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  • Up to Low

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters, including Crazy Mickey, Frank and the Hummer. Award-winning author Brian Doyle spent the summers of his boyhood in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angel Square

    by Brian Doyle ...
    A Phoenix Honor Award BookYoung Tommy is seeing Angel Square through new eyes since his best friend's father was beaten up just because he's Jewish. Brian Doyle brings his award-winning blend of humor and wisdom to bear in this mystery that confronts the issue of racial hatred. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Can Pick Me Up at Peggy's Cove

    by Brian Doyle ...
    When Ryan's dad runs away from home because of the change of life, Ryan is sent to spend the summer with his aunt in Peggy's Cove.He goes fishing, almost gets into big trouble and learns a lot about tourist behavior, but most of all he misses his dad and hopes he'll come back soon. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grace Notes

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Brian Doyle might just be the most passionate storyteller in America. In this eclectic and compelling collection of stories Doyle writes about his discovery of the incarnated Spirit of God every time he turns around, often in the most unlikely of people, places, and things. In 37 short snapshots, he captures the spiritual essence of everyday life from the perspective of a committed Catholic who ... Read more

    $12.62 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle Ronald

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare Selection Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can't remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa. Brilliantly combining humor ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boy O'Boy

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, and an ALA Notable Books List selection Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother counts on. But life in Ottawa's Lowertown is not all ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Ann Alice

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and a Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selectionIn this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald.Mary Ann Alice McCrank was named for the pretty church bell in the steeple of St. Martin's Church in the Martindale. She has the soul of a poet and Mickey McGuire Jr. is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Long River of Song

    Notes on Wonder

    by Brian Doyle ...
    From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.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 ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Easy Avenue

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year AwardIn his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids.In this novel based on Great Expectations, Brian Doyle does a brilliant job of dealing with the issue of class and all its implications. Poverty, social climbing and the connotations of each are presented through ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spud Sweetgrass

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Spud gets angry when he sees Dumper Stubbs, a creepy delivery man, dumping oil into a storm drain and causing terrible pollution in the river. When Spud blows the whistle, he loses his job. Enlisting the help of his buddy, Dink the Thinker, and Connie Pan, Spud thinks he has a chance of regaining his job … and stopping the Dumper's harmful activities. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spud in Winter

    by Brian Doyle ...
    Spud Sweetgrass and his friends Connie Pan and Dink the Thinker are back. And this time Spud is in some frigid trouble. One morning Spud sees a terrible crime. And he can't get it out of his mind. Detective Kennedy wants him to tell her what he saw, but he's afraid of the man with the most beautiful hair in the world -- afraid for himself, and afraid for Connie Pan.How will Spud find his way our ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Covered Bridge

    by Brian Doyle ...
    In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt and uncle. When the local covered bridge -- home to a wayward ghost and her lovelorn postman -- is threatened by development, Hubbo must devise a strategy to save it. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus