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  • Bearfish

    by John O'Brien ...
    In January 1911, President Taft signed The Useful Animals Appropriation Act, and within months, the first hippopotomi arrived on the Calcasieu River.In real life, none of this happened. But in Bearfish, John O'Brien offers a deep, amusing and often moving picture of an America forever altered by the introduction of one fateful animal that Americans chose to call the bearfish. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literature Incorporated

    The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650–1850

    by John O'Brien ...
    Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'Brien explores how this relationship played out in economics and literature, two fields that gained prominence in the same era.Examining British and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church

    by John O'Brien ...
    Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office. O'Brien shows that claims by Roman dicasteries for an unbroken chain of authoritative tradition on the non-ordainability of women--a novel rather than traditional argument--are not historically supported. In the primitive Church, with the offices of deacon, presbyter, and bishop in process of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stripper Lessons

    by John O'Brien ...
    From the author of Leaving Las Vegas, "a sensitive and understated novel" about a lonely law clerk yearning for human connection ( Booklist).Here is the simple life of Carroll, a middle-aged, unmarried, friendless man whose only joy is watching beautiful women dance. Terribly shy and unable to socialize with the people around him, Carroll's fascination with the women at his favorite strip club, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oak Island Unearthed!

    a miner's investigation into the enigma of Oak Island, the Mesoamericans, and the treasures buried therein

    by John O. O'Brien ...
    Oak Island Unearthed! --book description- back cover.John O’Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary’s University professor debated, for an entire winter, the merits of existing theories of Oak Island and the mysterious lost treasures of the world.After fifty-five years of research and puzzling over this mystery ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaving Las Vegas

    by John O'Brien ...
    This "brutal and unflinching" novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City).John O'Brien's debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oak Island Unearthed!

    Third Canadian Edition (2017)

    by John O. O'Brien, Francis Mitchell, editor ...
    Oak Island Unearthed! Third Canadian Edition by John O. O’BrienThis is a story of the world’s oldest continuous mystery about Oak Island - of supposed treasure left before 1795 by Spanish, French or British pirates, or the Knight’s Templars/Holy Grail, Christopher Columbus, returning British armies after the American War of Independence and a host of other speculations ... all that makes for a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Assault on Tony's

    by John O'Brien ...
    As a riot rages outside a bar, patrons barricaded inside face their own battle in a "brilliant and twisted" novel by the author of Leaving Las Vegas ( The Kansas City Star).Completed posthumously, The Assault on Tony's is an unapologetic, unsentimental, and at times exuberant examination of the joys and sorrows of intoxication, written with the same unflinching eye and grim wit that made John O ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hanly: A Brief History of the Noble Name (At Home and Abroad)

    by Gearoid O'Brien, John Hanly ...
    The Hanly clan originated in Co Roscommon, in the heart of Ireland and spread, initially, throughout Ireland. The River Shannon was used as an artery of communication to reach Limerick and Cork.This first published history of the clan traces the story, from entries in the ancient annals to the present day. There are also helpful details on how to trace your Hanly ancestors.A book that will also ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Around the Boree Log and Other Verses

    by John O'Brien ...
    “Around the Boree Log and Other Verses” is a wonderful collection of poems by Australian Poet Patrick Hartigan. This work celebrates the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk that the author ministered when he was a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera. Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878 – 1952) was an Australian Poet and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jung's Word Association Experiment

    Manual for Training and Practice

    by John O'Brien, Nada O'Brien ...
    This manual is the long-awaited definitive and essential guide to training, research and practice of Jung’s Word Association Experiment, both in clinical practice and beyond the consulting room.Carefully redesigned by training analysts, examiners, and researchers at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich in consultation with a multi-disciplinary group of international authorities, this manual will enable ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Opportunities Beyond Carbon

    Looking Forward to a Sustainable World

    by John O'Brien ...
    Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'. It maps the many opportunities for communities large and small, local and international, making the transition to a low carbon economy. John O'Brien has compiled essays by key politicians, investors, business people, activists and academics on how to make the most of the current predicament. This ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD