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Ham On Rye

by Charles Bukowski

Published: 1982-09

Paperback: 283 pages

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In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent ...

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The Hambledown Dream

by Dean Mayes

Published: 2010-01-20

Paperback: 284 pages

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Australian Denny Banister had it all; a successful career, a passion for the guitar and Sonya - the love of his life. Tragically, Denny is struck down with inoperable cancer. Andy DeVries has almost nothing; alienated from his family, moving through a dangerous Chicago underworld dealing in drugs,...

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The Hamilton Case: A Novel

by Michelle de Kretser

Published: 2003

Paperback: 256 pages

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Set in 1930s’ Ceylon amid tea plantations, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping novel by the author of The Rose Grower, confirms her as a writer of real talent and originality.Sam Obeysekere -- “obey” by name and by nature -- is a Ceylonese lawyer, ...

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2011-08-10

Paperback: 330 pages

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Each edition includes: ? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play ? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play ? Scene-by-scene plot summaries ? A key to famous lines and phrases ? An introduction to reading Shakespea...

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Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

by William Powers

Published: 2010-07-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life?" At a time when we're all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to ...

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The Hand and the Road: The Life and Times of John A. Mackay

by John Metzger

Published: 2010-01-11

Paperback: 536 pages

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This is the first biography of John A. Mackay (1889?1983), an important Presbyterian leader, missionary, and professor who served as president of Princeton Theological Seminary from 1936 to 1959. As president, he rebuilt the seminary faculty after the split in 1927. His ecumenical vision opened Princeton...

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The Hand I Fan With

by Tina Mcelroy Ansa

Published: 1997-12-29

Paperback: 480 pages

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Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson.  Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has grown weary of shouldering the town's problems ...

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Hand in Glove

by Robert Goddard

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 435 pages

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In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster's family?especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patie...

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Hand Me Down

by Melanie Thorne

Published: 2012-04-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A tough, tender, debut novel, in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, Hand Me Down is the unforgettable story of a girl who travels between California and Utah in search of her true family, having never been loved best of all. Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her...

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Hand Me Down World: A Novel

by Lloyd Jones

Published: 2012-10-16

Paperback: 320 pages

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We begin in Tunisia, where a young woman's son is stolen from her, taken by his father back to Berlin, far from reach. And yet this mother will do anything to reclaim him; she embarks on a journey first across the Mediterranean, and then across Europe. Her story emerges through a kaleidosc...