O Donnell: 351 books
Deadly Force
How a Badge Became a License to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case...
Mortal Blessings
A Sacramental Farewell
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Family Life Category (First Place) In this lyrical adieu to her mother, renowned Catholic essayist, poet, and professor Angela O'Donnell explores how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother's final days--bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair--became...
by Tara O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
While recovering from her encounter with super villain Kingston Cobre,rest is the last thing that Penny Slater is getting.
Between angry phone calls from her stepmother and an unexpected interrogation,our would be heroine is ready to check out of the hospital in more ways than one.
A...
Latent Destinies
Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates,...
by Mary O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Photojournalist Hanna Troy is killing time on a summer walkabout in the city. As the afternoon progresses, her reflections unravel a raw, sometimes sensuous story of darkness and light. It explores a failing relationship, the anguish of a professional trying to become a mother and the complexities...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by Pacho O'Donnell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2012
La versión popular de la Revolución de Mayo.
Pacho O'Donnell nos devuelve la real dimensión histórica de Artigas y recupera la plena vigencia de su pensamiento, en tiempos en que la unidad latinoamericana es más que una esperanza. El doloroso exilio del caudillo rioplatense parece, por...
The Irish Brotherhood
John F. Kennedy, His Inner Circle and the Improbable Rise to the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at JFK’s team: “Lively . . . fast-paced anecdotes . . . insights into presocial media mid-twentieth-century politics” (Library Journal).
The Irish Brotherhood is the history of Jack Kennedy’s original political inner circle. Led by Bobby Kennedy, Kenny O’Donnell,...
by Callum O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Sturgeon General is an anthology of comedic writing, compiling short works of fiction and non-fiction and other miscellany for the hilarious good of all. Each issue features the work of a single comedy writer.
Callum O'Donnell writes smart, cynical stories that reflect the sorry state of...
by Pacho O'Donnell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Pacho O'Donnell nos introduce en las vidas de los hombres y las mujeres que lucharon a favor de los sectores populares, contra el poder de turno, y que la historia oficial ha ocultado bajo un manto de silencio.
En las páginas de Los héroes malditos desfilan los pueblos originarios y sus caciques,...
by Pacho O'Donnell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Una investigación extensa para abordar el pasado argentino.
Pacho O'Donnell opone al relato histórico escrito por la oligarquía porteñista vencedora en las guerras civiles decimonónicas, centralista y europeizante, una visión distinta, producto de una investigación extensa y cuidadosa...
Pagans
The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional” religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine.
Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that...
The Shortest Book Ever on Saving for Retirement
How to Make Every Dollar Count in any Financial Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Most books on this subject try to scare (or perhaps bore) you into submission. The Shortest Book Ever on Saving for Retirement is different. It’s short, comprehensive, and most importantly of all—it’s understandable. By sticking to the bare minimum on what you really need to know about investing...
The Unknowns
The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions...