Brien: 1080 books
by Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien.
The Body of an American (2M) Two actors embody more than thirty roles in an exhilarating new form of documentary theatre, against a backdrop of some of the world's most iconic images of war.
The...
The Violence of Climate Change
Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, Kevin J. O’Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. Global warming is largely...
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...
Semisweet
An Orphan's Journey Through the School the Hersheys Built
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is that the school for orphans owns The Hershey...
by Richard J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
According to the Global Protestant Nation, ‘once you are saved, you are always saved’, thus declaring purgatory a myth. This idea came from of the leader of the Protestant Nation Martin Luther, not the Bible. Divine revelation says we must atone for our sins in purgatory before we ascend into...
by Kate O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Cara and Sally are the best of friends. As life takes them in different directions, grief and desire, moon dust and magic trigger a chain of events from which they will never recover.
Holly and Ethan are the best of friends. While one child is harshly neglected the other is loved beyond measure.
Their...
by Fitz James O' Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Wondersmith is a short novel written by Fitz James O'Brien in 1858. The story focuses on a robot rebellion: toys possessed by evil spirits come alive and they turn against their creators. The Wondersmith is considered one of the most impressive examples of surreal fiction ...
Mute Witness
An Anne Cartier Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Picture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman—dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll… It’s the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew. Anne Cartier, a headstrong young vaudeville actress at Sadler’s Wells company in London hears terrible news. Her stepfather,...
Petitioning for Land
The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Petitioning for Land is the first book to examine the extent of First Peoples political participation through the use of petitions. Interpreting petitions as a continuous form of political articulation, Karen O'Brien considers petitioning for recognition of prior land ownership as a means by which...
La aventura ignaciana
Cómo vivir los Ejercicios Espirituales de san Ignacio de Loyola en el día a día
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2017
No hay mejor guía que san Ignacio de Loyola para descubrir la manera en que la fe y la vida cotidiana pueden prosperar juntas. En La aventura ignaciana, Kevin O’Brien, SJ, siguiendo la guía de san Ignacio, ofrece a las personas de hoy, siempre escasas de tiempo, una forma única de “hacer”...
Labour Internationalism in the Global South
The SIGTUR Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Labour internationalism is often viewed as impossible or inevitable, depending upon political perspective. O'Brien argues for a more nuanced, diverse understanding of labour internationalism, identifying six different 'faces', shaped by the national or global orientation of particular groups in the...
Jerzy Popieluszko
La vérité contre le totalitarisme
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2016
« Écoute Jerzy, situ dois faire quelque chose, c'est le jour ! » Aussitôt après mondépart, le mourant ouvre les yeux et demande ce qui lui arrive. Quelques joursplus tard, le corps médical constate que le cancer a disparu.C'est ce miracle, dontj'ai été l'instrument, le « serviteur inutile »,...
by Dianna Borsi O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Charles W. Gehrke was unflinching. Determined. Persistent. He grew up among the poorest of the poor, yet carried only happy memories of those early years. Out of necessity he learned the value of hard work, as he and his brother helped support their family, even as children–but he never complained...
I'll Be Back Right After This
My Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A New York Times Best seller!
Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become,...