Brooks Hansen

• Oct-1991
• / General Fiction
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A fictional portrait of Eton Arthur Boone follows the life and times of the enigmatic, controversial artist of the 1960s and 1970s from his California youth, through his seminal film and theatrical career, to his untimely death and posthumous fame...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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An exotic, spiritual tale emerges in a collection of twelve letters sent with chess pieces to his wife Sonja by Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven while serving in the Boer War concentration camps in South Africa...

• Aug-1999
• / General Fiction
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New York Times Notable Book of the Year

One evening in London in 1906, Dr. August Perlman--classical music lover, hashish devotee, and a scrupulously scientific pioneer of "clinical suggestion" (or hypnotism)--is about to leave for the symphon...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatriates, the descendants of Portuguese settlers, and their slaves. Bonaparte'...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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A vivid, moving, and unprecedented biographical saga of John the Baptist. Traditionally, John the Baptist is seen as little more than an opening act -- “the voice crying in the wilderness” -- in the great Christian drama. In presenting the epic o...

• Mar-2016
• / Fantasy
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…Here again, his natural figure crouched beside her in the dank darkness of the cave, watching her in silence as she slept, struggling with cravings which were new to him, both tender and violent, and which he could only really compare to hunger…...

• Sep-2016
• / Fantasy
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There is a beast that lives in Central Park. The Castle is his home. The park is his domain, and he has been ruling there, in his way, for longer than anyone can remember. The reason so few know of him is because he only comes out at night, and it is...

• Nov-2021
• / Historical Mystery
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In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman�...

• / General Fiction
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By a master of "surreal storytelling in the tradition of Carroll, Lewis, and Tolkien." --Library Journal

As he travels on his own mission to the Northlands of Norway, a reindeer named Caesar is joined by unlikely companions; a mother sparrow s...