O Connor: 968 books
by Karen O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Karen O’Connor, author of the highly popular Getting’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 260,000 copies sold) tunes into the hilarious, surprising, and sometimes insightful things that grandchildren say.Funny quotes and vignettes celebrate the candid comedy that children bring to our lives. Among...
Lord, How Did I Get This Old So Soon?
Prayers and Promises to Brighten Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Need a quick pick-me-up? A brief communion with God? Bestselling author and gentle humorist Karen O’Connor offers simple-yet-beautiful prayers that reveal God’s heart and the blessings he gives. Each uplifting meditation helps you talk with God about your needs and thank him for his love and provision....
The Upside of Downsizing
50 Ways to Create a Cozy Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Popular author and humorist Karen O’Connor reveals that life after 50 is great! Most people have raised their families, established careers, and chosen lifestyles they enjoy. Now they look forward to times of cozier living with less stress and more joy, simplicity, and relaxation. Drawing on real-life...
It's Taken Years to Get This Old
A Lighthearted Look at the Senior Moments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Speaker and humorist Karen O’Connor (Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps, more than 245,000 copies sold) takes a lighthearted look at the perils of growing older. In this engaging collection of short stories, Karen shares what she and her fellow senior citizens have experienced that make the golden...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
by Denis John O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
From the bestselling author of Paw Tracks in the Moonlight comes a new adventure with Denis O?Connor and his beloved cat Toby Jug. When Denis receives a call to help an abused and starved racehorse called Lady May, he has no idea how this new bond of friendship will shape his life. Toby, Denis and...
Complete Book of Rifles And Shotguns
with a Seven-Lesson Rifle Shooting Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit them, modern shotguns and how to use them, double, pump, automatic, shotgun stocks, shells, chokes,...
by Jane Catherine O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O’Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled...
Paw Tracks
A Childhood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Scarred by the rejection and humiliation which he suffers at the hands of his unloving father, the young Denis O'Connor finds solace in the woods and riverbanks of his native Northumberland.
Nevertheless, his newly found happiness communing with nature and the local animals - a neighbour's...
Never Shower in a Thunderstorm
Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The New York Times's intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums
For more than two years, the New York Times's science and health columnist Anahad O'Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives'...
Take Control of Your Anxiety
A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Do you know what really triggers panic attacks? Are you aware of what thinking patterns create anxiety? Are you a chronic worrier? Have you ever self-medicated with alcohol or tranquilizers?
According to mental health professionals, anxiety disorders have emerged as the common cold of mental...
by Karen O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With delightful wit, tongue-in-cheek humor, a good-natured sense of fun, and truths based on living, author, speaker, and humorist Karen O’Connor provides 365 great reasons that life gets even better when the senior years hit. One-line entries celebrate that “getting old ain’t so bad...
Universal Father
A Life of Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Pope John Paul II is now universally considered to have been one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and possibly the most politically influential pope since St Peter. His achievements are well documented, yet he once said, 'I can only be understood from the inside.' In this vivid and accessible...
The Moment You Can't Ignore
When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Not just another day at the office
or is it?
The surgical technician ducks as a stapler flies past his head during the concluding moments of a lengthy and difficult operation
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The high-powered, internationally known finance guru seeks to turn fortunes around at the university of...