Bøger af Maureen O'Brien

Six month old Bogey feels unwanted and unloved when he finds himself living at the local Humane Society. His first owners describe him as untrainable and stupid. He knows it's not true. He's convinced if he can just find the right family... Narrated by Bogey, "Waggin' Tales: Bogey's Memoir" is a heartwarming, delightful, and often humorous account of his second chance with his forever family. This true story is sure to tickle the hearts of all dog lovers.

When you hit rock bottom, it isn't rainbows and butterflies that you need--it's the words to express your deepest emotions without being judged for them. In this spiritual memoir, author Maureen O'Brien finds her words in the psalms. As a cancer survivor and heartbroken divorcee, O'Brien made a seemingly simple commitment to praying one psalm a day, no matter how uninspired she felt. And as she returned to the ancient poems day after day, she discovered something surprising: while the psalms did give her comfort, solace, and hope, they also gave her permission to rage, cry, and grieve. And what she found was that her most honest emotions pulled her nearer to God, not further away. This, O'Brien writes, is the gift of the psalms. At once relatable and inspiring, What Was Lost stands like a lighthouse on a stormy night, offering the reader a clear path to be led home.

Now in a three-part edition that incorporates the latest research on pediatric brain development, Watch Me Grow: I'm One-Two-Three helps parents in their decision-making by explaining how children experience the world during the wondrous toddler years. In addition to offering the most current research on age-appropriate behavior and sharing parenting stories, this book also gives sound advice from an expert on child development. Using wisdom and humor, Dr. O'Brien gives parents and childcare providers a deeper understanding of the hearts and minds of their growing one-, two-, and three-year-old children.

And the Children Watched is written as a children's book, but it is not a book strictly for children. The book is a reflection of events that happened in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The world shifted. Some would say, it went upside down. It was a time of the Great Pause; a time of significant disruption. Yet good things happened. There was a slowing to the pace of our lives, a return to family. We found new ways of communicating through technology (ZOOM calls) in our eagerness to stay connected in this time of disconnection. There were also high levels of emotion that sometimes were hard to witness. And all the while, the children watched.