Fiction by Indiana Authors
Why the Chimes Rang
Raymond MacDonald Alden
Two young brothers from a poor village come to a Christmas Eve service at a church where legend says that only the perfect gift will allow the the chime bells to ring out.
cloth 16 pp. reprint 1994 (1909) / ISBN 1-878208-46-2 / $14.95
Order No. 3116
Cross this Bridge at a Walk
Jared Carter
This is Jared Carter's fourth collection of poems. He continues to tell us about a place called Mississinewa County. His poems reach out to the stories, myths, and recollections of an entire continent.
paper / $15.00
Order No. 2657
The Hoosier School-Master
Edward Eggleston
Written with humor and candor and set in Indiana, in the 1850s, the story relates the adventures of young schoolmaster, Ralph Hartsook.
paper 226 pp. 1984 / ISBN 0-253-20324-4 / $12.95
Order No. 2066
Triple Cross
Kit Ehrman
Heading for Louisville for an all-expense-paid trip culminating in the Kentucky Derby, young barn manager and aspiring private detective Steve Cline takes on the job of caring for a Derby runner for his racehorse trainer father, but he soon finds himself caught up in the greedy, vengeful world of the very rich, trying to stop a murderer before it is too late.
cloth / $24.95
Order No. 2649
Orphant Annie Story Book
Johnny Gruelle
Dedicated to James Whitcomb Riley after the Hoosier poet's death, this colorful book contains many charming tales teaching lessons of courtesy, honesty, and kind behavior.
cloth 86 pp. reprint 1989 (1981) / ISBN 0-9617367-9-8 / $18.95
Order No. 3107
The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, his Almanack, Comic Drawings
David S. Hawes
A collection of the best sayings, humorous essays, cartoons, and drawings, of one of the most popular, fictional, cracker-barrel philosophers this country has ever known.
paper 143 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-253-21007-0 / $12.95
Order No. 2256
Something to Crow About! A Bird's Tale
Suzanne Knoebel
A badly injured crow gets fixed up in the veterinary department of the zoo, and learns and teaches the true meaning of independence.
cloth 56 pp. 1998 / ISBN 1-57860-059-6 / $15.95
Order No. 3121
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor
Edited by Chris Lamb
If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat: if you don't have a sense of humor you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to the Midwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill. This book gathers some of the best stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and Garrison Keillor - Midwesterners, one and all. You'll also find tales from Ambrose Bierce, Kin Hubbard, William Dean Howells, Sinclair Lewis, Mike Royko, Donald Kaul, P. J. O'Rourke, and Bill Bryson. Here is a book to curl up with when the cows don't come home, the crick's flooded, and the fox has bedded down in the henhouse. It'll put a smile on your face and make you glad you don't live in New York City, even if you do.
paper 302 pp. 2006 / ISBN 0-253-21872-1 / $17.95
Order No. 2604
Bears of Blue River
Charles Major
Adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. This is a book for children or adults who love nature and tales of early pioneer life.
cloth 277 pp. 1984 / ISBN 0-253-10590-0 / $20.00
Order No. 2024
paper 277 pp. 1984 / ISBN 0-253-20330-9 / $13.95
Order No. 2025
Uncle Tom Andy Bill: A Story of Bears and Indian Treasure
Charles Major
Relates the boisterous early-twentieth-century boyhood adventures of the narrator.
cloth 344 pp. 1993 / ISBN 0-253-33653-8 / $17.95
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paper 344 pp. 1993 / ISBN 0-253-33654-6 / $10.95
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The Best of James Whitcomb Riley
Donald C. Manlove
A collection of best-loved poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is famous.
cloth 224 pp. 1982 / ISBN 0-253-10610-9 / $20.00
Order No. 2192
paper 224 pp. 1982 / ISBN 0-253-20299-X / $11.95
Order No. 2193
Double-Wide
Michael Martone
Collected for the first time in one volume, the stories in Double-Wide span two decades and the entire state of Indiana. Martone blends history with fiction to reinvent the landscape of places like Preu, Elkhart, Indianapolis, and his hometown of Fort Wayne.
