history (Vietnam war and antiwar movement, politics, etc.). He also dares to weave into the plot and connect with the main character his version of mysterious disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt on December 17, 1967. And it is also a charming love and family story. Personally I have read the book in one breath.

A tale of courage against the odds. Crossover is inspired by and adapted in part from the ESPN documentary, Scarred, which is a true story; by eleven-time Emmy Award winner, Martin Khodadbakhshian. A story that moves from tragedy to triumph-from gritty Harlem to blue collar Brooklyn to blueblood Connecticut and then shifts out west to sunny Southern California. It covers the country and will appeal to everyone. It tackles the issues of race, privilege, death, abuse, and forgiveness.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Tragedies Of The Liquor Traffic: A Non-sectarian, Non-political Appeal Against The Use Of Intoxicating Liquors John Regan M.A. Donohue & Co., 1917

Amorphous: Lindsey and Beth separated by thirty years. Or so it seems. Their lives are about to collide, changing them both forever. Will a higher power intervene and re-write their past and future?Legerdemain (Sleight of hand): Ten winners of a competition held by the handsome and charismatic billionaire, Christian Gainford are invited to his remote house in the Scottish Highlands. But is he all he seems and what does he have in store for them? There really is no such thing as a free lunch, as the ten are about to discover.Broken: Sandi and Steve are thrown together. By accident or design? Steve is forced to fight not only for Sandi but for his own sanity. Can he trust his senses when everything he ever relied on appears suspect?Insidious: Killers are copying the crimes of the dead psychopath, Devon Wicken. Will Jack be able to save his wife, Charlotte, from them? Or are they always one step ahead of Jack?A series of short stories cleverly linked together in an original narrative with one common theme. Reality. But what's real and what isn't? Exciting action mixed with humour and mystery will keep you guessing throughout. It will alter your perceptions forever. Reality just got a little weirder! Fact or fiction...you decide!Seeing is most definitely not believing!

Follow the greatest sea voyage in history through the eyes of Antonio Pigafetta, its chronicler. The Line of Demarcation divides the world between Portugal and Spain but nobody knows on which side the fabulous Spice Isles lie. Only one man has the skill, the knowledge, the experience and determination to settle the question: Ferdinand Magellan who is hated both in Spain and Portugal. Antonio Pigafetta casts his lot with a captain set up to fail. He has no idea what he has let himself in for. Murder, mutiny, shipwreck and religious wars are just part of it.

Hilarious comedy thriller!Private Detective, Bill Hockney, is murdered while searching for the fabled - Romanov Eagle, cast for The Tsar. His three nephews inherit his business and find themselves not only attempting to discover its whereabouts, but also who killed their uncle.A side-splitting story, full of northern humour, nefarious baddies, madcap characters, plot twists, real ale, multiple showers, out of control libido, bone-shaped chews and a dog called Baggage.Can Sam, Phillip and Albert, assisted by Sam's best friend Tommo, outwit the long list of people intent on owning the statue, while simultaneously trying to keep a grip on their love lives?Or will they be thwarted by the menagerie of increasingly desperate villains?Solving crime has never been this funny!

Sandra Stewart and her daughter are brutally murdered in 2006. Her husband is wanted in connection with their deaths.Why has he returned eight years later?Detective Inspector Peter Graveney is catapulted headlong into an almost unfathomable case, Thwarted at every turn. are there people close to the investigation determined to prevent him from finding out what really happened?As he becomes ever more embroiled, He battles with his past, the skeletons in his own closet, rattle loudly. But who's manipulating who? And as he moves ever closer to the truth, he finds the person he holds most dear, threatened.Graphically covering adult themes 'The hanging tree' is a relentless edge of the seat ride, exploring the darkest of secrets and the things people will do to keep those secrets hidden. Culminating in a horrific and visceral finale."Even the darkest of secrets deserve an audience."

An in-depth digital investigation of the 18th-century British corpus, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis in historical corpora. There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting these forces, this book presents how distant reading 18th-century corpora can tell us something new, methodologically defensible and, crucially, interesting, about the most common constructions of word meanings and epistemes in the printed British 18th century. Through the case studies in this book, computation brings to light some remarkable facts about collectively-produced forms of meaning, without which the most common meanings of words, and the ways of knowing that they constituted, would remain matters of conjecture rather than evidence. Providing the first investigation of collective meaning and knowledge in the British 18th century, this interdisciplinary study builds on the existing stores of close reading, praxis, and history of ideas, presenting a view constructed at scale, rather than at the level of individual texts.

Return of the Children is a beautiful story which follows the travels of forty million children who journey from Heaven to Earth on a mission of peace. Sent by God, they bring His gifts of love, mercy, forgiveness and healing to their mothers and fathers who had aborted them. Magnificent and emotional reunions bring joy and happiness to millions of families as a great wave of God's love sweeps across America.

'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair's 'Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal' (1763) and 'Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres' (1783), Thomas Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry' (1765), Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' (1767) and Lord Monboddo's 'Of the Origin and Progress of Language' (1774). In these texts and many more, verse is examined for what it can tell the historian about the progress of enlightened man to civil society. By historicizing poetry, these theorists used it as a lens through which we might observe our development from savagery to 'polish', with oral verse often cited as proof of the backwardness or immaturity of man from which he has awoken.'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' deepens our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic texts from these decades. In five case studies, this volume demonstrates how verse was employed to deliver deeply ambivalent reports on human progress. In this pre-'Romantic', pre-'Utilitarian' age, those reading verse with an eye to what it could convey about the journey towards the Enlightenment Republic of letters were in fact telling stories as subtle and ambiguous as the rhythms of the verse being read. Rather than focusing on a limited set of particular poets, 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' pays close attention to the theories of versification which were circulating in the later anglophone eighteenth century. With numerous examples from poems and writing on poetics, this book shows how the poetic line becomes a site at which one may make assertions about human development even as one may observe and appreciate the expressive effects of metred language.The central contention of 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' is that the historians and theorists of the time did not merely instrumentalize verse in the construction of historical narratives of progress, but that attention to the particular characteristics of verse (rhythm and metre, line endings, stress contours, rhyme, etc.) had a kind of agency - it crucially reshaped - historical knowledge in the time. 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' is a sustained assertion that poetry makes appeals to what was known as one's 'taste', exerting aesthetic forces, and by so doing mediating one's understanding of human development. It claims that this mediation has a special shape and force that has never undergone sufficient exploration.