Ron Hansen

• Oct-1983
• / Historical
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Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart torn between dedicated worship an...

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction
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Compiled, with a preface, by Ron Hansen: twenty-four stories about love of all kinds.

• Mar-1989
• / General Fiction
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The Shadow Maker

I replace old shadows with new ones, plump shadows with lean ones, shabby shadows with spiffy ones," the Shadowmaker tells the townspeople. Soon everyone is parading around with brand-new shadows -- everyone...

• Oct-1991
• / General Fiction
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The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy....

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from h...

• Sep-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1996
• / Suspense
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Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. ...

• Feb-1997
• / Historical
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At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his posse committed. The...

• Oct-1999
• / General Fiction
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"A textured picture of Hitler's histrionic personality and his insane mission for glory, presaging the genocide to come in the cold-blooded obliteration of one young woman."   --  Publishers WeeklyHitler's Niece tells the story of the inten...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Once again, acclaimed novelist Ron Hansen demonstrates his masterful versatility as a writer, with Isn't It Romantic?, a screwball comedy in the tradition of filmmaker Preston Sturges. In this charming entertainment, mistaken identities, botched sche...

• May-2006
• / Historical
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Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated wors...

• May-2008
• / Historical
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With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for Engl...

• Jun-2011
• / Historical
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From the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction. Base...

• Nov-2012
• / Literary
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From an author praised by literary giants such as John Irving and the "New York Times" alike, a stunning story collection--over two decades in the making. Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called "beautiful...

• Oct-2016
• / Historical
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A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminu...