Most Popular Books by Brian Doyle

Rarely in Canada has a writer painted such an evocative, funny and bittersweet portrait of a time and place as Brian Doyle has in his novels of the Gatineau River and of Ottawa. Doyle is highly acclaimed within and without Canada for his body of work. The first Canadian to be selected as a finalist for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award (the "Little Nobel"), he has repeatedly won the Canadian Library Association''s Book of the Year Award. His books have been selected for the Horn Book''s Fanfare List, and he has been published in many countries. The novels collected in this book have been made into plays, films and even an opera. But perhaps the most important tribute paid to Doyle''s work has been the continuous high sales of his books, as generations of readers have come to know and love his marvellous boy characters, such as Hubbo O''Driscoll, Young Tommy and Mickey, and their fabulous girlfriends -- Margo, the only girl in the world; Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes; and Fleurette Featherstone Fitchell, who wears a rag in her long curly black hair -- as well as the most unforgettable dog in Canadian literature, Nerves. The novels take place from 1895 to the early post-war years. They illuminate a part of our collective past and present in an eloquent and touching way, while moving us to side-splitting laughter. This collection proves what many have long suspected -- Brian Doyle is quite simply one of Canada''s greatest writers. Book jacket.

A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.

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 rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

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 the river. When Spud blows the whistle, he loses his job. Enlisting the help of his buddy, Dink the Thinker, and Connie Pan, Spud thinks he has a chance of regaining his job . . . and stopping the Dumper''s harmful activities. Spud in Winter Spud Sweetgrass and his friends Connie Pan and Dink the Thinker are back. And this time Spud is in some frigid trouble. One morning Spud sees a terrible crime. And he can''t get it out of his mind. Detective Kennedy wants him to tell her what he saw, but he''s afraid of the man with the most beautiful hair in the world -- afraid for himself, and afraid for Connie Pan.

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. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters, including Crazy Mickey, Frank and the Hummer. 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 from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa. Mary Ann Alice Mary Ann Alice McCrank was named for the pretty church bell in the steeple of St. Martin''s Church in the Martindale. She has the soul of a poet and Mickey McGuire Jr. is in love with her. Mary Ann Alice is passionately interested in many things, especially the geology of her part of the world. Her teacher, the wonderful Patchy Drizzle, shares her passion for rocks and fossils, many of which can be found along the river and in caves under the famous Paugan Falls.

The Elements of Expressive Conducting begins with a synthesis of various movement theories which allow beginning conducting students to understand how best to use their body as an expressive instrument. Strategies for developing musical expression beyond pedagogical execution are discussed in each chapter. The text further explores merging musical preparation with a healthy, tension-free approach to an individual''s movement. Readers will also find strategies for developing the coordination between the ear and body; ways to transfer "every day" movements to the art of conducting; and suggestions for building to a professional level of success.FeaturesExercises which stimulate the imagination and inform the bodyVideo examples of these exercises on the publisher''s websiteDrawings of imaginative ways to consider beat patternsMusical examples chosen to reinforce specific conducting fundamentalsPractical strategies drawn from the author''s more than four decades of pedagogical experience

