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12 reviews
Gin Phillips

Hawthorne Books, 2008

a gem
"The Well and the Mine" is a book that you will want to treasure like a family heirloom. Like an old pocketwatch your great grandfather gave you or a locket you keep close to the heart, this story is a rare gem. Even though short at a respectable 250 pages, this novel easily stands beside the classics of Steinbeck, Faulkner, or Welty. Told with multiple first person narratives and without one ...

501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays

3 reviews
Poe Ballantine

Hawthorne Books, 2007

Thank God for Poe Ballantine!
Poe Ballantine's latest is just as good as everything else he has written. I have followed his writings in The Sun for years, and his stories now published in books are my antidotes to despair. Poe goes to the dark and unseen sides of America and writes with amazing clarity and honesty. He knows what he is talking about. As a reader this kind of trust in a writer is essential. Reading these ...

Clown Girl: A Novel

37 reviews
Monica Drake

Hawthorne Books, 2007

Hello Monica Drake!
This is a wonderful mix of sad desperation and intentional unintentional hilarity. Monica Drake's debut novel has captured my heart. I never thought I would find myself relating to a pyro-clown who just wants to feel loved and accepted. I recommend this book to anyone who loves the sardonic comedy of Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, or William S. Burroughs.

Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire: A Novel (Edgar Adventures)

6 reviews
Poe Ballantine

Hawthorne Books, 2006

Part Salinger, Part Palahniuk, All Awesomeness
I am not a big fan of most recent fiction. It is so often just whiny, self-aggrandizing crap that glorifies debauchery and pretends to carry a greater message. I picked this book off the shelf because the title and the cover are hard to dismiss. Reading the first page, even though the subject material seems conventional, it was immediately clear that I held a novel wholly different from any of ...

The Cantor's Daughter: Stories

3 reviews
Scott Nadelson

Hawthorne Books, 2006

Best Thing I've Read in 06
The Cantor's Daughter is Scott Nadelson's excellent second collection of stories (including one novella). I was mostly flummoxed by the Publisher's Weekly review, which was intelligent in its own way and demonstrated acquaintance with the stories, but in the end offered insights more pertinent to Pippi Longstocking or Men in Latvian Maid Outfits Wrestling Among the Timbers. Trust me on this, ...

Faraway Places (Hawthorne Rediscovery)

4 reviews
Tom Spanbauer

Hawthorne Books, 2008

Lovely!
Jacob Joseph Weber is 13 years old, and his eyes are seeing things in ways he's never seen them before. In 125 pages, Spanbauer tells the story of Jake's journey from boyhood to manhood in a time and place where being a man seems to mean making all the right mistakes. Jake sees truth in places his father no longer can, but in the process of opening his own eyes, he may be helping his father ...

The Challenge of Child Training (A Parents' Guide, An abridged edition of "The Challenge of Parenting")

Hawthorne Books, 1972

Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs provides practical advice on specific training situations - from weaning to classroom difficulties - plus an attitude of heart and mind toward children and child training.

The Golden Temple Vegetarian Cookbook

1 review
Yogi Bhajan

Hawthorne Books, 1978

Healthy, Happy, and Holy!
Here's something you're not likely to see again: a cookbook, or more like a manual for eating, by the champion of Kundalini yoga and genuine 70's spiritual icon Yogi Bhajan. The book is lacto-vegetarian and is definitely a product of its time, though I feel that there is no reason to confine the principles of the 60's and 70's "health movement" to a specific age since being healthy and conscious ...

Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery)
Richard Wiley

Hawthorne Books, 2006

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. Their perilous attempts to remain neutral in a conflict where their loyalties are deeply divided are shattered when Jimmy is killed by ...

Leaving Brooklyn (Rediscovery)

2 reviews
Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Hawthorne Books, 2007

We're all still leaving Brooklyn
I loved Leaving Brooklyn, and I think I, like the main character Audrey, am still trying to get free even though I have never been there. Brooklyn is that safe and settled fantasy we were taught to believe in as children and cling to, beyond reason, as adults. Audrey is an outrageous character--ambitious and calculated--fully believable as a fifteen year old. I relate to her and the ...

The challenge of marriage

2 reviews
Rudolf Dreikurs

Hawthorne Books, 1974

A classic that has stood the test of time
What amazed me about this book is how down-to-Earth it is. It was originally published more than 50 years ago, yet it does not read like a manual from a bygone era, with no relevance to today. It simply talks about what most people in marriage are trying to achieve, and the very real challeneges that come at them and that they put before themselves. It doesn't preach and it doesn't propose to ...

Two Romantic Suspense Novels by Phyllis A. Whitney: Blue Fire and Black Amber
Phyllis Whitney

Hawthorne Books, 1964

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