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Wesley the Owl
The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild....
WTF?
What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today’s economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement, and technology bears some of the blame. In this combination of memoir, business strategy guide, and call to action, Tim O'Reilly, Silicon Valley’s leading...
Holidays in Heck
A Former War Correspondent Experiences Frightening Vacation Fun
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Humorous essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on travel, late-life parenting, and other perils.
P. J. O’Rourke, hailed as “one of America’s most hilarious writers” by Time, is the author of the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on...
Rala
A Life in Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Irish rugby as you've never seen it before -- from the man who got the job every rugby lover would love to have.
'Rala has a gift for making people feel at ease and special at the same time' Paul O'Connell
Patrick 'Rala' O'Reilly has been bagman for the Irish rugby team for over twenty...
A Radiant Life
The Selected Journalism of Nuala O'Faolain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Writings from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Are You Somebody?, on topics from Catholicism to feminism to Irish American culture, and more.
Curious and funny, tender and scathing, Nuala O’Faolain’s columns in the Irish Times were never less than trenchant and always passionate....
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist...
Breakthrough
Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In this New York Times bestseller, controversial ambush journalist James O’Keefe takes a hard-hitting look at how the media and government conspire to protect the status quo: “A spine-tingling, true crime thriller about the quest for truth in the age of media obfuscation” (Gavin McInnes, FOX...
Are You There Alone?
The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it.
As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary...
Into the Rising Sun
In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there...
Beyond Valor
World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Previous books have promised to describe the combat experience of the World War II GI, but there has never been a book like Patrick O'Donnell's Beyond Valor. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of...
by Michael M. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
America's Destruction of Iraq by Washington insider Michael M. O'Brien details the origins of radical Islamic terrorism now spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. The outgrowth of America's involvement in Iraq, culminating with its March 2003 invasion, is the Islamic State–the most violent...
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF O. HENRY
From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This unique collection of O. Henry's complete poetry has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's works are known for their wit, wordplay, warm...
by O. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings…. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of...
by Flann O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Myles Before Myles is a wonderfully funny selection of writings from the pen of Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, George Knowall). In this fun-filled extravaganza he is, above all, an entertainer, a 'gas man'. Like much of O'Nolan's most entertaining work, the pieces in this did...