Sean O'Brien

• Oct-2025
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First Daughters Marissa and Clara journey back to FDR's presidency to solve a mystery at the heart of Great Depression -- era Washington, DC, in this new entry in the White House Clubhouse series.White House kids Clara and Marissa Suarez find themsel...

• Oct-2024
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A swashbuckling, seafaring, time-traveling adventure takes First Daughters Marissa and Clara back to the birth of the nation in this new entry in the White House Clubhouse series.When the clubhouse fills with smoke, Marissa and Clara Suarez escape th...

• Aug-2024
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In a universe where hope dims like a dying star, one man's loss becomes his ultimate quest for redemption.Asteroid belt miner Collier South has hit the nadir of existence. Once a beacon of idealism in the cold, unforgiving expanse of space, he's lost...

• Oct-2023
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From a former White House speechwriter: a middle grade series following two First Daughters who team up with historical presidential children to save the nation.Marissa and Clara's mom is the newly elected president of the United States, and they hav...

• Aug-2019
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En route to colonize the extrasolar planet Tau Ceti III... Donn Cardenio, damaged veteran of Earth's disastrous first interstellar war, and two hundred fellow Caretakers are charged with caring for a quarter million embryos en route to colonize the ...

• May-2018
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Sheltering from an air raid in an empty underground station, a young woman encounters a strangely out-of-place vessel passing along the platform...

A librarian cataloguing the manuscripts of a recently deceased horror writer notices one p...

• Oct-2017
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• Oct-2016
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Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor public school steeped in military tradition, he also reveals how, forty years ago, a secret conflict ...

• Feb-2016
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Collier South has been belt mining his entire life. He's watched the small independents around him get swallowed up by the bigger corporations, forced out of their livelihoods by corporate creep. But no matter his mounting debt load, he isn't about t...

• Mar-2015
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Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sor...

• Oct-2013
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Narrated in the first person, 'And Lead Us Not...' is a powerful and erotic human drama, intimately told. Callum has a comfortable life with his partner Julia and their small group of professional friends in suburban South Manchester, 'no kids' baby ...

• Dec-2012
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Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before. She has spent her life preparing for planetfall on Epsilon Eridani III, taking care of the growing number of victims of int...

• Oct-2011
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November is Sean O'Brien's first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and th...

• Mar-2011
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In these twelve short stories by science fiction writer Sean O'Brien, you'll find a character trying to find the meaning of his own life through an alien artifact called the Godbox; a brainy high school geek with an unusual football ability; an inter...

• Aug-2010
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ...

• Sep-2009
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Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers, and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of this sinister novel. Idlers and idolizers alike can be referenced, in body or in text,...

• Aug-2009
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The seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell-bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be d...

• Sep-2008
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With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a...

• Aug-2006
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• May-2004
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At the Terran base on the conquered planet of the Mnemosyneans, Tyr Yllen is unique. The ultramodern techniques Earth teachers used with the students on the base are of no use with someone like Tyr. But when Horace Mann arrives all the way from Earth...

While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O'Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is so...