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  • The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics

    • ASIN: B00F3Q7W3E
    • Manufacturer: Loyola Press

    Best-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing community. In this spirited collection of more than 40 essays, Doyle employs his trademark wit, candor, and gusto for life and faith to reignite readers�... [Read More]

  • Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, ... tigers and various other zoological matters

    • ASIN: 0870717545
    • ISBN: 0870717545
    • Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press

    "Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others"--

  • Martin Marten: A Novel

    • ASIN: 125008105X
    • ISBN: 125008105X
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    WINNER OF THE LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONDave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon’s Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy’east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future n... [Read More]

  • Chicago: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1250118123
    • ISBN: 1250118123
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    On the last day of summer, a young college grad moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment m... [Read More]

  • Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir

    • ASIN: 0393327280
    • ISBN: 0393327280
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original." ―Joan DidionSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In "quick, translucent prose" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical pos... [Read More]

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