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A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, insecure boy with a vibrant imagination found an unlikely family in the company of monks at Holy Trinity Abbey, in the mountains of rural Latter-day Saint Utah. Struggling with his parents' recent divorce, Michael O'Brien discovered a community filled with warmth, humor, idiosyncrasies, and most of all,...

This is the story of a man who researched his family tree only to find it had been growing in a forest full of unusual life.His family began arriving in Sydney, Australia in 1839, whether by choice or by the order of an overworked judge. Either way, they left their old ways (and sometimes, spouses) behind and began a new life (sometimes with new spouses).While the O'Brien and Kingdom families had their share of interesting people, so did life ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Hercules Mulligan was a master spy who answered to George Washington, being instrumental to saving the revolutionary leader from capture during the War of Independence.The young Mulligan grew up at a time when agitation over Britain's taxation of the American colonies was rising, born in Ireland, he moved to the colonies at the age of six, and considered himself not merely a colonist, but a patriot of the impending nation. Able with dialogue a...

The idea of the "South" has its roots in Romanticism and American culture of the nineteenth century. This study by Michael O'Brien analyzes how the idea of a unique Southern consciousness endured into the twentieth century and how it affected the lives of prominent white Southern intellectuals. Individual chapters treat Howard Odum, John Donald Wade, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Frank Owsley, and Donald Davidson. The chapters trace each man'...

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Der karmelitische Mönch Pater Elijah, Überlebender des Warschauer Ghettos, wird vom Papst mit einer geheimen Mission beauftragt: Er soll den "Präsidenten", der im Begriff ist, zum Weltherrscher aufzusteigen an seine Seele erinnern ê ein abenteuerliches Unterfangen, das dem Leser ebenso Einblick gibt in die Kämpfe hinter den Mauern des Vatikans wie in die Kämpfe in der menschlichen Seele. Gefesselt von der Spannung der Handlung, bemerkt der Les...

Ein neuer Totalitarismus, der die Komfortzone für Christen immer weiter schwindenlässt, durchdringt unsere Gesellschaft und bereitet einem säkularen Messias den Weg. Michael O'Brien, der Verfasser des Bestseller-Romans "Father Elijah", ist ein "whistleblower", der die Christen auffordert, die biblischen Warnungen vor dem Antichrist ebenso ernst zu nehmen wie die Botschaft der Hoffnung."Christen sind die wahren Realisten. Sie können der Wirklic...

Providing the most current information on injuries to the head and neck sustained by young athletes, this practical text presents a thorough review of the complex and emerging issues for youths and adolescents involved in contact/collision sports. While concussions are among the most common injuries, fractures of the skull and facial bones and structural brain injuries can be serious and are discussed in chapters of their own, as are stingers ...

Roman's 3rd poetry collective, and 4th overall release zeroes in on the life struggles that make us move quickly over the terrain of life. We all experience it, we all go through it, and as the title aptly summarizes, when life is coals you have no choice but to move quickly.

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