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Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters |
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Ari Berk (Editor) |
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The Cottington Archive reluctantly announces that more information about the infamous Lady Cottington has surfaced: a scrapbook compiled by the fairy smasher herself of her correspondence with luminaries such as Queen Victoria, Annie Oakley, Igor Stravinsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lang, P.T. Barnum, and more. All about fairies, these hilarious letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she EVER STOP this nasty habit?!). And the fairies...ah the fairies...they too have done their part, sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout.Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters, a facsimile reproduction of Lady Cottington's original volume, combines the nutty artistry of the first two Lady Cottington books... |
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The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 |
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Jim Murphy |
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Grade 5-8-Brian Doyle, 14, decides he has had enough of his alcoholic, abusive father and leaves San Francisco to sign on to a whaling ship. From the beginning, the voyage appears to be plagued by bad luck: the sailors find very few whales and must journey to the frigid, dangerous seas around Alaska. Brian's journal details the trials of living aboard the Florence, including the clash of personalities, bad weather, an incompetent captain, and the illness and death of some crewmembers. When they enter the Bering Strait and the ice closes around the ship, the sailors must abandon the vessel and split up with the lifeboats. When Brian's group reaches land, he sets off on his own to look for a settlement and brings back help to rescue the rest of the men. Murphy does a good job of combining a gripping adventure... |
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The Best Catholic Writing 2004 |
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Brian Doyle |
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082941729X |
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From Publishers Weekly
Doyle introduces the first volume in this series by attempting to answer the question, "What is Catholic writing?" His gleanings from books and such Catholic periodicals as America, Commonweal, First Things, National Catholic Reporter, St. Anthony Messenger and U.S. Catholic elaborate more fully on the question, but Doyle makes clear at the outset that he prefers to define the genre broadly. To be Catholic, he posits, writing need not necessarily be by Catholics or even about what he calls "churchiana." Rather, he suggests, "Catholic is also, delightfully, miraculously, catholic." For him, anything that grapples with the larger questions of human existence qualifies. Thus, included in this collection are Kathleen Norris's "The Grace of Aridity, & Other Comedies," an essay drawn from life on South Dakota's... |
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Giggler Treatment |
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Roddy Doyle |
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What, you might well ask, is the Giggler Treatment? Better yet, what precisely is a Giggler? You won't find out until chapter 6 of Roddy Doyle's The Giggler Treatment, but for those of you who can't wait, here's the answer: Gigglers are "baby-sized and furry. Their fur changes color as they move." Their main occupation in life is to look after children and to punish adults who are mean or unfair to them. And the Treatment? Four words: "Poo on the shoe." The Gigglers have always been there. Since the first dog did its first poo. Since the first caveman grunted at his first cavechild. He stomped out of the cave, straight onto a huge lump of prehistoric poo. In his first children's book, Roddy Doyle, prize-winning author of such adult fare as Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Barrytown Trilogy, and A Star Called... |
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English and Englishness |
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Brian Doyle |
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0415291216 |
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Rover Saves Christmas |
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Roddy Doyle |
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Although most grownups know Roddy Doyle better from his Barrytown comic novels (including The Commitments), he's thankfully returned for a children's book follow-up to his ridiculously ridiculous The Giggler Treatment. What's the cast of kids from that nimble-witted book leaving on the mantel for Santa? One of their mother's cans of Guinness. Oh, and 27 cheese sandwiches (minus the crusts). Doyle's decidedly Irish, self-referential silliness gets a workout on Christmas Eve as Robbie and Jimmy Mack find themselves "very bored and very excited" waiting for Christmas Day. They leave a carrot on the mantel, too, for Rudolph, but soon discover that the red-nosed reindeer's on strike. ("Look, man, next year, maybe," Rudolph tells Santa. "It's a mid-life thing. I need a rest.") So it's soon up to Rover, the smartest dog... |
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The Best Catholic Writing 2005 |
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Brian Doyle (Editor) |
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Uncle Ronald |
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Brian Doyle |
