Stephen Dobyns
Stephen Dobyns is the author of more than thirty novels and poetry collections, including The Church of Dead Girls, Cold Dog Soup, and Cemetery Nights. Among his many honors are a Melville Cane Award, Pushcart prizes, a National Poetry Series prize, and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His novels have been translated into twenty languages, and his poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry anthology. Dobyns, who has taught at the University of Iowa and Sarah Lawrence College, teaches creative writing at Warren Wilson College.
All Books By Stephen Dobyns
Boy in the Water
- By: Stephen Dobyns
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 22, 2015
- Language: English
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3.39(582 ratings)
Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop’s Hill Academy. But the school year starts off less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school’s history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder.
... Read moreIs Fat Bob Dead Yet?
- By: Stephen Dobyns
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.19(494 ratings)
In the seaport city of New London, Connecticut, and newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank Street. At least he thinks it was an accident. But then he sees a familiar man – who else would wear an Elvis pompadour in this day and age? – lurking around the crime scene. Where does Connor know him from? And why does everyone he knows keep showing up dead?
... Read moreSaratoga Payback
- By: Stephen Dobyns
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 14, 2017
- Language: English
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3.33(127 ratings)
Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator’s license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular senior citizen. But reading, sitting around the house, and making amateur home repairs is a far cry from his past life as Saratoga Springs’ most successful everyman detective. So when Charlie discovers the sprawled corpse of Saratoga Springs’ biggest nuisance on his sidewalk, the ex-P.I. is torn. Should he risk asking questions of his own, knowing he could easily be prosecuted for doing P.I. work without a license? Or should he avoid the trouble and spend his twilight years in peace? Well, the case was practically delivered to his doorstep…
... Read moreThe Burn Palace
- By: Stephen Dobyns
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 07, 2013
- Language: English
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3.53(1254 ratings)
The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It’s a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar. But recently, something out of the ordinary – perhaps even supernatural – has been stirring in Brewster. While packs of coyotes gather on back roads and the news spreads that a baby has been stolen from Memorial Hospital (and replaced in its bassinet by a snake), a series of inexplicably violent acts begins to confound Detective Woody Potter and the local police – and inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the locals. From award-winning author Stephen Dobyns comes a sardonic yet chillingly suspenseful novel: the literary equivalent of a Richard Russo small-town tableau crossed with a Stephen King thriller. The Burn Palace is a darkly funny, twisted portrait of chaos and paranoia, with an impressive host of richl
... Read moreThe Church of Dead Girls
- By: Stephen Dobyns
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 24, 2015
- Language: English
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3.63(2055 ratings)
With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. The Church of Dead Girls displays Stephen Dobyns’ remarkable gifts for exploring human nature, probing the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune, and old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of a seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.
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