Decan O’Donnell hajóra száll, s nekiindul a széles, vad óceánnak, mivel elege van az emberekből és problémáikból. Örül, hogy végre egyedül lesz saját kis világában, nem tartozik majd sehová, nem kötődik senki emberfiához. Ám a sors hamarosan egy sor különös, szórakoztató és veszélyes utast sodor az útjába. Miközben egy rejtélyes ellenség üldözi, O’Donnell vonakodva gyűjti be egyik utasát a másik után, hogy magányos hajója lassan megteljen humorral és szeretettel, veszekedéssel és feszültséggel, no meg madarakkal. Tengeri kalandregény az élet meglepő ösvényeiről, előre eltervezett és váratlan megoldásairól. „Ritka és szokatlan könyv ez az emberi szellem briliáns, misztikus felfedezőútjáról” – Kirkus Reviews „Miközben fölidéz bennünk több más utazásról szóló könyvet – Odüsszeia, Hideghegy, Pi élete –, ez a regény mégis nagyon más, markánsan megkülönbözteti a többitől nagyon eredeti, szellemes, lírai-filozofikus rácsodálkozása a világra. Megindító, felemelő és üdítően profán egyszerre. A regény az igazságot és a kiutat keresi, s ez a késztetés mindannyiunkban bennünk él.” – Bookreporter.com Brian Doyle az oregoni Portland Egyetem lapjának szerkesztője, esszégyűjtemények, verseskötetek, novellák és regények szerzője, amelyek közül a Mink River című regény 2010-ben elnyerte a Foreword Reviews Év Könyve-díját. Írásai különféle lapokban olvashatók a világ számos pontján – The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, The Sun, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The Times of London –, valamint gyűjteményes kötetekben, mint amilyen a Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing és a Best American Spiritual Writing című antológia. Számos elismerése közé tartozik három Pushcart-díj, a John Burroughs-díj, valamint az Amerikai Művészeti és Irodalmi Akadémia irodalmi díja, amelyet olyan neves elődök kaptak meg például, mint Kurt Vonnegut vagy Flannery O’Connor.

Hulbert, un jeune orphelin, vit chez une dame O''Driscoll qu''il considère comme sa mère. Il aborde son secondaire, l''adolescence et Fleurette Featherstone Fitchell. Des personnages bien campés dans le cadre des années 1945. Ce volume s''est mérité la mention "Livre de l''année de l''Association canadienne des bibliothécaires."

Epiphanies & Elegies is a collection of delightful, accessible poems shot through with wonder, humor, faith, and Irish Catholic heritage. Brian Doyle illuminates seemingly ordinary, everyday events in poems that will immediately touch with the reader with their truth. These warm and insightful pieces are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant takes on the small wonders and inevitable tragedies of life.

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, prayer, sin, love, boredom, joy, suffering and redemption play out in our daily lives. Doyle''s hundred-plus proems are lyrical creations resembling poetry, but devoid of any meter or typical poetic structure--and yet they are not strictly prose either. Some are droll and acid takes on modern life; others spirit-lifting paeans to the joy of creation; still others humorous and light appreciations of the grace-filled moments that can fill the day of any person paying close enough attention.

A father and son give their personal reflections on Catholic family lilfe and faith.

Words with Teeth aims at a combination of both establishing metaphor as the primary reading strategy for approaching Biblical Hebrew Poetry and applying the said strategy to a heterogeneous group of psalms know, in rather Victorian English, as the Psalms of Imprecation. This volume will first introduce the reader to the phenomenon of metaphor and how it interfaces with the Hebrew poetic text. It will then offer an historical/exegetical review of the reception of the Psalms of Imprecation, ranging from their exclusion on theological grounds to their acceptance on psychological grounds and the various shades of curiosity and revulsion in between. The main body of the book will represent a close individual reading of the Psalms of imprecation, using metaphor as a reading strategy. It will conclude in agreement with Adele Berlin that metaphor in Biblical Hebrew Poetry is the flip-side to parallelism, that parallelism frequently provides the structuring basis upon which non-structuring metaphor is grounded, and that metaphorical speech provided the psalmist(s) with a way of speaking the unspeakable about God and her relationship with human persons.

An essayist muses on the scientific, emotional, literary, philosophical, and spiritual understandings of the heart--from cardiology to courage, from love letters and pop songs to the teachings of Jesus--with his own infant son''s heart surgery as the thread weaving his reflections together.

A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle--exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailors who specialize in holes, how to report stigmata to your attending physician, the intense hilarity of basketball, how to have a bitter verbal marital fight in your car, an all-Chinese football team in Australia, soccer and Catholicism, what it''s like to be in a ska band, a singing Korean baker, an archbishop who loses his faith between the salad and the entree, genius Girl Scouts who save a radio station, and a baby born from a lake in Illinois. And some other fascinating stories. Really. Trust us.

A collection of essays on spirituality from Portland Magazine featuring the work of nationally known writers such as Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams and Cynthia Ozick.