Robert Hellenga

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Margot Harrington

1 - The Sixteen Pleasures (May-1994)
2 - The Italian Lover (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • The Sixteen Pleasures

    Margot Harrington - 1

    Art and poetry, mystery and desire collide in this sensual and “elegantly moving” literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy (New Yorker). Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert a...

  • The Fall Of A Sparrow

    Robert Hellenga, bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures, once again reveals his profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit in a compelling and masterful novel.
    Alan Woodhull ("Woody"), a classics professor at...

  • Blues Lessons

    Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Althou...

  • Philosophy Made Simple

    Rudy Harrington has spent half his life in a rambling Chicago house, raising three daughters with his independent-minded wife. But his wife has died, his daughters have moved away, and Rudy is restless. In what he interprets as a moment of transcende...

  • The Italian Lover

    Margot Harrington - 2

    An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence , featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures. Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaiss...

  • Snakewoman of Little Egypt

    On the morning of his fortieth birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he return to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwestern university to...

  • The Confessions of Frances Godwin

    The Confessions of Frances Godwin is the fictional memoir of a retired high school Latin teacher looking back on a life of trying to do her best amidst transgressions--starting with her affair with Paul, whom she later marries. Now that Paul is dead ...

  • The Truth about Death: And Other Stories

    "The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Sim...

  • Love, Death & Rare Books

    Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and i...



Award-Winning Books by Robert Hellenga

The Confessions of Frances Godwin
2015 Society of Midland Authors Award -- Adult Fiction
The Sixteen Pleasures
1995 Society of Midland Authors Award -- Adult Fiction
Snakewoman of Little Egypt
2011 Audies -- Literary Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Hellenga has published 9 books.

Robert Hellenga does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love, Death & Rare Books, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Robert Hellenga, The Sixteen Pleasures, was published in May 1994.

Yes. Robert Hellenga has 1 series.
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