The definitive collection of the insights, wit and wisdom of the creator of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world, who has become the most powerful philanthropist in history.

Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a revered, and occasionally controversial, worldwide business icon for more than three decades.

Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary, and painted by some as a tyrannical, less-than-scrupulous empire builder, Gates has had an unignorable impact on the growth of digital technology in daily life over the past 30 years. Even his sharpest critics have to acknowledge the obvious: Gates helped spearhead one of the greatest revolutions in modern history by seizing on the importance of software to the rise of the personal computer, along the way turning an arcane, specialized technology into a commonplace tool for the office and home.

Gates has long been ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest men--which gave him a name recognition far greater than that of most CEOs--and businesspeople of all stripes have looked to him as a role model, using his words and business strategies to help create, inspire, and grow their own companies. After he stopped running Microsoft's day-to-day operations in 2008 to devote himself full-time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a kinder, gentler Gates began to emerge. As a result, people actively involved in the philanthropic world, whether in professional, part-time, or personal capacities, began to develop a new appreciation for the man.

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Sophie Sophia is obsessed with music from the late eighties.

She also plays guitar with The Cure, sees baby black bears falling from the sky and dances with the Ramones in the cafeteria. She sees things no one else sees. Does things you can hardly imagine. And even though it sounds like the most exciting, must-have kind of life, all she wants is what every other 14-year old girl wants: to fit in.

There may be troubles ahead...Northern Ireland. Spring 1981. Hunger strikes. Riots. Power cuts. A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera. And a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.

On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things - and people - aren't always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It's no easy job - especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA, but last seen discussing business with someone from the UVF. Add to that the fact that as a Catholic policemen, it doesn't matter which side he's on, because nobody trusts him - and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. Fast-paced, evocative and brutal, "The Cold, Cold Ground" is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles - and a cop treading a thin, thin line.

"McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground has got onto on my five best books of the year list as it is riveting, brilliant and just about the best book yet on Northern Ireland" - Ken Bruen

"Adrian McKinty is the voice of the new Northern Irish generation but he's not afraid to examine the past. This writer is a legend in the making and The Cold, Cold Ground is the latest proof of this"- Gerard Brennan

GK Films has acquired rights to "The 5th Wave," a proposal for a young-adult sci-fi book that is part of a planned trilogy from author Rick Yancey! 

Rick is an author with impressive literary acclaim.  He won a Printz Honor for the first book in his series The Monstrumologist. He has also been a finalist for several other major awards, has been included in dozens of national and state-wide ‘best of the year’ reading lists, and has many passionate admirers among booksellers, librarians, reviewers, bloggers—and of course, readers. A selection of his honors and reviews is included in the proposal and pasted below.

In The Fifth Wave, Cassie has survived the first three stages of an alien invasion which has left the Earth a desolate, barren place. She believes that they are now in the midst of the Fourth wave of the attack—a psychological surge of fear and paranoia brought on by the existence of what she calls The Silencers—beings that look human (and might even BE human traitors) who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Since it is impossible to tell a human from a Silencer, the survivors don’t know who to trust, and are therefore too fearful to band together to form a resistanc.

Rights sold in 9 countries!