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David Rory O’Neill’s The Prairie Companions is a beautiful, heartfelt, and breathtaking work of historical fiction, transporting readers to the Canadian wilds in the early years of the twentieth century. A stunning evocation of a unique time and place—and a powerfully moving story of courage,...

A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work. The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....

A sad story written by O'Brien on an alchemist, his daughter and a doctor who gets caught up with them. Here O'Brien style is appealing but at the same time his vocabulary is simple and accessible to everyone....

"Nas primeiras horas da manhã de 24 de agosto de 1970, uma segunda-feira, Jimi Hendrix saiu dos estúdios Electric Lady, no Village, depois de uma noite exaustiva de gravações e reparos numa das últimas canções que deixaria para o futuro...". Assim começa Um mistério nos Electric...

We are told today by the scientific community that all humans living today are related directly from a common ancestor who emerged from Africa around 70,000 years ago. Perhaps this is true, but I doubt it. I believe the evidence suggests there are three human races. Read on to find out why...

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...

Imagine we have a time machine and we can look back at the past. Imagine we can see what really happened in the past. This short story looks at the period at the dawn of modern humanity, maybe this is how it really happened. Join us for this short look at human history, 75,000-30,000 years before the present.

How a typical Irish emigrant rose to a position of influence at the highest levels of US and Irish politics. A remarkable firsthand account of an Irish emigrant who began as a part-time footballer and house-painter and became a journalist, author, founder and publisher of two newspapers, a...

Available for the first time in a single volume, this new edition features two of Nancy O’Hara’s bestselling books, revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Going beyond daily meditation, Find a Quiet Corner teaches us effective ways to release stress, boost energy, tap into...

After seeing, reading, and hearing lots of bad advice about building a cleaning business, I decided to write advice that I know to be true. I know it’s true because these are some of the steps that I used when I grew my own successful cleaning company. Hi, I'm Susan O'Grann, author, and creator...

‘I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths.’ Richard O’Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison....

On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police...

The Cemetery Dance Select series invites some of our favorite authors to spotlight a sampling of their own short fiction: award-winners, stories they consider their best or that had the most impact on their career—or neglected favorites they feel deserve a second look.   Long-time...

Satirist Titus O’Reily looks back at the 2014 AFL Premiership Season and even occasionally focusses on the football itself. Reviewing every match played and containing hundreds of articles covering the 2014 AFL season, this almanac brings together Titus’s pieces from the Herald Sun, Inside Football...