Steven Schwartz

• Aug-1991
• / Literary
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• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
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Schwartz's storytelling gifts draw the reader achingly close to the characters, as their lives crisscross in and out of therapy. With humor and compassion, this deeply affecting novel shows that everyday life is often the true struggle and the ultima...

• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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In a third full-color songbook from Disney, the theme song from this summer's new animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is showcased, in a work that highlights the collaboration between composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwar...

• Mar-1998
• / General Fiction
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When sixteen-year-old David Nachman accidentally kills three-year-old Sarah Vale while drag racing, his world is thrown into turmoil and his life changes forever.

Set in Chester, Pennsylvania, in the 1960s, a town experiencing a renaissance, the st...

• Jul-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Schwartz settles across the southwest to shed light on souls who, despite all odds, are still looking for meaning....

• Feb-2013
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2014 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction

2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award - Gold Medal Winner in Short Stories ...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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Praise for Madagascar

"A collection to be held up as evidence that the short story not only endures but also flourishes."Booklist, starred review

"Steven Schwartz's masterly Lives of the Fathers mines our deepest feelings toward paren...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer -- its abundance of jobs, space, sunshine, prosperity,...

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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Thorny, A Chicago P.I. who is not strictly legit, meets a woman who changes his life in ways he could never have imagined. What ensues is a fast-paced tale of mob violence, secrets revealed, Polish food, and hot jazz. From Chicago to Milwaukee to Per...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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Long ago, I lived alone in my mountain shanty beside my lake in Maine. The lake provided fish. The forest provided small game and berries. I had my books. I had solitude. I avoided contact with the outside world in Bar Harbor except as I needed food,...