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Book Synopsis Fitz James O'Brien by : Francis Wolle
Download or read book Fitz James O'Brien written by Francis Wolle and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Download or read book The Sculpted Ship written by K. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starship Repair and Society Manners She dreamed of adventuring across the stars as captain of her own sleek ship. Then Anailu Xindar grew up.She didn't lose her dream - she changed it; made it practical. She became a starship engineer; she saved her money; she earned the skills and experience a starship captain would need.She still didn't feel ready to go out on her own - but then her safe job went sour.With her newly minted Imperial Shipmaster's License in hand, Anailu just needs to find and buy a cheap, reliable freighter. Instead, she ends up making a crazy deal for an impractical, rare ship that's long on beauty - but short a few critical components.She's determined to get her crippled ship back out among the stars, but her technical skills won't be enough. Anailu will have to brave the dangers of a planet on the edge of the empire: safaris, formal dinners, rogue robots, and a fashion designer.She may even have to make a few friends - and enemies.The Sculpted Ship is set on the outskirts of a thousand-year interstellar empire, where a young woman with ambition, skill, and manners has a chance to achieve her dreams.
Download or read book Paradise Falls written by Keith O'Brien and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today. “Propulsive...A mighty work of historical journalism...A glorious quotidian thriller about people forced to find and use their inner strength.” —The Boston Globe Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. But in the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly sweet smell of chemicals. In this propulsive work of narrative storytelling, NYT journalist Keith O’Brien uncovers how Gibbs and Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canal—Love Canal, it was called—that Hooker Chemical, the city’s largest employer, had quietly filled with twenty thousand tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen before and sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick. O’Brien braids together previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemical’s deeds; the local newspaperman, scientist, and congressional staffer who tried to help; the city and state officials who didn’t; and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference to save their families and their children. They would take their fight all the way to the top, winning support from the EPA, the White House, and even President Jimmy Carter. By the time it was over, they would capture America’s imagination. Sweeping and electrifying, Paradise Falls brings to life a defining story from our past, laying bare the dauntless efforts of a few women who—years before Erin Brockovich took up the mantle— fought to rescue their community and their lives from the effects of corporate pollution and laid foundation for the modern environmental movement as we know it today.
Download or read book The Drowned Book written by Sean O'Brien and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the poems in Sean O'Brien's new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of Dante's Inferno, and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O'Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and The Drowned Book contains a number of powerfully moving poems written in memory of fellow poets and artists. The Drowned Book again shows O'Brien a master of the authoritative line, and underscores his pre-eminence among contemporary English poets. Praise for Sean O'Brien's verse translation of Dante's Inferno: 'Compelling, with a steady incandescence to the language' Independent 'All life is written in Dante's burning pages, and Sean O'Brien is to be congratulated on his expert rehabilitation of a classic' Spectator 'Combines urgent readability with a muscular forcefulness' The Economist
Download or read book Dad's Maybe Book written by Tim O'Brien and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling author shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned inwartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
Download or read book July, July written by Tim O'Brien and published by HMH. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny” novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald). From a National Book Award winner who’s been called “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Examiner), July, July tells the story of ten old friends who attended Darton Hall College together back in 1969, and now reunite for a summer weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing—and regretting. The three decades since graduation have brought marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and replaced. This witty, heart-rending novel about men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals and innocence began to fade, a New York Times Notable Book, is “deeply satisfying” (O, the Oprah Magazine) and “almost impossible to put down” (Austin American-Statesman). “A symphony of American life.” —All Things Considered, NPR
Book Synopsis The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien by : Thomas William
Download or read book The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien written by Thomas William and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilariously funny satire of life in Alaska as seen through the misadventures of a warm-hearted but bumbling neophyte.
Download or read book Laursen V. O'Brien written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bold Dare All by : L. Ron Hubbard
Download or read book The Bold Dare All written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by Galaxy Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As brash and bold and daring as Steve McQueen, Lieutenant Lee Briscoe will never back away from a good cause or good fight. And when it comes to heroism, he and McQueen are in the same band of brothers. Briscoe’s gone undercover to infiltrate a slave-labor camp on an island in Southeast Asia, knowing full well that once he goes in, he may never get out. Posing as a man on the run for murder, he may soon wish he had run in the opposite direction. His adversary on the island is Schwenk—a man who is not only a connoisseur of cruelty, but an expert at delivering it. And for Briscoe, the stakes have just shot up. An innocent young woman has landed on the island and fallen into Schwenk’s clutches, sold to him to do with her as he pleases. Escape is the only option . . . or both Briscoe and the girl are sure to face a fate worse than death. L. Ron Hubbard once wrote in his journal: “There must be wide spaces in which to think, strange music to hear, odd costumes to see and the elements to battle against. Money, nice cars, good food and a ‘good job’ mean nothing to me when compared to being able to possess the thought that there is a surprise over the horizon.” Venturing toward that horizon, at age seventeen Ron set sail for the South Pacific in July 1927, and after spending time getting to know the local natives, he signed aboard a working schooner bound for China’s coast. Along the way, Ron encountered many dangers lurking in the thick jungle mists—firsthand experience that contributed to stories like The Bold Dare All.
