Ron Hansen

Ron Hansen

Ron Hansen is the author of eight novels and three short story collections. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, and went on to the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.

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Atticus
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Atticus
  • By: Ron Hansen
  • Narrator: Ron Hansen
  • Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: October 21, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (1422 ratings)
(1422 ratings)
Ron Hansen has won an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for his rich writing and poetic style. Atticus begins in the vein of a contemporary western. As it unfolds, it includes an intriguing murder... Read more
Mariette in Ecstasy
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Mariette in Ecstasy
  • By: Ron Hansen
  • Narrator: Ron Hansen
  • Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: April 22, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2411 ratings)
(2411 ratings)
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling novels of 1991, Mariette in Ecstasy inspires even the most discriminating listener to some degree of reverence. This captivating story of faith and divine madness may move you to examine your own... Read more
She Loves Me Not
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She Loves Me Not
  • By: Ron Hansen
  • Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
  • Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: Dreamscape Media
  • Publish date: November 13, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (116 ratings)
(116 ratings)
Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called ‘beautifully crafted’ (The New York Times), ‘unforgettable’ (San Francisco Chronicle), and ‘diverse and expansive’ (The Washington... Read more
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • By: Ron Hansen
  • Narrator: Sam Freed
  • Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: August 28, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (2390 ratings)
(2390 ratings)
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 and... Read more
The Kid
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The Kid
  • By: Ron Hansen
  • Narrator: Mark Bramhall
  • Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (396 ratings)
(396 ratings)
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... Read more

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Everything to Lose A determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who’s just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her to ... Read Book
Edinburgh Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter ... Read Book
Neglected No More A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY It took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation’s long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, ... Read Book
The Look of Love When Lady Olivia Gosling finds The Book of Love in a musty bookshop, she is most eager to try out its love “recipes” on someone safe. Did she say safe? Well, Beast isn’t really safe, but with her odious guardian about to marry her off to one of his unsavory friends, Olivia needs her childhood friend to fall in love with her . . . fast. If Beast can love her, then any man she chooses will ... Read Book
Down the Dark Streets A shocking wave of mass evictions triggers a national crisis, a media meltdown-and all-out war-in this explosive new thriller.THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA WE LOVE.From coast to coast, American families are losing their homes. Evicted with little notice and tossed into the streets by predatory bankers, landlords, and real estate developers, these once-proud homeowners have invested their lives in the ... Read Book
The Princess in Black and the Giant Problem With a noisy giant crashing around the kingdom, the Princess in Black uses the Sparkle Signal to call ALL her heroic friends together–for the biggest adventure yet. The Princess in Black is ready for her snowy playdate with the Goat Avenger and the Princess in Blankets. It’s a perfect day to build snow monsters and battle them for practice. But just when they’re about to wage battle, a huge ... Read Book
The Last Full Measure As the author of the bestselling Lost Fleet series, Jack Campbell’s name is well-known to fans of interstellar heroics. Now Campbell brings his keen eye for military adventure and political intrigue to a tale that is earthbound, but no less wondrous … In a transformed mid-nineteenth-century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered ... Read Book
To Kidnap a Pope A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state.In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them ... Read Book
Hard Times Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens’s most powerful and unforgettable novels.The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education-feeding the mind while starving the soul and spirit. ... Read Book
The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia Described as the ‘most beautiful princess in Europe’, and a woman ‘capable of arousing profane passion’, this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Ella was born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. At twenty, her marriage to the Grand Duke Serge ... Read Book
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