Brian Doyle (1957-2017) was the longtime editor of the University of Portland's award-winning Portland Magazine. His essays appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. Catholic, First Things, Christian Century, America, and The American Scholar. He was the author of two Liturgical Press books, A Shimmer of Something: Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance and The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be: Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark as well as a contributor to Give Us This Day.
39 Ebooks door Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle: A Shimmer of Something
Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever—welcome to the melodi …
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Brian Doyle: The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
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 book of cadenced notes on the swirl …
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€22.99
David Lazar & Patrick Madden: After Montaigne
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakew …
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Brian Doyle: Hoop
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 graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociou …
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€29.99
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels: American Catholics, American Culture
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable …
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Brian Doyle: Spirited Men
In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers "resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusiasms, headlong solos, laughing prayers, imagina …
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€19.20
Jef Geeraerts: The Public Prosecutor
Albert Savelkoul, Public Prosecutor of Antwerp has power, money, an aristocratic wife and a high-maintenance mistress. A wonderful life-until Opus Dei takes a less than benevolent interest in it. So …
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Brian Doyle: English and Englishness
First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage …
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Brian Doyle: English and Englishness
First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage …
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€28.44
Afua Cooper & Brian Doyle: Dear Canada: Hoping for Home
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada’s top children’s authors contribute …
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€23.15
Pieter Aspe: Square of Revenge
The #1 international bestselling crime thriller that introduces Belgian detective Pieter Van In, “a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of” (The New York Times Book Review). Th …
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€11.63
Pieter Aspe: From Bruges with Love
Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye—but nothing stays hidden forever Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy …
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Pieter Aspe: From Bruges with Love
Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye—but nothing stays hidden forever Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy …
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Brian Doyle: Angel Square
It’s 1945, almost Christmas, and Tommy – a.k.a. The Shadow – is on a mission to find out who beat up his best friend Sammy’s father. Aunt Dottie says whoever beat up Mr. Rosenberg doesn’t like Jewish …
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€15.39
Brian Doyle: Pure Spring
Spring has arrived, and Martin OBoy has finally found a true home with Grampa Rip and a job at the Pure Spring soft drink company, though he lied about his age to get it. However, not everything is p …
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Brian Doyle: Eight Whopping Lies and Other Stories of Bruised Grace
‘;Brian Doyle is an extraordinary writer whose tales will endure.’ Cynthia Ozick, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Quarrel and Quandary This is a guided tour through the mind of o …
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€12.81
Brian Doyle: Book of Uncommon Prayer
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. Prayers for cashiers and good shoes; for shorter se …
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€21.86
Brian Doyle: So Very Much the Best of Us
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 stories that have appeared in various publicatio …
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€14.11
Brian Doyle: Reading In Bed
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 ultimate collection of his thoughts on writers and writing …
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Pieter Aspe: Midas Murders
In the second novel by the international bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plots One quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a pro …
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Brian Doyle: Cristiano Ronaldo
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the greatest player of the current generation has been the other-worldly Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal. Overcoming a heart problem as a teenager, Ronaldo …
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Pieter Aspe: Fourth Figure
Nominated for the Hercule Poirot Award: Commissioner Pieter Van In must find the link between members of a satanic conspiracy and a young woman’s death A young woman is found dead in the canal …
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Brian Doyle: Boy O’Boy
Martin OBoys life is not easy. His beloved Granny just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time, and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother counts on …
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Brian Doyle: Covered Bridge
Hubbo O’Driscoll, the earnest young hero from Easy Avenue, is back. He’s living at Mushrat Creek in the Gatineau Hills and has found a new job as curator for the local covered bridge. Things seem to …
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Brian Doyle: Easy Avenue
Hubbo O’Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and family and the shallow but rich kids at his school.Hubbo’s first year in high school is off to a bad start as he veers wildly between the …
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Brian Doyle: Hey, Dad!
In Brian Doyle’s first book, teenager Megan dreads making a road trip all the way across the country with her parents and younger brother Ryan. Her father’s tendency to joke doesn’t help. She’d rathe …
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Brian Doyle: Mary Ann Alice
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 Mc Crank was named for the pretty church bell …
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Brian Doyle: Spud in Winter
Its winter in Ottawa, and that means crunching snow, plunging temperatures, and frozen canals. It also means murder. Ottawa Technical High School student Spud Sweetgrass has just witnessed a killing …
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Brian Doyle: Spud Sweetgrass
Suspended from school for cussing at a mean teacher, John Spud’ Sweetgrass at least still has his job selling french fries from a curbside chip wagon. But he notices that something stinks literally. …
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Brian Doyle: Uncle Ronald
Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can’t remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away …
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Brian Doyle: Up to Low
In Up to Low Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium shaped eyes, discover that loving and healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help …
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Brian Doyle: You Can Pick Me Up at Peggy’s Cove
Ryans dad is having a midlife crisis. He went away for the summer to try to work through his problems, leaving his family behind. Ryans mother decides to send Ryan to Peggys Cove, the most beautiful …
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Jef Geeraerts: The Public Prosecutor
Albert Savelkoul, Public Prosecutor of Antwerp has power, money, an aristocratic wife and a high-maintenance mistress. A wonderful life-until Opus Dei takes a less than benevolent interest in it. So …
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€7.99
Brad Stewart: Man after God’s Own Heart
David was a man after God’s own heart . . . What does it mean to be someone "after God’s own heart?" David, King, psalmist and shepherd, gives us a picture with his own life. In many ways h …
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Brian Doyle: Bin Laden’s Bald Spot
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 Doyle’s fiction, where the odd is happening a …
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€19.31
Brian Doyle: Engage
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 the local church level is one of the biggest overloo …
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Jeroen Leinders: Tula
Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curaçao in 1795 – now a major motion picture starr …
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Brian Doyle: Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
"An affectionate homage, " this novel of Stevenson’s evolution into an adventure writer is "a loving reconstruction of an era of storytelling now lost" (New York Times).The young …
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Brian Doyle: Martin Marten
A teenage boy and an American pine marten each embark on the adventure of growing up in the award-winning YA novel by the author of Mink River.Dave is fourteen years old, eager, and precocious. He is …
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