Book Synopsis The Brothers O'Brien by : William W. Johnstone
Download or read book The Brothers O'Brien written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The War Between the States has ended. Now, driven from Texas by carpetbaggers, former CSA Colonel Shamus O'Brien sets off for a new frontier--New Mexico. Here, where land is cheap, bandits shoot to kill, and rustlers rule the night, it takes more than one man to run a ranch. So he offers a pertnership to his eldest son, Jacob, with equal shares going to his sons Sam, Patrick, and Shawn. Together, the brothers O'Brien will defend their homestead, the Dromore, in this violent, lawless land ... and when necessary, administer their onwn brand of frontier justice."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Things They Carried by : Tim O'Brien
Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Book Synopsis Remembering Brown at Fifty by : Orville Vernon Burton
Download or read book Remembering Brown at Fifty written by Orville Vernon Burton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later
Book Synopsis The New York City Marathon by : Richard O'Brien
Download or read book The New York City Marathon written by Richard O'Brien and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you tell the story of a race that symbolizes New York City’s vitality, diversity, and charm? Here, Richard O’Brien offers more than forty definitive articles from over the years that capture the color and excitement of one of the world's most beloved annual events. In this rich run through the decades, readers will revisit all of the results, relive all of the highlights, and share the road again with all of the marathon’s unforgettable figures, including Fred Lebow, Grete Waitz, Bill Rodgers, Germán Silva, Meb Keflezighi, Mary Keitany, Shalane Flanagan, and so many others. With special sections highlighting the race’s volunteers, spectators, celebrities, and more, as well as an introduction by New York Road Runners Chairman of the Board George Hirsch, the book celebrates the marathon’s first fifty years with a thrilling selection of photographs. Like the stories of everyday women and men overcoming obstacles to complete the race, these curated images capture the inimitable charge of running the New York City Marathon, while providing a compelling visual tapestry reflecting a half century of cultural change. The images not only show how running gear and hairstyles changed from the early 1970s to the present, but they also reveal the ever-dynamic political and cultural climate of New York City. This beautifully designed, heavily illustrated coffee-table style book is the perfect gift for any fan of this fifty-year-old race!
Download or read book The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht) written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with Edna O'Brien by : Alice Hughes Kersnowski
Download or read book Conversations with Edna O'Brien written by Alice Hughes Kersnowski and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Who’s afraid of Edna O’Brien?” asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O’Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O’Brien (b. 1930) saw her early works, starting in 1960 with The Country Girls, banned and burned in Ireland, but often read in secret. Her contemporary work continues to spark debates on the rigors and challenges of Catholic conservatism and the struggle for women to make a place for themselves in the world without anxiety and guilt. The raw nerve of emotion at the heart of her lyrical prose provokes readers, challenges politicians, and proves difficult for critics to place her. In these interviews, O’Brien finds her own critical voice and moves interviewers away from a focus on her life as the “once infamous Edna” toward a focus on her works. Parallels between Edna O’Brien and her literary muse and mentor, James Joyce, are often cited in interviews such as Philip Roth’s description of The Country Girls as a “rural Dubliners.” While Joyce is the centerpiece of O’Brien’s literary pantheon, allusions to writers such as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, and Woolf become a medium for her critical voice. Conversations with contemporary writers Philip Roth and Glenn Patterson reveal Edna O’Brien’s sense of herself as a contemporary writer. The final interview included here, with BBC personality William Crawley at Queen’s University Belfast, is a synthesis of her acceptance and fame as an Irish writer and an Irish woman and an affirmation of her literary authority.
Download or read book Left for Dead written by Kevin O'Brien and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something She Can't Remember When Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital, she remembers nothing of what has happened to her. She doesn't recognize the concerned faces of her husband and friends. She knows only that she is lucky to be alive, the single surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. Someone Who Won't Forget She was a mistake--not like the others. She didn't understand. That was obvious now. But she would come to understand. Next time, there would be no escape--and her eyes would fill with that perfect, beautiful terror. . . Some Things You Can't Imagine On an island isolated from the mainland, Claire has returned to a life she barely knows anymore. A town that feels as if it, too, is hiding something in its dark woods, remote cabins, and chilly smiles. Bit by bit, Claire's memory is taking terrifying shape in a place where fear is very much at home. . . Praise for the Novels of Kevin O'Brien "Another taut page-turner."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer "O'Brien does what he does best: keeping the suspense at unbelievably high levels." --The Midwest Book Review "Imaginative, well written. . .add this book to your summer reading list." --Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas)