John O'Brien, Author, Maureen O'Brien, Author Grove Press $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8021-3507-0
When the author of Leaving Las Vegas died in 1994, he left three books in various stages of completion. One, The Assault on Tony's, was published last year. In this second novel, O'Brien gives us another portrait of a loner, essentially a man with...
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Maureen O'Brien, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-31600-6
Death threats prompt homebody Det. John Bright and girlfriend Jude to leave England for the south of France, where they find good food and pleasant weather. But their holiday sours after Jude disappears and Bright gets arrested for the murder of...
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Maureen O'Brien, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-312-03306-4
A thin plot, plodding narrative and unlikable characters are serious drawbacks to this debut. The corpse of the lovely and critically acclaimed English actress, Liza Drew, is found by her best friend and fellow thespian, Millie Hale. The...
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Maureen O'Brien, Author, Sherill Tippins, With with Sherill Tippins. Quill $18.95 (736p) ISBN 978-0-06-050787-9
O'Brien, formerly director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston's Children's Hospital, and Tippins, a writer in the child development field, have reprinted their first two volumes (Watch Me Grow: I'm One; Watch Me Grow, I'
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Maureen O'Brien, Author . Harcourt $24 (276p) ISBN 978-0-15-101398-2
Among the recent spate of adoption memoirs, the voices of birth mothers have been woefully underrepresented. O'Brien covers the territory in her debut novel spanning nearly 20 years, beginning in 1980—less than a decade after the...
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Maureen O'Brien, Author, Sherill Tippins, Joint Author, Elise Sinagra Donoghue, Photographer with Sherill Tippins. Morrow $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-16879-7
O'Brien, a pediatric research associate at Harvard Medical School, and her coauthor Tippins (Watch Me Grow: I'm One) continue their exploration of early childhood development in this new volume. Pointing out that problems arising after the...
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