The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Shrapnel
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99Author of such classic wartime novels as Birdy and A Midnight Clear , William Wharton was one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. However, he was also a very private man?he wrote under a pseudonym and rarely gave interviews?so fans and critics could only speculate how much of his work was autobiographical and how much was fiction.... more...
A Midnight Clear
Newmarket Press 2011; US$ 14.95Reissue of the enduring World War II novel, by the award-winning author of Birdy . Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve, 1944, A Midnight Clear is the story of Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs ordered to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau close to the German lines. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems... more...
A Midnight Clear
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve, 1944, A Midnight Clear is the story of Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs ordered to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau close to the German lines. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation-until the Germans begin leaving signs of their presence. more...
Ever After
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 17.99In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned alive in their van. How could such a thing happen?... more...
Scumbler
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 10.99Know Scumbler in his poignant, hilarious life. Get mad at him and even cry with him. Here's Don Quixote, Santa Claus, and Faust rolled into one "thick shadow" of a man. A joyous sixty-year-old American street painter lives on the Left Bank in Paris, making a living by creating rentable apartments out of the most unlikely spaces. Mostly, however, he... more...
Houseboat on the Seine
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 18.99The title brings to mind a luxury vessel on the most glamorous river in the world, but readers expecting to learn about the high life in France will be in for a surprise. In this charming memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat, along with generous dollops of humor and local... more...
Last Lovers
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableA middle-aged man abandons his corporate life to follow his dream to become a painter. On the way, he develops an unlikely but beautiful relationship with an older woman. more...