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0613103270 |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8. At age 112, Mickey McGuire is Canada's oldest citizen, but he remembers with perfect clarity the events beginning in Ottawa in 1895. That year, without investigating the cause of his daily fainting spells, school authorities decide that 12-year-old Mickey should stay home. When his bed wetting begins, the boy's efforts to cure the problem ring with both hilarity and pathos. A larger concern is the frequent beatings he and his mother receive at the hands of his alcoholic father. Determined to spare her son further trauma, Mickey's mother sends him to stay on her family's farm run by her brother and twin sisters. Strong and tender, Uncle Ronald is wise in the ways of horses, geese, and men, and is the antithesis of the boy's brutal father. When Mickey's mother arrives after a particularly savage... |
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Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies |
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Brian Doyle |
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After more than twenty years of "diligent scribbling," author Brian Doyle, an award-winning Catholic writer and editor of Portland Magazine, collected over thirty of his essays and put them together in this book. From a series of seemingly incongruous musings, Doyle weaves a compelling tapestry of stories with spirituality as the common thread. Doyle writes eloquently about life and death, fear and faith, miracles and the mundane. In this compilation of literary writings about Catholicism, his children, birds, and cars, Doyle powerfully captures the Catholic lay spirit. Also included is a poignant memorial to the victims of September 11. Recalling his past, celebrating his present, and looking to the future, Doyle reminds us that by noticing the mysterious cycle of life we become aware of the blizzard of... |
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Easy Avenue |
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Brian Doyle |
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Gr 7-9-Hulbert "Hubbo" O'Driscoll is a teenaged golf caddy about to start high school. Things are going from bad to worse as he finds true love in the form of Fleurette Featherstone Fitchell and true hate in the form of the elitist Hi-Y club. Life looks fairly grim for this lad, his friends, and his guardian, Mrs. O'Driscoll, but the fortunes are smiling on this hapless orphan, and he is canny enough to nod his head and smile right back. The story takes place in post-World War II Canada where society cruelly draws the lines between rich and poor. Doyle's writing takes star billing in this perfectly crafted, rollicking read. The narrative is colorful, with some delightfully comic moments, and the story and language are completely accessible to teens. The character list at the end with brief Hubboized synopses... |
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew |
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Brian Hicks |
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God Is Love |
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Brian Doyle |
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From Publishers Weekly
This collection reads like a mesmerizing love song to the complex and sometimes unwieldy religion of Christianity. All the poems and essays in this outstanding anthology come from the esteemed Portland Magazine, a quarterly Christian-themed publication from the University of Portland. Magazine editor Doyle has assembled an especially talented and gutsy cast of contributors, including Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez and Pattiann Rogers. In David James Duncan's courageous essay, "Gladly," he writes about getting caught playing "Hang on Sloopy" on the church piano when he was 12 years old. "This is God's House!" an elder bellowed as he threw Duncan out of the building. At the time, Duncan didn't believe in this enraged man's intolerant God. "I still don't," he writes, "though the man seemed to have cloned... |
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The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart |
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Brian Doyle |
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Nine years ago the author's wife gave birth to twin boys. One was entirely normal, but the other was missing a chamber in his heart. At five months and again at 18 months, Liam had open-heart surgery. Someday he will need a heart transplant, but for now he "runs around like an insane dorky gawky goofy heron and rides his bike and shoots hoop, and skateboards and swings and punches out his brother and snarls at his sister and refuses to make his bed...." This book is about Liam, and it is also about his surgeon, his family and dozens of others with heart-related stories. It is about heart as a physical organ—how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn't—and about heart as a metaphor for "the distilled essence of character and spirit." Most of all, it is about love, which has... |
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Brian Blessed: Quest Lost World |
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Brian Blessed |
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Best Catholic Writing 2006 |
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Brian Doyle |
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0829423567 |
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Hey, Dad! |
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Brian Doyle |
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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 rather stay home and be president of the Down with Boys Club any day. But she has no choice. She has to endure endless driving, being trapped in a car with her younger brother, and the great view of the transport trucks that box them in on all sides. But as the days go by Megan begins to change her mind. There are constant reports on the radio about forest fires across huge parts of the country. There is the old lady who owns a motel and is so glad to have the family stay there because the recent death of her husband has left her lonely and sad. There are the cute boys at a lakeside stop. All these experiences jumble together... |
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