Bøger af Sean O'Neil

Brian O'Malley thought he had finally shaken off the pains of his youth - a youth stolen by his alcoholic father. He had found the island of his own family dreams with Parminder, a Punjabi Sikh woman who also faced her own childhood challenges in Northern India. Together in Boston, they face the harsh reality of raising a mixed family in a changing America complete with racism, bigotry and terrorism. To make matters worse, Brian faces the ultimate challenge of not allowing alcoholism and depression to condemn he and his children to the same life he endured. This is a story of the realities of life's challenges, and finding happiness despite the odds and world around you.Brian's Stolen Dream is the first of three books that tell the multi-generational story of the O'Malley family. The books speak of challenges and hardships and the triumph of the human heart. Racial integration is a core theme throughout as is spiritualism and Indian mysticism. Book two is called Sahara's Miracle and book three is called Parminder's Legacy.

Sahara on the heels of finally gaining justice for her father's death loses her mother to a rare disease borne from her childhood homeland. She and her brother Dylan do what is expected of them and return her ashes to the Punjab. While there, they once again face the threat of the IRA who are still looking for retribution for their losses in Boston at the hands of ADA Sahara O'Malley.In India, they both find a connection to their mother's heritage and find they too have a cultural and spiritual link to the homeland. The story goes full circle in this epic conclusion.Enjoy the twist of turns of a great romantic thriller that ultimately links a new world to an old one and brings to a close a fascinating trilogy.

Where does it start? A little want or need as a child that slowly grows into desire. We are all human and we all face the reality of the imperfection of being.Desire comes in many forms. For some, it's narcotics, an artificial high while fully knowing that the high will bring an equivalent low. That low conveniently providing the need for the next high.For some it's food. While they are fully aware that every bite takes them closer to their end, they are compelled, driven for the next mouthful.For others, it's games of chance. They find their fix in the cards or the roulette wheel. The thrill of the game. The challenge of all or nothing only to find that the house always wins.Then there are those who find sex. Not in its basic, natural form but in a perverse way that is only satisfied in its most extreme manner.Ultimately most people find a way to manage their desires as they grow. They recognize the demon within them; battle it and contain it as best they can. Then there are those that are simply unable to manage it and thus become victims of their demons.These demons lurk constantly just below the surface, even for those who are able to contain them. What would it take for them to grab control?

All children dream of magical and mystical places. It's where they escape when they need to get away. For some children, life simply becomes too much at times and they need a private place to hope and dream. In some ways, it could be considered both a gift and a curse as they were born with minds that simply must explore. This exploring often means leveraging every corner of their imagination; driven by their thoughts, but equally so by the stories told by those around them. In most cases, these imaginary places exist only in the minds of the children, their place safely away from the real world. But every so often one of these mysterious places becomes just a little too real and someone experiences a once of a lifetime adventure.Thanks to an unusual purchase by his grandfather, it was to be the case for our young hero Ethan.

Blood and belonging are as old as the human species itself. The words themselves bring out a variety of emotions spanning the full human genome. In James's Game, James takes on the concept by looking at the role of success in life and the importance of being born into the right family genetics as opposed to being put through the right system.The book also looks at the effects of personal cultural connections and an individual's family history. Even today, as we look around the world, we still see caste or class systems in various parts of the world. Even where it isn't a formal structure, in many cases, it still exists informally. While written or unwritten, the end result is the grouping of humans simply by birthplace and family lineage.The story in James's Game uses the old British system of elite families as the backdrop and is seen through the eyes of three adopted children, one from Ireland, one from Africa, and one from China. It speaks to the mistaken value, in my opinion, of success and prestige at the expense of life's more important values. In James's case, because of his background, he desperately needs to prove the British nobility wrong and that any child, put through the right system, can succeed as well as any of those children from the British elites that he so despises. Welcome to James's Game.

Three thrilling urban legends from across the for great Canadian landscape.THE FOGO ISLAND BLIND SPOT: Four McGill university students stumble into terror and a history of hatred between the Irish and the British that goes back hundreds of years when they unwittingly journey to Fogo Island Newfoundland to research a famous Canadian urban legend as part of their university history program. THE MANITOBA MINING MIST: With the help of a crooked politician, an unscrupulous mining company sets up camp in a small Manitoba town and begin digging in an Indian burial ground. Ultimately, they dig in the wrong spot and a mine collapse takes the lives of many poor miners and releases a mist, a deadly mist. With the help of an Indian high priest the town folks manage to close the mine and the mist, staving off further disaster.Seventy Five years later, a group of university students, having learned about the story through a course on Canadian Urban Legends reopens the mine and worse, reopens the horror.THE BC NIGHT TRAIN: A visiting Professor, from Hong Kong is in BC to audit a new course being offered by a number of Canadian University on Urban Legends. While auditing the course, at UBC, he is strangely taken by an urban legend call the BC Night Train and as the class takes on overnight ride on historic train, he find himself suddenly engulfed in what seems to be a reoccurrence of the horrors of the past

Following the tragic death of Brian at the hands of the IRA, the O'Malley family is forced to come together. As Parminder finds her strength waning due to the loss of her love and the impact of a hidden illness, her daughter Sahara steps up and becomes the glue to bond the family in difficult and risky times with the IRA still in the picture.The family moves to a new neighborhood within Boston in an effort to get away from the false allegations of corruption laid against their father after his death. They start over and through the grace of God find a degree of happiness. Sahara is so shaken by the loss of her father, that she effectively dedicates fifteen years of her life to seeking justice for him. She puts herself through Harvard Law and then manages to catch on with the Massachusetts Districts Attorney's office. Her presence ultimately helps the office reopen a cold case, her father's. She and the office go head to head with a corrupt police group and the IRA. Sahara battles to clear their father's name. This is the second book in the O'Malley Family Trilogy.

Brian O'Malley thought he had finally shaken off the pains of his youth - a youth stolen by his alcoholic father. He had found the island of his own family dreams with Parminder, a Punjabi Sikh woman who also faced her own childhood challenges in Northern India. Together in Boston, they face the harsh reality of raising a mixed family in a changing America complete with racism, bigotry, and terrorism. To make matters worse, Brian faces the ultimate challenge of not allowing alcoholism and depression to condemn him and his children to the same life he endured. This is a story of the realities of life's challenges and finding happiness despite the odds and the world around you. Brian's Stolen Dream is the first of three books that tell the multi-generational story of the O'Malley family. The books speak of challenges and hardships and the triumph of the human heart. Racial integration is a core theme throughout as is spiritualism and Indian mysticism. Book two is called Sahara's Miracle and book three is Parminder's Legacy.

One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results—and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management authors Sean O'Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy leadership training but by using the skills that got them promoted in the first place.Forget kumbayas or one-minute managing. The best people managers know that approaches that work great with one employee will be lost on the next. With the same irreverent and straightforward style they use in their management training workshops, O'Neil and Kulisek describe the 16 basic worker types you must learn to recognize, from The Badass to The Burnout, and how to customize your leadership style for each type.The authors encourage the readers to take pieces of what works from each of the sections and they also remind them to follow the gut instinct that got them to their new management position in the first place. Written in short, easily digestible sections, and both entertaining and insightful throughout, Bare Knuckle People Management is perfect for any manager pressed for time and in need of some straightforward advice.