The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 19th century 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 was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped.
But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's...
The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 19th century while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her ...
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...
A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailors who specialize...
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 manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed.
A love letter to Chicago, the Great American City, and a wry account of a young man s coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox...
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 th...
An anthology of 36 astonishing personal stories and essays from some of America's best writers that first appeared in Portland Magazine, the best university magazine in America (Newsweek).
An anthology of 36 astonishing personal stories and essays from some of America's best writers that first appeared in Portland Magazine, the best univ...
What is it Men are looking for and Need in a Church? and
How 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, and the health of churches are at risk. Engage begins at a macro level, helping to build the vision for your church, to a micro level showing how to meet men at their deepest need; to engage in something powerful.
Written from the...
Engage answers the age-old questions:
What is it Men are looking for and Need in a Church? and
But now Brian Doyle brings Stevensons 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 the greatest writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into The City by the Bay during its own energetic youth, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World is entertaining, poignant, and sensual.
But now Brian Doyle brings Stevensons untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering th...
