Books from Hawthorne Books

Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me: A Novel
By Karen Karbo
... (with Gabrielle Reece) Fiction The Diamond Lane Trespassers Welcome Here For Young Adults Minerva Clark Gets a Clue Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me ANovel Karen Karbo.
Madison House: A Novel
By Peter Donahue
she confessed to Maddie only after she'd returned to the apartment late one night, that she'd gone dancing again, this time at the Floradora Dance Hall. Maddie didn't know how to respond to this revelation, and was even more shocked ...
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D.
By Frank Meeink, Jody Roy
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred.
Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories
By Scott Nadelson
I didn't say anything, and she started laughing. I told her what I planned to do with the money, and she said, “That's nice. I never got to travel. My mother always talked about bringing me to Poland to show me where she was born.
Stories for Boys: A Memoir
By Gregory Martin
Lipton, Snapple, AriZona, Nestea. Stawber, Raspber, Brisk Lemon, Lime, Diet Peach, Cactus, Ve Cher. She seemed paalyzed. “ere shouldn't be so many choices,” she said. e next day, my father vowed that he was no longer a danger to himself ...
The Luminist: A Novel
By David Rocklin
... swearing under their breath in Capie and broken English. The Maclears' home stood next to the Cape lighthouse, atop a red rockjetty. Its view of the whalers and tall mast ships was the envy of the expatriates.
Leaving Brooklyn
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
... and Hardy's drugstore; the lighted marquee of the Carroll Theatre announcing, through the falling snow, this week's movie. I couldn't read the title, ... In the deep distance, splatters of red and green alternated on wavy poles.
California Calling: A Self-Interrogation
By Natalie Singer
Jim's mother, Anne, who I will soon learn maintains a special room in their home just for storing her abundant collection of decorations for Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, and other such holidays, ...
Madison House: A Novel
By Peter Donahue
When Clyde and Maddie strolled up and stood on the opposite side of the four-foot chicken-wire fence surrounding the squareacre garden, Mr. Hunssler was bent over inspecting the remains of the viney rows of winter squash.
Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories
By Scott Nadelson
“Bernard?” he said, speaking to a cousin buried on Long Island four years earlier. “Is that you?” “It's Daniel,” I said. “Your grandson.” “You think about it, Bernard. This woman, I don't know about her.” “Your Brigade meetings,” I said ...
Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel
By Richard Wiley
September 11: Edited by Jeff Meyers West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero Essays, Poetry, Fiction 266 pages $16.95 andvaried and oen contadicto responses to the acts of terrorism perpetated on September 11, 2001 have inspired ...
Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity
By David Shields, Elizabeth Cooperman
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 ...
The Greening of Ben Brown: A Novel
By Michael Strelow
You'd shake a hand, and it was like holding onto a stick, like tree bark. My father's people were the moist ... He entered Ramsey's Bakery that day as a scout, a skeptic, a scientist of the senses. He could tell from the first whiff ...
Food Lover's Guide to Portland
By Liz Crain
No one better translates Portland's raging gustatory desires and DIY spirit. This book captures the joy of Toro Bravo; all heart, no bull. KAREN BROOKS, author of The Mighty Gastropolis I've known John Gorham for over a decade, ...
Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir
By Jenny Forrester
Narrow River, Wide Sky is a breathtaking, determinedly truthful story about one woman’s search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.
I Loved You More
By Tom Spanbauer
But it's when the three of us sit down at Ruth's oversized dining room table, me at the head of the table, Ruth to my left, Hank on the right–when I look down at the extra ... There's no more than two chicken breasts worth of chicken ...
The Luminist: A Novel
By David Rocklin
The Luminist is a weave of legend and history, science and art, politics and domesticity that are symphonic themes in the main title, the story of an enduring and forbidden friendship.
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D.
By Frank Meeink, Jody M. Roy
This new edition of the acclaimed Frank Meeink story includes a preface by the author, nine new chapters, an updated epilogue, and resource guides for substance abuse recovery and countering racism.
Whirlaway
By Poe Ballantine
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients, horseplayers, and record collectors.
Benchere in Wonderland: A Novel
By Steven Gillis
What is the role of art in the world?