Robert Bausch

• Feb-1982
• / General Fiction
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Imagine the elation of having your dead son brought back to life. That is what Michael Sumner's parents experience when, one year after he's reported killed in action in Vietnam, they are told their son is alive and has escaped from a cadre of Viet C...

• Mar-1984
• / General Fiction
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I've been here before, says Riley Chance. I mean way before. I never knew it until a few years ago—when I was fifteen. I had no idea until that time. We lived in Chicago, and I just believed I was like everyone else—except I did worry a...

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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When Charlie Wiggins, a thirty-five-year-old car salesman, is given the power of God for one year, he sets out to put the world to rights, but he soon discovers that even omnipotence has its limitations...

• Aug-2001
• / General Fiction
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At the heart of this compelling novel about why men act the way they do is the profound and affecting story of a family, of what tears them apart and what can bring them back together.
Henry Porter's summer begins when his daughter Nicole-whom he...

• Oct-2002
• / Suspense
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Looming large over Crawford, Virginia, knitting together the fears and superstitions of its inhabitants, is the legend of the Gypsy Man. Everyone knows he was kidnapped and returned as an infant, growing into an odd and dangerous adult, only to disap...

• Sep-2005
• / Suspense
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Four characters burdened by the past intersect at a fading resort town when County Sheriff David Caldwell is called in to restore the order destroyed by the town bully, Cecil Edwards-a giant of a man who operates the Ferris wheel. Caldwell must also ...

• Jul-2011
• / Literary
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A brilliantly observed prep school novel about fraught teacher-student relationships--and about coming into adulthood.

Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have h...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the peo...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile. Granger knows that Smoke's talent is unprecedented for a woman, and n...