paper 387 pp. 2007 / ISBN 0-253-21890-2 / $22.95
Order No. 2633
Brewster's Millions
George Barr McCutcheon
Comic tale of Monty Brewster, who must completely divest himself of a small fortune by his 26th birthday to gain an even bigger fortune.
cloth 325 pp. reprint 1999 (1903) / ISBN 0-253-33632-5 / $25.00
Order No. 2224
paper 325 pp. reprint 1999 (1903) / ISBN 0-253-21349-5 / $12.95
Order No. 2225
When I Crossed No-Bob
Margaret McMullanThe Sequel To How I Found the Strong
Life as an O'Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O'Donnell means trouble. Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O'Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy's mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell's wedding celebration, nobody is very surprised.
A reluctant Mr. Frank and his new wife take Addy in, and Addy does everything she can to prove that at least one O'Donnell has promise. But one day, Addy witnesses a terrible event that brings her old world crashing into the new. As she finds herself being pulled back into No-Bob and the grips of her O'Donnell kin, Addy is faced with the biggest decision of her life. Can she somehow find the courage to do what's right, even if it means betraying one of her own?
cloth 216 pp. 2007 / ISBN 978-0-618-71715-6 / $16.00
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Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature and Land
Susan Neville
Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility. As director of Butler University's Visiting Writers Series, Neville has had the rare opportunity to converse with such literary giants as Salman Rushdie, Ray Bradbury, and Toni Morrison, and some of those exchanges have been incorporated into this exciting new collection.
paper 2007 / ISBN 978-0-253-21902-2 / $19.95
Order No. 2630
The House of a Thousand Candles
Meredith Nicholson
A romantic, mystery thriller with a handsome hero, duels, ghosts and an old-fashioned shoot-out.
cloth 382 pp. 1986 / ISBN 0-253-32852-7 / $20.00
Order No. 2067
paper 382 pp. 1986 / ISBN 0-253-20381-3 / $9.95
Order No. 2068
Tainted
JD Phillips
"Tainted" is JD Phillips' third book - her latest release. Great Story - as in JD's first two books - the drama, adventure and suspense in her writing gives the imagination of the reader the creative style of her writing.
paper / $15.00
Order No. 2656
Terrarium
Scott Russell Sanders
Imaginative excursion into the future, where humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against nature. A tale of the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.
cloth 276 pp. 1985 / ISBN 0-253-32956-6 / $25.00
Order No. 2271
paper 288 pp. reprint 1995 (1985) / ISBN 0-253-21021-6 / $14.95
Order No. 2167
Love in a Small Town
Betty Jo Schuler
Sam Champion, a math professor, is eager to sell the house he inherited in Browning Illinois, and return to Phoenix... until the redhead next door, Lily Madison, sets her house afire and moves in with him. Lily's not the flake he thought, and small towns aren't as dull as Sam expected.
Purchase of this book includes book plates signed by the author (while supplies last).
paper / $12.95
Order No. 2655
A Daughter of the Land
Gene Stratton-Porter
Kate Bates, the youngest female child in a large prosperous farm family, has been designated as her mother's helper in old age, but defies her parents to attain the dream of owning her own farm.
cloth 339 pp. 1997 / ISBN 0-253-33305-9 / $20.00
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paper 339 pp. 1997 / ISBN 0-253-21138-7 / $11.95
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At the Foot of the Rainbow
Gene Stratton-Porter
Tale of a dissipated Irishman, Jimmy Malone, and his long-suffering wife Mary, and how love eventually triumphs over lies and adversity.
cloth 252 pp. reprint 1998 (1907) / ISBN 0-253-33467-5 / $24.95
Order No. 2312
paper 252 pp. reprint 1998 (1907) / ISBN 0-253-21244-8 / $11.95
Order No. 2313
Freckles
Gene Stratton-Porter
Chosen to guard the timber of the Limberlost swamp, a homeless waif, who was maimed and abandoned as an infant, finds his chance to prove his worth.
