Stephen O'Connor – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Stephen O'Connor. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
14 produkter
Orphan Trains
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Häftad, 2004
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these youngsters into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the …
Will My Name be Shouted out?
Reaching Inner City Students through the Power of Writing
Häftad, 1997
316 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A writing instructor at a New York City junior high school traces his attempts to educate youngsters from broken homes and violent neighborhoods. Putting a human face on dire statistics about inner-city schools, Stephen O'Connor describes how his junior high school students--struggling to make …
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson’s life ever.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post Longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the …
Smokestack Lightening Stories
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thirteen stories set in and around the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts, this volume is not in its third printing.
Northwest of Boston
Häftad, 2023
303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In “Northwest of Boston," Stephen O'Connor's characters live the human drama fully in stories that range from the humorous to the poignant. They go to the crossroads to face their demons, come to terms with the fleeting nature of life and love, and find the courage to follow their own compass. For …
Witch at Rivermouth
Häftad, 2015
228 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nestor, why does this creature hate me so much? Why does she hate my blood? Minerva Herrera, a young Colombian woman and devout Catholic, is the love of Nestor McCorleys life. And although twelve years of parochial school have left Nestor with mixed feelings about God and the Church, he and Minerva …
Here Comes Another Lesson
Stories
Häftad, 2010
318 kr
Lägg i varukorg
STEPHEN O’CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY’S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O’Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the …
Here Comes Another Lesson
Stories
E-bok, 2010
199 kr
Lägg i varukorg
STEPHEN O’CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY’S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O’Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the …
This Is No Time to Quit Drinking
Teacher Burnout and the Irish Powers
Häftad, 2020
216 kr
Lägg i varukorg
