Hawthorne Books: 41 books

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The Inventors

A Memoir

by Peter Selgin
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

In the Fall of 1970, at the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who’d arrived from Oxford wearing Frye boots, with long blond hair, and a passion for his students that was as intense as it was rebellious. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also...
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by Poe Ballantine
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

Since the publication of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed, legions of Poe Ballantine fans have been waiting for his new book. Poe Ballantine is touted as the most "under known" writer by Tom Robbins and many other writers and...
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by Poe Ballantine
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere.For well over twenty years, Poe Ballantine traveled America, taking odd jobs, living in small rooms, and wondering the big whys....
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by Sallie Tisdale
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016

Most Anticipated, Too: The Great 2016 Nonfiction Book PreviewThe MillionsGROUNDBREAKING. A career-defining book. -The New YorkerSallie Tisdale is the author of seven books on such varied subjects as medical technology, her pioneer ancestors and Buddhist women teachers. Her many essays have appeared in...
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Little Green

A Novel

by Loretta Stinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

In Little Green, Loretta Stinson’s stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned and in the care of her stepmother. The novel opens two years later, in 1976, when Janie, at fourteen, runs away. A ride she’s hitchhiked leaves her on the freeway outside a Northwestern town....
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by Richard Wiley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines....
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Things I Like About America

Personal Narratives

by Poe Ballantine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

POE BALLANTINE’S RISKY PERSONAL ESSAYS are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound bus journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and...
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by Lidia Yuknavitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is...
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501 Minutes to Christ

Personal Essays

by Poe Ballantine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 2007, POE BALLANTINE’S second collection of personal essays follows in the tradition of Things I Like About America. Stories range from "The Irving," which details Mr. Ballantine’s diabolical plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an audience of 2,000...
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Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter

In Praise of Brevity

by David Shields, Elizabeth Cooperman
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

Life Is Short-Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious...
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by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011

An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore...
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by Monica Wesolowska
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won’t stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must...
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White Matter

A Memoir of Family and Medicine

by Janet Sternburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015

White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg’s grandfather abandoned...
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The Next Scott Nadelson

A Life in Progress

by Scott Nadelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson’s life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car’s brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next...
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