Bøger af Michael Breen

The sequel to the award-winning indie novel, Ever the Night Road.This is a fantasy. Of a shifting city hidden in the weeds. Of princesses turned to metal and rust. Of knights eternal and a queen of dreams. And a deep underground.The adventure continues where Ever the Night Road left off. Now eighteen, Dagny Losh must brave the mythical, labyrinthine city of Jud, where streets and buildings shift with the twilight, and each door and alleyway may give rise to the most unexpected encounters.

IPPY Book Awards Gold Medal WinnerReaders Favorite International Book Awards Gold Medal WinnerA Wishing Shelf Book Award WinnerThis is a fantasy. Of a City of water and glass. Of drowned things and lost memories lying just below its surface. Of concrete slums, and a decaying Oracle Tower. And a deep underground. It is also a fantasy of orphan children. Like Dagny Losh. She is an escape artist. Not a chosen profession but a survival tactic, thrust upon her at a young age to break free from poverty and violence, fever and flood. While others perished, Dagny emerged into a privileged world of polished brass gates and opportunity. But she is an imposter, a misfit in fine clothes. Perfumed with dirty fingernails. Now, at seventeen, Dagny remains rudderless and lonely. Longing for a connection to a changing world. What she finds is a fragment of her old life, before the river washed everything away. A fragment once thought forever lost. And it will take all she has to protect it.

In the beginning ... there was a meeting, and the gods decided how to parcel the earth among themselves; Yahweh kept Israel for himself. Then something goes wrong: snake shows up, Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden, and they end up in the portions of the earth reserved to the other gods. Chaos follows: Cain sacrifices Abel to Yahweh and cannibalizes him. One of the lost tribes of Israel ends up in Hell. A medieval anchorite imprisons herself in a hermit's cell, trying to escape Hell. A poor fundamentalist preacher is given a sacred charm, sells it, and seizes power in the name of Christ. A holy huddle of Christians tries to seal itself off from the sin of the world in a high-security bunker, schisms, and reunites against the threat of a holy impostor. Scientists at the famous CERN laboratory dethrone God while looking for the God Particle. God laughs. What do these fables have in common? They are untold stories of the Bible; stories that will provoke and perhaps insult you. Each carefully researched story in Modern Myths originates in a passage from scripture, and tells a tale of the pervasive shadow side of God and religion in the beginning, through the arc of history, and in the scientific instruments used to look back at the beginning.

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.

An active area of study and debate in second language acquisition is "learner contribution" - what a learner can bring to the learning process. This text presents an account of learners' personal attributes - those that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning.