O Rourke: 154 books

For Kassidy Bell and her friends, the race is on to keep ahead of the Cleaners, reach Broken Cove and destroy the coffins. But tensions are running high within the group and the voices inside Kassidy’s head are becoming stronger and filling her mind with suspicious thoughts about her friends. Who...

With all hope resting on the help of Doctor Langstone, Kassidy and her friends enter Cruor Pharma’s sister company. Suspicions run high as concerns that maybe one of her friends is really Doshia, Kassidy is uncertain who to trust and with the new member to their group, Sylvia, those suspicions become...

When nineteen year-old Rosie Whitby loses her father to consumption, she is faced with either a life of poverty or a move to Windy Edge where her estranged uncle is residing in the local rectory. Having heard that her uncle is a difficult man, Rosie is reluctant to go but with nowhere else to live,...

With The Philistine Gamble, ORourke adds mystery and a noir style to his mantra of Murder, Menace and Merriment. Compost happens. Discount private eye Nick Gamble says that a lot, usually when he opens the mail, but today its worse. Our flawed and philandering PI finds his friend and mentor, Bishop...

There’s none so blind as she who can see . . . Esther is blessed, and cursed, with a rare gift: the ability to see the fates of those around her. But when she escapes her peasant upbringing to become a priestess of the Order, she begins to realise how valuable her ability is among the power-hungry...

Did you know that any straight-line drawing on paper can be folded so that the complete drawing can be cut out with one straight scissors cut? That there is a planar linkage that can trace out any algebraic curve, or even 'sign your name'? Or that a 'Latin cross' unfolding of a cube can be refolded...

Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.

This study seeks to present the theory of freedom as found in one line of the Marxist tradition, that which begins with Marx and Engels and continues through Lenin to contemporary Soviet philosophy. Although the primary goal is simply to describe how freedom is con­ ceived by the thinkers of this...

This is the revised and expanded 1998 edition of a popular introduction to the design and implementation of geometry algorithms arising in areas such as computer graphics, robotics, and engineering design. The basic techniques used in computational geometry are all covered: polygon triangulations,...

Andrea North is looking forward to a job at Lake Waihola as a way to escape from a man who tried to control her life, but an easy task is soon complicated by a house with a secret hoard, dead birds, and a close encounter with a callous but good looking pig hunter.  When the campground dog pulls a...

This consummate description of the wildlife of the Aran Islands - its flora, fauna, geology and climate - is by an expert intimately familiar with the landscape. The outcome of lifelong study and observation, it condenses key facts from the writings on Aran, illustrates them copiously with colour...

Riley Lowe is backstage at another show, but this time she is out of her depth, running equipment she doesn't understand and faced with all sorts of problems including a boy actor who is a spoilt little brat. When her personal vampires arrive to help, Riley thinks everything has suddenly got better,...

Riley's best friend, Anita, has convinced Riley and Severn to provide the technicals for a medieval re-enactment and fantasy convention run by the grandparent's of Anita's unborn baby, but they won't be paid because one of the committee has stolen the society's funds. Riley's attempts to find out...

The body on New Brighton beach has made headline news, the Reverend and Aiden are keeping secrets from Severn, and Riley believes someone is following her. When a video of Aiden flying goes viral, religious panic puts the vampires' identify and secrets under threat. As they try to solve the mystery...