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49 produkter
English & Englishness
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2013
518 kr
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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 …
One Long River of Song
Notes on Wonder
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2020
202 kr
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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 …
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Av Brian Doyle
Inbunden, 2019
369 kr
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When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st century. Though Doyle occasionally …
English & Englishness
Av Brian Doyle
Inbunden, 2002
1415 kr
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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 …
English & Englishness
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2013
443 kr
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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 …
Shimmer of Something
Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2014
276 kr
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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 melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, …
Shimmer of Something
Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2014
275 kr
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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 melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, …
Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2016
325 kr
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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 of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and …
Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
Prose Prayers and Cheerful Chants against the Dark
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2016
352 kr
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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 of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and …
Hoop
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2017
492 kr
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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 ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like …
Hoop
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2019
293 kr
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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 ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like …
Hoop
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2017
486 kr
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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 ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like …
Grail
A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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Mink River
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2010
221 kr
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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 people.In a small town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and …
Wet Engine
Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2012
203 kr
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In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle 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 of the soul, the power house of the body, the essence of spirituality. In a series of profoundly …
Children and Other Wild Animals
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2014
286 kr
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In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and there elders and jumbos) delightfully blur the …
Hey, Dad!
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2006, 6-9 år
85 kr
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A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.
English & Englishness
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2013
518 kr
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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 …
Plover
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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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 alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, …
Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
Av Brian Doyle
Inbunden, 2017
321 kr
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The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he …
Chicago
A Novel
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2017
287 kr
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On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and …
Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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But now Brian Doyle brings 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 material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay. An adventure tale, an elegy to one of …
Spirited Men
Story, Soul and Substance
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2004
167 kr
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In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers “resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusiasms, headlong solos, laughing prayers, imaginary meetings with most unusual and most interesting men.” Geographically and chronologically …
Cristiano Ronaldo
World-Beater
Av Brian Doyle
E-bok, 2017
643 kr
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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 set scoring records while playing for powerhouses Manchester United in the British Premier League …
Mighty Currawongs
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2016
174 kr
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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 …
Bin Laden's Bald Spot: & Other Stories
& Other Stories
Av Brian Doyle
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian DoyleÆs fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail and sweeping nuttiness, tears and chortling—these …
Man after God's Own Heart
The Life of David
Häftad, 2015
117 kr
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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 he is an extraordinary role model, a man who was fully human but exceeded expectations and pointed others …
Engage
Building Your Church Based Ministry to Men
Häftad, 2017
217 kr
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Engage answers the age-old questions:What is it Men are looking for and Need in a Church? andHow do I build this Ministry?Engaging men to lead at the local church level is one of the biggest overlooked opportunities facing America’s churches today. The needs of men in the church are being missed, …
