Dan O'Brien

• Nov-2020
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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 s...

• Jul-2019
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Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama

As Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his ...

• Jul-2016
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2.3.5.7.11.13. A war brews as a galaxy struggles to maintain a peace treaty signed in haste. The Commonwealth boasts sprawling cities built upon slums. The Sovereignty has placed the yoke of industry upon its citizens. Sixteen men and women are conne...

• Apr-2015
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A frightening new case. A mysterious journal. The beginning of the end. Lauren Westlake has left behind the horrors of northern Minnesota to investigate a strange package with a cryptic return address. Crossing the country to the city by the bay, Lau...

• Sep-2014
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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 grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains ...

• Feb-2014
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You're never too old to have one more adventure Brought to life by Steve Ferchaud's vibrant drawings, this story for all ages by Dan O'Brien lets us know that it is never too late to have one more adventure....

• Jan-2014
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Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apa...

• Nov-2013
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A collection of short fiction. Mondays with Mephistopheles: 9 am -- -- Rhys: Abraham Rogers has an unusual psychotherapy practice: monsters. This first installment is a session with Rhys, the IT vampire who can't quite connect with the modern world ...

• Oct-2013
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The next installment in the B-Sides series follows a father and son living out a quiet life in northern Arizona. A strange occurrence at the border, and a series of events that turns the world upside down, plunges society into a spiral from which it ...

• Nov-2012
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STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION Cerulean Dreams: Orion, the last city of men. Deep within the desert, a secret lay waiting. Young women found dead in the street. A corporation that controls the sleep of a populace that never sees the light of day...

• Sep-2012
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Set against the backdrop of the tundra and a world desperate for hope, the journey of a young man, E'Malkai, will come to define a realm that has been broken by an evil that does not sleep. A bitter betrayal, and the inception of a war that will cons...

• May-2012
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The world as we knew it had ended. Deep in the mountains of the west coast, six men survived. In the town of River's Bend, these six friends continued on with their lives as zombies inherited the Earth. As they navigated the world that had been left ...

• May-2012
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A plague has covered the land, a single word on the lips of the frightened masses: the Widow. Washing a wave of terror over the countryside and then disappearing like a thief in the night, the Widow holds a kingdom in the palm of her hand. The eyes o...

• Apr-2012
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Re-released for its 10th anniversary, Dan O'Brien presents the first novel in a sweeping series that will subsume all categories of genre fiction before it draws to a close. Reminiscent of the crusading stories of the past, Deviance of Time introduce...

• Dec-2011
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A predator stalks a cold northern Minnesotan town. There is talk of wolves walking on two legs and attacking people in the deep woods. Lauren Westlake, resourceful and determined F.B.I Agent, has found a connection between the strange murders in the ...

• Dec-2011
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Orion, the last city of men. Deep within the desert, a secret lay waiting. Young women found dead in the street. A corporation that controls the sleep of a populace that never sees the light of day. Alexander Marlowe seeks to unravel the mysteries of...

• Dec-2011
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The Frozen Man. The Translucent Man. The Burning Man. The Wicker Man. The guide known only as the Crossroads, together these are the signposts and totems of the world that the being called the Lonely inhabits. Seeking out the meaning of his journey, ...

• Sep-2010
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McDermot, 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...

• Apr-2010
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Hanz Kreiger is not even fifteen years old, and death surrounds him at the Manor House at which he works as an indentured servant in Amsterdam. The maid, two stable boys, an ambassador to the court, and the cook have all just died.

It's the end of...

• Jan-2006
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A healer with a conscience and a mission, Valentine McGillycuddy has lived among the Lakota Sioux -- mending their wounds, delivering their children -- and had once called the great warrior chief Crazy Horse "friend." Now, with his frail, beautiful w...

• Nov-1999
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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 car...

• May-1996
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Once a great falconer and environmentalist, Malone has entered middle age a broken man, devoid of the passion and promise of his youth. And now the developers are threatening to build condominiums on his beloved Brendan prairie....

• Sep-1992
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When a mining company discovers gold near the Badlands, South Dakota bank president Larry Sorenson moves to secure ownership of four cattle ranches that control access to the gold, beginning a feud between ranchers and developers...

• Feb-1990
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• May-1988
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The lives of three rugged individualist--Tom McVay, Bill Egan, and Katie Running--become dramatically intertwined as events collide in this novel of murder and revenge set in the Black Hills of South Dakota...