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Brian Doyle
Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a…
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The Call is one of the most heartfelt, honest and truly inspiring accounts of the life journey of my teammate, who I am…
In the latest comic novel by Canada’s award-winning author Brian Doyle, Hubbo O'Driscoll is learning to enjoy the pleasures of country life. But when the local covered bridge–home to a…
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance
Place of publication taken from publisher's website.
Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it…
Jacob Israeel de Haan
One of the first novels to openly explore gay love and eroticism, Pathologies is a lost classic that is now translated into English for the first time.
At the start…
The admired Best Catholic Writing series continues with contributions from R. Scott Appleby, Kenneth L. Woodward, and 24 other essayists, poets, novelists, scholars, and journalists. The selections deal with pressing…
The critically acclaimed Best Catholic Writing series continues with contributions from Peggy Noonan, Robert Ellsberg, Pope Benedict XVI, Thomas Lynch, John Allen, and twenty-two other essayists, poets, novelists, scholars, and…
This book tells of his childhood in Argentina, birthplace, parents and family and grandmother Rosa who was a huge influence in his life. His interest in football and tango. His…
In this eclectic and compelling collection of stories Doyle writes about his discovery of the incarnated Spirit of God every time he turns around, often in the most unlikely of…
By the author of Uncle Ronald, winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and Mr. Christie’s Book Award
With a Dickensian cast of characters and an improbable soap opera-style ending, this novel for young readers is delightfully droll, even as it deals with the difficult theme of social…
A Phoenix Honor Award Book
Young Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend’s father was beaten up just because he’s Jewish. Brian Doyle brings his…
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare Selection
Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can’t remember what…
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, and an ALA Notable Books List selection
Martin O'Boy’s life is not…
When Ryan’s dad runs away from home because of the change of life, Ryan is sent to spend the summer with his aunt in Peggy’s Cove.
He goes fishing, almost…
It’s spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Martin has found a true home. He’s also working even though he had to lie about his age to get the job…
A self-described wine doofus spends a year in a small Oregon vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot noir.
Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian DoyleAEs fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices…
Both intimate and irreverent, The Mighty Currawongs taps into the small truths of what makes a life worth living–from the oddly hilarious to the cherished and pure.
Acclaimed, award-winning essayist and novelist Brian Doyle–whose writing, in the words of Mary Oliver, is a gift to us all –presents one hundred new prayers that evoke his deep Catholic…
Brian Doyle brings Robert Louis Stevenson’s untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering…
The untold life of Robert-Louis Stevenson.
In this rich treasury of prose poems on matters theological, spiritual, mystical, and everyday, popular Catholic author Brian Doyle offers readers a lyrical but common-sense take on the ways grace…
A love letter to Chicago and a wry account of a young man’s coming-of-age.
Best-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing…
In this collection of short essays, Brian Doyle presents a compelling account of a life lived playing, watching, loving, and coaching basketball. He recounts his passion for the gyms, the…
A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.
A modern day Siddhartha, Martin Marten awakens readers to the interconnected worlds of one glorious mountain, and the common boundaries of its infinite souls. - Carol Cassella, author of Gemini.
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Tenth-anniversary edition with new introduction and bonus essays. –Cover p. 4
Like Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its…
Examines the heart as a physical organ - how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn’t - and as a metaphor: the seat…
Originally published: Toronto: Groundwood Books, 1995.
An anthology of 36 astonishing personal stories and essays from some of America’s best writers that first appeared in Portland Magazine, the best university magazine in America (Newsweek).
Bestselling novelist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. In these short vignettes, Doyle explores the seethe of life on this startling planet, the astonishing…
A cast of motley characters helps Young Tommy and Baby Bridget discover that there are many ways to love and heal and die.
In this brilliant and poetic novel, BRIAN DOYLE brings us back to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of UP TO LOW and UNCLE RONALD. Mary Ann Alice McCrank…
The critically acclaimed Best Catholic Writing series continues with contributions from Joseph Bottum, Robert Ellsberg, John Garvey, Dawn Eden, and 22 other essayists, poets, scholars, and journalists.
John Perrier
When a young boy boys receives a cricket bat for Christmas he can’t wait to play a game in the back yard. But things don’t go to plan when his…