cloth 352 pp. 1986 / ISBN 0-253-32471-8 / $30.00
Order No. 2053
paper 352 pp. 1986 / ISBN 0-253-20363-5 / $12.95
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter
Timeless story of an impoverished young girl, Elnora Comstock, growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp.
cloth 479 pp. 1984 / ISBN 0-253-13320-3 / $25.00
Order No. 2056
paper 479 pp. 1984 / ISBN 0-253-20331-7 / $14.95
Order No. 2057
The Harvester
Gene Stratton-Porter
Story set in the Midwestern woodlands with a hero modeled after Henry David Thoreau.
cloth 516 pp. 1987 / ISBN 0-253-32746-6 / $25.00
Order No. 2198
paper 516 pp. 1987 / ISBN 0-253-20457-7 / $10.95
Order No. 2199
The Keeper of the Bees
Gene Stratton-Porter
Stratton-Porter's last novel of a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California that restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.
cloth 515 pp. 1991/ISBN 0-253-35496-X/$27.95
Order No. 2298
paper 515 pp. 1991/ISBN 0-253-35496-X/$15.95
Order No. 2086
Michael O'Halloran
Gene Stratton-Porter
Adventures of an orphaned newspaper boy in his scuffle with life in a midwestern metropolis.
cloth 560 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-253-33021-1 / $27.95
Order No. 2262
paper 560 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-253-21045-3 / $14.95
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Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
The story of a middle-class family living in the industrialized "midland country" at the turn of the twentieth century. Against this dingy backdrop, Alice Adams seeks to distinguish herself. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one of Tarkington's most compelling female characters.
cloth 454 pp. 2003 / ISBN 0-253-34227-9 / $32.95
Order No. 2425
paper 454 pp. 2003 / ISBN 0-253-34227-9 / $14.95
Order No. 2424
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
A delightful novel giving a view of Indianapolis' evolution from a major marketing center to a great industrial city.
cloth 516 pp. 1989 / ISBN 0-253-35875-2 / $25.00
Order No. 2092
paper 516 pp. 1989 / ISBN 0-253-20546-8 / $15.95
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Penrod
Booth Tarkington
Realistic stories of a twelve-year-old boy growing up in early twentieth-century America.
paper 306 pp. 1985 / ISBN 0-253-20361-9 / $12.95
Order No. 2109
Penrod and Sam
Booth Tarkington
The imaginative adventures of Tarkington's ten-year-old Penrod Schofield continue. Familiar characters from the earlier Penrod volume make their appearance. This is a delightfully nostalgic look at Tarkington's turn-of-the-century Indiana.
paper 384 pp. 2003 / ISBN 0-253-21594-3 / $14.95
Order No. 2417
Going All the Way
Dan Wakefield
A passionate and tormented novel about the summer of 1954 as it transpired in the lives of two young Korean War veterans returning to their Indianapolis homes.
paper 307 pp. reprint 1997 (1970) / ISBN 0-253-21090-9 / $12.95
Order No. 2213
Under the Apple Tree: A Novel of the Home Front
Dan Wakefield
A brilliantly effortless novel of the home front in World War II. It's a story of awakening and loss and growth.
paper 342 pp. 1993 reprint 1998 / ISBN 0-253-21196-4 / $15.95
Order No. 2342
New Territory: Contemporary Indiana Fiction
Michael Wilkerson and Deborah Galyan
Collection of eleven of the best short stories about Indiana by Indiana authors, with a cast of characters including James Dean, Johnny Appleseed, Clarence Roberts, and newcomer Jason Moss.
paper 166 pp. 1990 / ISBN 0-253-20595-6 / $9.95
Order No. 2104
Related Issues of The Indiana Historian
paper / ISSN 1071-3301 / $1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies)
Gene Stratton-Porter
Porter was a self-trained writer, naturalist, and photographer. State Historic Sites memorialize her life and accomplishments.
16 pp. 1996 / Order No. 7037
Riley on Riley
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet and superstar of his time!
16 pp. 1995 / Order No. 7031
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