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September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life. "How I Became a Human Being" is Mark O Brien s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from t...

Mark O'Brien became one of Derby County's youngest ever footballers when his life was turned upside down. Following heart surgery, Mark defied a bleak prognosis to enjoy a successful career, with Derby and Newport County.

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, Mark L. O'Brien examines the profound consequences of the moment that forever changed his life and cut short the life of the woman he loved while delivering a searing indictment of America's criminal justice and addiction treatment systems. Mark L. O'Brien has lived through a tragedy and made something beautiful of it. He has gathered the pieces of his shattered life, and from them built this unforgettab...

A popular expression says, "Everybody's got a story.'" I'm luckier than most. I have many. This is a collection of some of them. It's necessarily incomplete because I'm still on the planet. As long as that remains true, I'll always have more stories. I hope you enjoy these. Mark Obrien, Author

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Everywhere we look, the unexpected waits to delight, challenge or even destroy us. Even a cursory exposure to the life of letters truly helps us order our experience of the world. It is the stock and trade of education as is little else. Doctor O'Brien has been fortunate enough to have wrung some happy meaning from the most prosaic of circumstance. Alexander Pope was wrong: a little bit of learning may be a dangerous thing: but it is a beginning.

This book examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland, specifically the central role played by print and broadcast media in communicating political, cultural and social differences and similarities between the two islands.

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I met "St. Louie Louie" Roberts in 1971 at a small St. Louis pool room, Arway Billiards, and he quickly became my idol. Louie went on to become one of the most feared, charismatic pool players of all time. For two decades, Louie was referred to as the greatest shot maker on the planet. While his stories and antics are endless, you will find dozens of his escapades in this first-ever dedicated book about Francis Louis Roberts. Along with many o...

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This children's book, a follow-up to the 2012 original and written in verse, tells the story of Martin the Marlin and his friend, Steven. One day while swimming together, they come upon Daphne the Dolphin, who's helplessly tangled in a rope from a fishing net. Martin and Steven work together to set Daphne free and make a new friend in the process. The book is appropriate for children of all ages, whether having it read to them by an adult or r...

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