Kirjahaku

Who's Your Daddy? Have you been holding back instead of leaning into life with a fearless sense of childlike trust? Are you consumed with chasing after provision instead of living with vision? Do you live your life the best you can and only ask for God's involvement when you need "a little help?" Have you found yourself conflicted on how to pray wondering if God wants you to hurt in order to teach you some eternal lesson? Who's Your Daddy? will help you to get free of these hindrances and develop a new understanding for a life of fulfillment. While your earthly dad is far from perfect the Heavenly Father is. The role our natural dads fill should point us to the wonderful reality that God is not distant or uninvolved in our lives. He called you before you were born, designed you with great intent and wants to help you to live out who He created you to be. You were created to do wonderful things. There are God sized dreams on the inside of you and He wants to order your footsteps to bring them into fruition. Life's sour experiences and even religion may have put obstacles in your path to see God for Who He is and how He cares for you. This book is aimed at helping to clear up the misunderstandings left by a hostile world. A new understanding about the perfect Heavenly Father will give you hope and confidence for each day. He is a good God and can't take His eyes off of you "

Zack, John, and Tony are the best of friends. They also happen to be at the top of their game; however, their "game" isn't exactly legal. After celebrating a job well done, their boss, whom nobody trusts, arrives with a new assignment. One that the three of them swore they would never take, one that makes Zack ask the one question you don't ask. Not only do they have to keep an eye on their boss, but they have also drawn the attention of a police captain that has a curious vendetta against them. While trying to hide their plan from their paranoid boss, they must also deal with the unprecedented lengths the police will go through to take them down. Using every resource they have, can they manage to do what they have their entire life, and stay one step ahead? Or will there finally be a situation that they don't see coming? The one question that is on everyone's mind is, who will betray who first? With all twist and turns, End Game is a nail-biter that will keep you guessing from start to finish.

Zack, John, and Tony are the best of friends. They also happen to be at the top of their game; however, their "game" isn't exactly legal. After celebrating a job well done, their boss, whom nobody trusts, arrives with a new assignment. One that the three of them swore they would never take, one that makes Zack ask the one question you don't ask. Not only do they have to keep an eye on their boss, but they have also drawn the attention of a police captain that has a curious vendetta against them. While trying to hide their plan from their paranoid boss, they must also deal with the unprecedented lengths the police will go through to take them down. Using every resource they have, can they manage to do what they have their entire life, and stay one step ahead? Or will there finally be a situation that they don't see coming? The one question that is on everyone's mind is, who will betray who first? With all twist and turns, End Game is a nail-biter that will keep you guessing from start to finish.

In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer’s block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to the Old Rectory nearby, their lives are transformed and an alcohol-fuelled affair begins. Hughes puts at risk everything he has ever loved – his wife Laura, teenage daughter Rachael and the bucolic ease of their quiet corner of Ireland. Nationalist resentment of this tax-free haven enjoyed by foreigners is sparked by events in Northern Ireland, and John finds himself in the middle of extortion, blackmail, marital betrayal and a suicide. As old and new friendships unravel, even lunchtime visits to the local pub become points of attrition. Losing his friends and mistress, John is forced to take responsibility for his actions in order to save his family and his integrity, and to find release as a writer.

Helen’s expectations were far from starry-eyed, but married life with Frank in the late 1960s seemed bewilderingly joyless; from the honeymoon in a seedy Paddington hotel complete with dirty linen and a nosy landlady, her new husband drinking until all hours with a shady ‘friend’, their first home in his parents’ Irish pub, in a provincial backwater town. Frank’s father was his own best customer, his mother a shrill and censorious presence in the background, with the local priest as her only friend. Would she allow a sense of hopefulness to creep upon her when she finds out that a baby is on the way? The Sinners’ Bell is Kevin Casey’s first novel, published in 1968 by Faber & Faber. He reveals a striking capacity to convey with sympathy and unsentimental understanding the feelings of the inarticulate, and his portrayal of Helen’s struggle to come to terms with her own unhappiness is profoundly moving. Atmospheric and finely written, this exposé of a shotgun wedding and subsequent marriage is a jewel of narration, and a reissue that is long overdue.

The wonderfully observational poems in Kevin Casey's American Lotus remind us how separate we are from the natural world, how we sometimes suffer because of that estrangement, and offer us a way to bridge that divide. With a radical sympathy, poems like "Red Maple (Acer rubrum)" suggest that like this tree "felled weeks ago, plunging with a sigh/ as the earth rushed up to receive it" we too have been "trimmed from this life." Once inside the rooms of these poems, deep images, sly rhythms and musicality reward close reading as in "Hancock Point, Early Autumn" where "Autumn is a bleached whelk chrysalis, / a mermaid's purse of brine and bone." And yet, the "ripe and heavy" "game bags at our backs" in "Partridge Hunting" will likely break your heart.--Nina Dellaria, Co-Founder & Editor of Bird's Thumb

A truly captivating book which reflects on and memorializes our place within nature. A timeless and beautifully crafted collection. -Ben Banyard, Poet & Editor of Clear Poetry With great care to conscience Kevin Casey conveys his inner world, where he may grow a metaphysical orange tree inside himself and then lament the butchering of a lamb, 'its soft, stretched body as white as the rope that fastened it, ' at Easter. Casey creates poetry laced with descriptive detail that pays attention to the sensual in Ways to Make a Halo. -Orla Fay, Poet & Editor of Boyne Berries Magazine In Ways to Make a Halo, Kevin Casey seamlessly brings elements of the divine and the natural world together with very human moments, elevating the everyday to great effect. Casey's innovative use of language is subtle but powerful; these lines sneak into your heart, like an accidental glimpse at forgotten photographs. The tiny stories within each of the poems will share something new with every read through. -Kate Garrett, Poet & Editor of Picaroon Poetry