Brian Doyle
1) The plover
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon...David...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with finding a connection between two murders and an explosion in the middle of a popular tourist area in downtown Bruges, Inspector Van In and feisty assistant DA Hannelore Maartens thwart a series of terrorist plots to save innocent lives.