Books by Mike O'Connor and Complete Book Reviews
Mike O'Connor, Author, Margaret Webb, With, Timothy Archer, With Csbs $9.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-895837-26-1
From Canada comes a lively but ultimately slim sampling of short stories and poems by four gay and lesbian writers of coffeehouse and 'zine fame. Sonja Mills's ``Thicker Skin in Thirty Minutes'' includes a short, beguiling prose piece in the form of
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Mike O'Connor, Author, Steven R. Johnson, Author, Steve Johnson, Joint Author Wisdom Publications (MA) $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-86171-309-7
Photographer Stephen Johnson and poet-translator Mike O'Connor team up to provide a beautiful marriage of word and image in Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem. The book explores the hermit-sage tradition of China,
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Mike O'Connor, Author . Random $24.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-375-50479-2
In this deeply personal account, veteran journalist O’Connor’s decides to explore the mysteries of his childhood: “In September 1998, a year after our mother died, I finally found the courage to look inside my father’s...
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Mike O'Connor, Author, Olivia Miller, Editor, Michael Chesworth, Illustrator . Beacon $9.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8574-5
Cape Codder
columnist O'Connor ("Ask the Bird Folks") illuminates his intricate, arcane area of expertise through jovial insider explanations that will enlighten as well as entertain ornithiphiles, average backyard birdwatchers and even
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Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?
More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions About Birds and Birding
Mike O’Connor. Beacon, $14 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1253-6
O’Connor (Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches? And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask), owner of the Birdwatcher’s General Store in Cape Cod, Mass., offers a second q&a compilation from his weekly column, Ask the Bird Folks, which appears
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