Michael O Brien: 24 books
Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making...
Love Is Stronger Than Pain
Based on the Inspirational True Story of Irene Corcoran O’Brien as Remembered by Her Son Michael J. O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
In Love is Stronger than Pain, author Michael J. OBrien, Irenes son, offers a true account of a wife and mother whose faith and perseverance were heroic. She raised eight children, two of whom were invalids born with a rare skin disease needing her constant care. She coped with the tragic accidental...
Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows
Winning at Work and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
***ALL the profits from Shift will go to World Bicycle Relief.*** This is a must-read book for anyone looking to change their perspective and live a more purposeful life. Michael O'Brien (OB to his friends) shows that the secret to becoming our best starts with our mindset. Drawing on his personal...
Overcoming Injustice and Loss
Michael's Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Wrongly jailed for the murder of a Cardiff newsagent in 1987. Michael O'Brien became known as one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three. After serving eleven years and 43 days in prison, he was cleared at the Court of Appeal in 1999. Michael subsequently became an author and motivational speaker and has...
No Ordinary Joe
The Biography of Joe Paterno
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Paperback includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.
Mrs. Adams in Winter
A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
by Michael O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Catechism and Bible study made easy
It was read by both
Priests who met Jesus
Fr. Steven Scheier was told by Jesus that he was not worthy and was going to be sent to hell. Mother Mary pleaded with her son to give him another chance.
This is what Father Scheier had to...
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures...
Princes of Cotton
Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between seventeen and twenty-five. All had a connection...
Conversations with JFK
A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Imagined by one of the world's foremost JFK scholars, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of America's most glamorous and mythologised president.
For many, the presidency of John F. Kennedy was a magic interlude in American history. His admirers saw him as a leader...
by Michael O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Set in the final days of the first millennium, Mad Boy Chronicle hauls the Hamlet story howling back to its origins. Join the Mad Boy as he sets out in fierce pursuit of his destiny, in a world where wolves, elves, spirits, and Jesus Christ all compete for the future of humanity.
by Michael M. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
America's Destruction of Iraq by Washington insider Michael M. O'Brien details the origins of radical Islamic terrorism now spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. The outgrowth of America's involvement in Iraq, culminating with its March 2003 invasion, is the Islamic State–the most violent...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 21
March/April 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The March/April 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, A.T. Greenblatt, Emma Törzs, Sarah Monette, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Brandon O'Brien, reprinted fiction by Nalo Hopkinson, essays by R.F. Kuang, Neile Graham, Marissa Lingen, and Karlyn...
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