Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination and Niagara Falls All Over Again. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to novelist and illustrator Edward Carey.

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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: September 10, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (5255 ratings)
(5255 ratings)
“This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and... Read more
Bowlaway
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Bowlaway
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Kate Reading
  • Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: February 05, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (4651 ratings)
(4651 ratings)
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley. From the day she is discovered... Read more
Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry
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Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Kate Reading
  • Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: February 05, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (897 ratings)
(897 ratings)
The singular, enchanting debut story collection from Elizabeth McCracken, now back in print as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” series, and with a new introduction from the author. Called “astonishingly assured” by The... Read more
Niagara Falls All Over Again
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Niagara Falls All Over Again
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 10, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (1057 ratings)
(1057 ratings)
Sometimes in life, opposites are drawn to each other–somehow, each providing the other with something they don’t have, but desperately need. National Book Award finalist Elizabeth McCracken pens this graceful, moving tale of an unlikely... Read more
The Giant’s House
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The Giant’s House
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
  • Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: December 04, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (5985 ratings)
(5985 ratings)
National Book Award Finalist The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod, 26-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt–the “over-tall” 11-year-old boy... Read more
The Hero of This Book
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The Hero of This Book
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 04, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (1693 ratings)
(1693 ratings)
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & Country A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and... Read more
The Souvenir Museum
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The Souvenir Museum
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Kate Reading
  • Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: April 13, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (1885 ratings)
(1885 ratings)
A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery 29 * Seattle Times * LitHub * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Buzzfeed Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features... Read more
Thunderstruck
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Thunderstruck
  • By: Elizabeth McCracken
  • Narrator: Erin Yuen
  • Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Dreamscape Media
  • Publish date: April 22, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (2014 ratings)
(2014 ratings)
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House comes a beautiful new story collection. In ‘Property,’ a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish a rental house by removing his... Read more

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The Mirror of Merlin Strange wickedness is rising from a remote swamp on the magical isle of Fincayra. To save his homeland, as well as his own destiny, young Merlin must voyage to frightening places–both on the land and in himself. Joined by Hallia, the deer-woman he has grown to love, and by his own mischievous shadow, Merlin discovers a magical mirror that can alter anyone’s fate. But when he looks into it, ... Read Book
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition “Harvey offers surprising insights into the male mentality and gives women strategies for taming that unruly beast.”—Philadelphia Inquirer “Women should listen to Steve Harvey when it comes to what a good man is about. Steve Harvey dispenses a lot of fabulous information about men.”–Aretha Franklin The #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve ... Read Book
When Breaks the Dawn Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges. Just when they’ve made new friends and started a new school, they are presented with a new posting. It seems Elizabeth’s dreams for a family and home of her own are not to be. Will their love for each other, their hope for the future, and their faith ... Read Book
The Grapple It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States, a war that will turn on the deeds of ordinary soldiers, extraordinary heroes, and a colorful cast of spies, politicians, rebels, and everyday citizens. The C.S.A. president, Jake Featherston, seems to have greatly miscalculated the North’s resilience. But as new demonic tools of killing ... Read Book
Love on the Line A Christy Award winner and RITA finalist, best-selling author Deeanne Gist crafts inspirational fiction of the highest order. Set in Texas at the turn of the century, this historical gem finds Georgie Gail as a tough-as-nails switchboard operator trying to make a living in a man’s world. So when the handsome Luke Palmer is hired as her colleague, she’s anything but pleased. What Georgie ... Read Book
The Ruby Circle The epic conclusion to Richelle Mead’s New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series is finally here… Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives. After their secret romance is exposed, Sydney and Adrian find themselves facing the wrath of both the Alchemists ... Read Book
Then We Came to the End This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the ... Read Book
The Sweetwater Island Ferry Collection VIRGINIA In my perfect world I would be selling gourmet donuts, creating art that people loved, be married to my high school sweetheart, live in an adorable dream house … I had big plans for my life once, but nothing was turning out like I thought it would. One day I looked in the mirror and the strong, creative girl of my childhood wasn’t smiling back at me anymore. My aunt must’ve known ... Read Book
How to find freedom and kill your fear Are you looking for one place where you can read everything you could possibly want to know about Malcolm X? Perhaps you have only recently discovered Malcolm X—and the many vital things that he did for race pride as well as black nationalism in the early 1960—and it has inspired you to learn about the man behind the many great actions of that era?Or maybe you already know a little about ... Read Book
No Strings Tangled Up in YouFun is the one thing Elsie Webb takes seriously. Though she’d be having a lot more of it if Haelstrom Media paid her enough to actually get out of debt. She’s determined to hold out on contract negotiations for her kids’ television show Fangley Heights until she gets what she deserves. There’s only one problem, the head of the network just died and left her future more ... Read Book
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