O Connor: 968 books
Olympians: Aphrodite
Goddess of Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In volume six of Olympians, graphic novel author/artist George O'Connor turns the spotlight on Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Look for the same thoroughly researched and wonderfully accessible comics storytelling as O'Connor tackles the story of the Aphrodite from her dramatic birth (emerging from...
The Majesty of the Law
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this remarkable book, a national bestseller in hardcover, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history,...
Resurrection Science
Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 **
**A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September**
In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme...
An English Spring
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted.
With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...
Undoing Depression
What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O'Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression....
Poverty Knowledge
Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge...
by A.W. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
What is it you really want from your life? What do you truly desire?
The list might be long or short...more money, financial security, a dream home, the perfect job, true love, peace, happiness, spiritual growth… Life is full of wants and desires.
Have you ever wondered why it seems...
by Scott O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Midway through his summer vacation, eight year-old Huddie Blaylock suddenly realizes the reason for his recent, nagging paranoia: his normal, if slightly dysfunctional family has been replaced by imposters. Possessing the inflexible determination of the young and/or mentally ill, he embarks on a decade-long,...
Olympians: Zeus
King of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
George O'Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he's out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind's ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon.
In OLYMPIANS, O'Connor draws from primary documents to...
Happy at Last
The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From the bestselling author of Undoing Depression – a groundbreaking program to get happy and stay happy!
Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the brain...
Always Follow the Elephants
More Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths about Our Health and the World We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
From The New York Times's intrepid "Really?" reporter and author of the bestselling Never Shower in a Thunderstorm, more mind-opening health facts (and fictions)
In this follow-up to the bestselling Never Shower in a Thunderstorm, New York Times columnist Anahad O'Connor uncovers...
The Courage to Love: Surviving and Thriving in Your Relationship
A Practical Guide for Couples in Distress from Dr Colm O'Connor, a Clinical Psychologist and Couples Therapist
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Dr Colm O’Connor, a clinical psychologist and couples therapist, has for over twenty years explored the emotional lives of couples and researched hundreds of cases of couples in distress.
Looking beneath the surface of everyday complaints, The Courage to Love reveals those insights and shows...
Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?
More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions about Birds and Birding
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A collection of humorous Q&As about everything you've always wanted to ask about birds and birding
Mike O’Connor knows bird watchers as well as he knows birds. He knows that if you’re even slightly interested in identifying birds or attracting them to your backyard with a feeder, then you’ve...
by Stephen O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**“Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson’s life ever.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post
Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in...