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  • The Phoebe Variations

    A Novel

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    National BestsellerAn Oprah Daily Best BookAn Indie Next PickA LibraryReads Pick"A probing story about the reverberations of adoption, toxic friendship and what it means to be a mother."—Milwaukee Journal SentinelA stunning coming-of-age novel about friendship, mothers, and finding one's way in the world by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and <... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Excellent Lombards

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    A new classic from the author of Oprah's Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth."This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write... [it is] magnificent." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of CommonwealthMary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inh... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Disobedience

    A Novel

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • When Madeline Was Young

    A Novel

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Book of Ruth

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An "enthralling" novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family ( Entertainment Weekly).From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is "an extraordinary story of a family's disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres" ( People). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Playing Games

    by Lawrence Block, Elaine Kagan, Joe R. Lansdale, S. A.Cosby, Wallace Stroby, Warren Moore, Jeffery Deaver, David Morrell, Charles Ardai, Kevin Quigley, Robert Silverberg, Avri Klemer, Gar Anthony Haywood, Patricia Abbott, Jane Hamilton, Tod Goldberg ...
    WIN, LOSE, OR DIE.Whether it's child's play or for the highest stakes, whether we stick to the rules or cheat, we all play games — for fun, for thrills, for love or money, to prove we're the best or make an opponent knuckle under. And the games we play, with cards or dice or nothing but our wits, reveal something deeply personal about the players.In this powerful new anthology, Mystery Writers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milwaukee Noir

    by Jane Hamilton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Nick Petrie, Jennifer Morales, Larry Watson, Valerie Laken ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    In this gritty anthology, fourteen mystery stories show the seedier side of the Wisconsin city beyond beer, butter burgers, and Laverne & Shirley.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respect city. Now, fourteen authors ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laura Rider's Masterpiece

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    Laura and Charlie Rider have been married for twelve years. They share their nursery business in rural Wisconsin, their love for their animals, and their zeal for storytelling. Although Charlie's enthusiasm in the bedroom has worn Laura out, although she no longer sleeps with him, they are happy enough going along in their routine.Jenna Faroli is the host of a popular radio show, and in Laura's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Short History of a Prince

    A Novel

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    Walter McCloud is a boy with dreams unlike most. Introduced as a child to the genius of Balanchine and the lyricism of Tchaikovsky, Walter has always aspired to be a dancer. As he grows older, it becomes clear that despite his desire, he lacks the talent, and he faces the painful knowledge that his more gifted friends have already surpassed him.Soon, however, that pain is overshadowed when his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Map of the World

    A Novel

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives."It takes a writer of rare power and discipline to carry off an achievement like A Map of the World. Hamilton proves here that she is one of the best." —Newsweek**The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • Into Africa

    A Journey to the Heart of Pokot

    by Jane Hamilton ...
    How could she have known, sitting behind that red-headed boy in a fifth-grade Oregon classroom, she’d follow him into the heart of Africa? It was a wild journey of faith, thrusting her into the Pokot people’s lives in a remote corner of Kenya. In Into Africa, author Jane Hamilton tells their story offering a look at the everyday life of a bush missionary.For Dick and Jane Hamilton, entering the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD