Hawthorne: 81 books

Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study-retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play.Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately...

MICHAEL STRELOW WEAVES THE STORY OF A TOWN and its mysteries in his debut novel, The Greening of Ben Brown, an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. Ben Brown, the protagonist, becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon, after he recovers from an electrocution that has not left him dead but has turned...

At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But life’s happy endings don’t always last. If it’s not one thing, after all, it’s your mother. Her name is...

Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort...

For residents and visitors alike, Food Lover’s Guide to Portland is a road map to finding the best of the best in America’s favorite do-it-yourself foodie mecca. Navigate Portland’s edible bounty with this all-access pass to hundreds of producers, purveyors, distillers, bakers, food carts, and...

Tom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love story triangle akin to The Marriage Plot and Freedom, only with a gay main character who charms gays and straights alike. I Loved You More is a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak, covering twenty-five years in the life of a striving,...

By understanding the operation of God’s grace, we can walk in confidence, knowing that our Heavenly Father has empowered us to fulfill His divine destiny. His grace is fully able to lead us through the challenges of life as well as the triumphs. Because God loves each of us deeply and His desire is...

UNA multitud de hombres barbudos, vestidos con trajes obscuros y sombreros de copa alta, casi puntiaguda, de color gris, mezclados con mujeres unas con caperuzas y otras con la cabeza descubierta, se hallaba congregada frente á un edificio de madera cuya pesada puerta de roble estaba tachonada con...

Grey’s mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed with protecting her purity and innocence while befriending...

Kristen Shale is a New York barista with attitude who's just waiting to be taken down a peg. Her boyfriend can't handle her, but a chance meeting with a young CEO in a subway ends with her getting the punishment that she wants, and deserves.

THIS INTENSE AND COMPACT NOVEL crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be read...

Two high school frenemies are reunited as adults. Will the connection sizzle or fizzle? Find out as these two ladies try to grasp adulthood and life changing events with a very shaky background in common.

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....

President-elect Jefferson Walker, during an early December transition period briefing, is confronted with a sobering dilemma: A member of the Utopian Commission demands that he buy into a clandestine plan that he perceives as a potential Bay of Pigs fiasco.However, when Walker refuses, some Machiavellian...