Irvine: 294 books

Phase Change (2180): Commander Xiu-Li Chen, after mulling over her situation en route to a metting with Admiral Matisou, is made a captain in Space Aliance Systems Space Fleet at last. Captain Xiu-Li Chen is given command of a new COURIER Class ship, SAS JAGUAR, and an operational mission to act as...

After a helicopter flying the U.S. Secretary of State crashes in early December 2012 during a “beyond secret” mission in eastern Afghanistan, Army Lt. Michelle “Hawkdove” Paris must keep her alive and out of enemy hands until they can be rescued from hostile territory. This is not what happened,...

Sam Oliver never expected the British science consortium he worked for would ever need his skills as a former Air Force Pararescue specialist, but early one rainy December morning they call him. A science expedition to Antarctica needs someone who can climb, knows how to live and work in polar climates,...

A writer recounts odd conversations, food, bands, and other diversions experienced at FIASCO'S, winner of a Least Awful Gourmet Award for its "signature Italian-type food," whatever that is. Meet owner Adolfo MacDuff, maitre'd Carmina Burana, chef Falcon Roost, and many others who are frequently found...

Doing a friend a favor isn’t supposed to risk life and limb, but that’s what happens when millionaire Baxter Benton asks his old pal Leto Macellum for one. Within six hours Leto has nearly been blown up, beaten up, shot (twice), and Baxter has vanished into the Florida sunshine. Will this be a...

When radiologist Dr. Andy Bosch agrees to help the legal team representing his Tae Kwon Do teacher, who has been accused of murder, he doesn’t expect he will soon be beaten up, will fall in love, and will find himself about to be killed by the actual killer, all in the course of one week. Lawyer...

Following discovery of the Shoggoth in Antarctica during the ill fated Hobblestone-Thorpe Expedition, sole survivor Sam Oliver has had a difficult time readjusting to his life on Earth as he knew it. Then “Mayday” and “abandoning ship” are the last words heard from Clementine Prioress, the...

From the celebrated author of the bestselling cult classic Trainspotting, a new work of fiction that triumphantly puts the E back in Eros. With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance...

In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building...

The period between 1916 and 1956 was a unique interval in the history of Canadian publishing. During this period not only were a significant number of non-commercial literary, arts, and cultural magazines established, but it also happened that an unprecedented number of those involved in the creation...

The days in which you and I are living are days in which Christians need to know their Bibles, for the only way by which we may know whether or not a system of teaching is of God is by viewing the system through the lens of Holy Writ—reading the system in the light of the Bible and not reading the...

SKAGBOYS, TRAINSPOTTING, PORNO: DA QUESTI LIBRI I FILM TRAINSPOTTING E T2 TRAINSPOTTING  Diretti da Danny Boyle e Ewan McGregor Un pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie e i loro «soci». Il racconto sboccato e travolgente della loro vita, fatta di sesso,...

So much of modern motherhood is targeted at looking good, even when you feel crap, and making your baby look good, even when he or she won’t settle or feed or stop crying – all in the shortest time possible. Hello Baby! uncovers all the myths of perfection new mums see on Instagram and...

IL NUOVO, TRAVOLGENTE ROMANZO DELL’AUTORE DI TRAINSPOTTING «Di Welsh ce n’è uno solo, e dovete leggerlo.» The Observer «Sporco, spassoso, trascinante.» Esquire «Sfrenato, esplosivo: una lettura mozzafiato.» The Sunday Mirros «C'è un piacere oscuro, speciale,...