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Story, Soul and Substance
In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers “resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusia...
Centered on the theme of cherishing the past, Covered Bridge pits earnest Hubbo O'Driscoll against two determined, cynical land developers. Hubbo is b...
In 1945 in Ottawa's Lowertown, Tommy, also known as "The Shadow," and two of his friends, one French Canadian, one Irish, try to find out who attacked...
First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy....
Boy O’Boy Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, i...
Notes on Wonder
From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments ...
Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance
Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at ...
Originally published: Toronto: Groundwood Books, 1995....
Young Martin O'Boy describes life in Ottawa as World War II ends while telling of his dealings with the less than perfect adults around him, especiall...
Brian Doyle knows where to find many of the members of his demographic cohort — that 1929-to-1939-born generation of which Doyle, who drew his first...
Songs of Praise in Prose
Is Brian Doyle the most passionate Catholic storyteller in America? Here is new evidence that he is. In this brand new compilation of some of his best...
"Versions of these articles were published previously..."--T.p. verso....
Revelations & Epiphanies
In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Ma...
A Novel
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 wi...
In the sequel to the award-winning Boy O'Boy, it's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Martin O'Boy has finally found a true home with Grampa Rip. ...
Since Spud's father has died life has become less than simple. His girlfriend's mother doesn't like him, his boss thinks he has the makings of a busin...
Up to Low Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem....
A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be....
& Other Stories
A collection of humorous short stories from the award-winning author of The Plover and Mink River. Welcome to the peculiar, headlong world of Brian Do...
This lyrical tale of a young man’s first foray into adulthood offers “a moving ode to the city of Chicago and the singular nature of its people”...
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that ...
When a new project is presented to dam up the Gatineau River, Mary Ann Alice McCrank and her teacher, Patchy Drizzle, know that many fossils and rocks...
In 1895, to escape his violent father, Mickey is sent to stay with his Uncle Ronald and his twin aunts in the hills north of Ottawa and learns to feel...
WINNER OF THE LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Dave is fourteen years old, eager, ...
Shortly after World War II, Hubbo O'Driscoll lives in a shelter outside Ottawa with a distant relative who works as a cleaning woman at his school, tr...
When Ryan's father leaves the family during a midlife crisis, his mother sends him to spend the summer with his aunt in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, whe...
Spud Sweetgrass Spud gets angry when he sees Dumper Stubbs, a creepy delivery man, dumping oil into a storm drain and causing terrible pollution in th...
And Other Headlong Epiphanies
Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in. -- Leonard Cohen, Anthem. In this rich treasury of prose...
Building Your Church Based Ministry to Men
Engage answers the age-old questions: What is it Men are looking for and Need in a Church? and How do I build this Ministry? Engaging men to lead at t...
100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary
Brian Doyle was a one-of-a-kind author who wrote one-of-a-kind prayers about everyday subjects that help readers change the way they see the world. Pr...
A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
"An affectionate homage...a loving reconstruction of an era of storytelling now lost." —The New York Times "[A] triumph...If a writer is going to pu...
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Brief headlong essays about books & writers & reading & readers
If you love to read, or write, or both, you’ll appreciate Brain Doyle—passionate observer of and commentator on all things written. In this ultima...
“Brian Doyle is an extraordinary writer whose tales will endure.” —Cynthia Ozick, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Quarrel a...
World-Beater
Soccer is the worlds most popular sport, and the greatest player of the current generation has been the other-worldly Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal....
A Study of the Use, Function, and Significance of Metaphors in Isaiah 24-27
The analysis of metaphors constitutes an ideal point of entry into the exegesis of Biblical Hebrew poetic texts because it forces the exegete to exami...
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Brian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gra...
What do you do when your dad takes off and your mom ships you off to Peggy's Cove for the sumemr? Well, for starters, you stare at the tourists. Then,...
Tradition and Resistance
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Publ...