Hamilton Stone: 22 books

Camino Meditations is a pocket book for spiritual adventurers. This small practical book includes short inspirational chapters, followed by simple walking meditations, journal exercises and action steps. The writing is peppered with Camino wisdoms Watt learned on her own pilgrimage walking with fellow...

This collection of memoir scenes and vignettes is full of beautiful and haunting engagements with the generations and mortality. It travels all the family vectors: fathers and sons, mothers and sons, brothers, husbands, and wives. It brilliantly weaves the speaker's past and present into a study...

The short stories in Meredith Sue Willis’ Re-visons: Stories from Stories will take you back to your Scripture, your Shakespeare and your Harriet Beecher Stowe. And when you do glance back at the stories that Willis here “re-visions,” you might be surprised at the way in which women figure in...

In the late nineteen sixties, West Virginia born Blair Morgan moves to New York City, where she works at Bellevue Hospital and is involved in the 1968 anti-war sit-ins at Columbia University. The novel includes scenes of political protest and personal coming of age as well as life on a rehabilitation ward in the old Bellevue Hospital.

When Meredith Sue Willis's first novel, which tells the story of a troubled preacher's family in West Virginia, first came out in 1979, it was declared a cause for celebration by the Los Angeles Times. Comparing Willis to Anne Tyler, the Times wrote: "She has written with depth and honesty...

Oradell Greengold, the brassy narrator of Meredith Sue Willis' Oradell at Sea, spends her days and her deceased husband's fortune cruising on first-class luxury liners where young Greek deckhands wait on her hand and foot-rub. Oradell is a modern-day Mae West who unapologetically enjoys...

Higher Ground, the first novel of the Blair Morgan trilogy, was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1981 and remains in print. The trilogy examines small town life and social movements of the 1960's through the lens of Blair Ellen Morgan's coming-of-age. Blair Ellen attends the high school...

Blair Morgan leaves college to fight poverty following a charismatic, but unconventional religious leader. The familiar conventions of the novel of initiation are made new by a convincing female protagonist and a narrative that uses politics as the setting and vehicle of individual maturation, focusing...

In Dwight's House and Other Stories, Meredith Sue Willis's eclecticism and layered prose release us from the moorings of "regional fiction." Written by a prize-winning member of the Appalachian Renaissance in literature, Dwight's House & Other Stories is an anthology of short stories...

In autobiographical stories and essays, Eva Kollisch, rescued in childhood from the Nazis by a Kindertransport, deals with the themes of anti-Semitism, uprooting, outsiderdom, and search for community. She unflinchingly traces the marks which persecution and exclusion leave on the mind and...

The Fragile Mistress tells the story of an adolescent girl in Israel in the early '60s. Her character's mother had grown up in British Mandate Palestine, one of several factors making the memory bank of this book so rich -- appropriate for a place with almost too much history to bear and retain one's...

The death of Sharon Hobart launches Marco Navarro into an exploration of the recent past. Did she love him, or did she have an ulterior reason for befriending him? Was she connected to Allied Chemicals Corporation other than socially? Having emerged from that segment of society, her father a wealthy...

Vera Steiner lives through pogrom, poverty, epidemic ... but how can she go on after she loses everything? In a time before anyone dares dream that love is a right, Vera pays for her deviance with lifelong loneliness. Yet this is not a throwback to the old doomed-lesbian tale. Vera survives. Fifty...

Imagine those dreams in which you're in your old high school, even though the place looks nothing like your old high school. Events seem normal enough at first, but then, suddenly, everyone is using fire poles instead of stairs to get from floor to floor, and you realize you're wearing pajamas. Reading Rosenthal's short stories is like having one of those dreams.