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  • The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Story: A Trilogy

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series American Literature
    True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a moment in history when a single, stark photograph—of a US Army Ranger dragged from the wreckage of a Blackhawk helicopter through the streets of Mogadishu—altered the course of global events. In a story ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates.The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Clearing Hurdles

    The Quest to Be The World's Greatest Athlete

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. As an orphan who is never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous advertising campaign, as the athlete of maybe the most publicized and shocking failure in the history of sports, and as a man who persevered through it all to dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Stolen Horses

    by Dan O’Brien ...
    Series series Flyover Fiction
    Honor Book, 2011 Nebraska Book Awards, Fiction CategoryForeword Reviews, 2011 Book of the Year, Silver Award, General FictionMcDermot, Nebraska, is a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley—just the place for people seeking refuge from their hectic city lives. It is also just the place for those who have made their homes on this haunting prairie since the late ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Wild Idea

    Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land

    by Dan O’Brien ...
    For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Buffalo for the Broken Heart

    Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden balls of wool,” O’Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Story that Happens

    On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens—first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy—offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fine Meshwork

    Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien, and Jewish-Irish Literature

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hume on Testimony

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
    This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on miracles in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. O’Brien, though, looks wider than the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Contract Surgeon

    A Novel

    by Dan O’Brien ...
    Winner of the Western Heritage Award, this beautifully crafted historical novel from one of the West’s most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillycuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical career and newly married wife to serve in the army during the Great Sioux War, and the fearsome chief Crazy Horse. When Crazy Horse finally agrees to ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Our Cancers

    Poems

    by Dan O'Brien ...
    Poet and playwright Dan O’Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11—an event that caused their downtown apartment to become “suffused with the World Trade Center’s carcinogenic dust”—Dan O’Brien’s wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife’s final ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD