Connor: 1500 books
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...
E.Con the Icon
From Pop Culture to President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Eddie Connor presents E.CON the ICON, his most provocative and
controversially candid commentary. Eddie provides literary detail, through
vivid riffs and rhymes, as he perceptively muses on issues, from Pop Culture
to President Barack Obama.
Isnt it ironic that everything...
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...
Tattered Banners
Labor, Conflict, And Corporatism In Postcommunist Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In post-Soviet Russia’s transition to new political and economic systems, few issues are as important as labor. Although the “worker’s paradise” may have been largely imaginary, the loss of job security and benefits that has accompanied marketization could well become a catalyst for yet another...
by Steven Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
While previous writing on the philosophy of sport has tended to see sport as a kind of testing ground for philosophical theories devised to deal with other kinds of problems—of ethics, aesthetics, or logical categorization—here Steven Connor offers a new philosophical understanding of sport in...
Pineapple
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as “too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers’ kisses she bites—she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.” From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple...
Seaweed
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Some might be put off by its texture, aroma, or murky origins, but the fact of the matter is seaweed is one of the oldest human foods on earth. And prepared the right way, it can be absolutely delicious. Long a staple in Asian cuisines, seaweed has emerged on the global market as one of our new superfoods,...
by Russell C. Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Does the darkness in your bedroom at night seem a little too dark? What do you want bad enough to kill for it? Where would you run if the dead began to rise? Have you ever had a good reason to TRULY be afraid?
In these ten tales of terror, Russell C. Connor will ask the questions you don’t...
by Varley O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor
“Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue
“Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon
“Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they...
Black Tiger at Le Mans
The Black Tiger Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The third of six sports-car racing stories about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car—the Black Tiger.
Woody Hartford, already winner of the Mexican Road Race with his Black Tiger, doesn't want to race any more. It's too dangerous. He's got a wife now and a baby on the way....