Böcker av James Quinn

Can pizza really save a boy's life? Danny O'Shea is having the time of his life. At thirteen, his hockey team just won the league championship. He was even named tournament MVP! While riding home on the team bus, tragedy strikes. Suddenly his whole world is torn to pieces, and his life is changed forever. He is overwhelmed with emotions, grief, denial, anger, regret, and even guilt. Where will he go? What will happen to him now? He soon discovers his parents had planned for just such a scenario. With the help of his coach Shelby and his wife Julie, Danny slowly begins the process of rebuilding his life. Shelby and Julie's lives are also changed in ways they never could have imagined. They must fulfill a promise they made twelve years ago. In the midst of all this grief, is it really possible for a first true love to bloom? Crossing Thin Ice is a heartbreaking story told with humor through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy.

From its earliest days, Association Football was seen not just as a contest between individuals and teams, but also between nations and peoples. The Irish national team was among the first in the world to participate in international competition in the early 1880s, but not everyone accepted it as a truly national entity. Sport in Ireland was disputed ground in a manner that was not the case elsewhere - even the term ' football' itself was a contested one. But soccer followers generally found no contradiction between their sporting and national loyalties, and the game found an important niche in Irish life, supported by many leading nationalists, from James Connolly to John Hume. This book provides a unique window into the history of Ireland and Britain, with keen insights into the making of national, regional, sectarian, class and gender identities that crystallised around Irish soccer. Taking the story from the 1870s up to the present, it examines the domestic as well the international game in Ireland, North and South, and sets both in a richly detailed historical and cultural context.

Glasgow, Scotland, 1981. The McLachlan family have dominated the criminal underworld for more than a decade. Masters in extortion, murder and heroin trafficking, they hold the city in their iron fist.But a war is coming to Glasgow; a war unlike anything the McLachlans have known before. Over the course of one night, they will discover the wrath of one man: Jack "Gorilla" Grant, former spy and now freelance assassin.And he plays by his own set of violent, unforgiving rules.

Es la cúspide de la Guerra Fría, y un equipo de asesinos está persiguiendo agentes de la Inteligencia Británica.En medio de la desesperación, la agencia envía su mejor agente para cazar a los asesinos. Jack "Gorila" Grant no es el típico agente secreto. Inflexible y tosco, no se parece a los elegantes operativos de inteligencia.Arrastrado a un juego mortal, Jack pronto comprende que incluso el espía perfecto puede morir en un laberinto de espejos.

Después de que el Jefe del Servicio de Inteligencia Secreta sea asesinado, una organización terrorista planea liberar un arma de proporciones apocalípticas y poner de rodillas al gobierno británico.Un equipo de rechazo se reúne para cazar a los terroristas. Llamado desde la oscuridad para liderarlos está Jack "Gorila" Grant: un independiente con una Smith & Wesson' 39 y una navaja para degollar. Y está listo para ajustar cuentas a su propio estilo brutal.El equipo Centinela Cinco gira sus miras hacia el Este, y entra en un campo de muerte.

The collected hymns of James Quinn, SJ, featuring unpublished and well-known works. Many of these texts are drawn from Quinn's earliest works, published in 1969 in the collection "New Hymns for all Seasons".

Interest in documentary filmmaking has never been greater. There are more documentaries now playing in mainstream cinemas than ever before. The Documentary Masterclass offers an engaging insight into the techniques of ten leading documentary directors.