Shelby Hearon

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1976
  • Latest Book:
    July 2014
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Hannah's House

  • Now and Anothr Tme

  • Afternoon of a Faun

    Fifteen-year-old Jeanetta Mayfield finds her life dramatically altered by the discovery that she was adopted, while a young man, Harry James, transforms his life by adopting a new family, Jeanetta's biological parents...

  • A Small Town

  • Five Hundred Scorpions

  • Owning Jolene

    From the time she was seven, Jolene Temple has been a pawn between her feuding parents, each of whom has become practiced in kidnapping her from the other. She has been left emotionally suspended between two philosophies of life: that of her stolid, ...

  • Group Therapy

    Lutie Sayre, a 32-year-old Texas-raised sociology teacher, moves to New York, where she joins group therapy to discover what other people think of her. ``A charming comedy of manners and morals--funny, tender and wholly appealing,'' praised PW. (Aug....

  • Hug Dancing

    With wit and feeling Shelby Hearon takes us into the life and world of Cile Tait, age thirty-nine, of Waco, Texas. A woman of charm and integrity, she summons up the courage to burn her bridges and defect from her marriage to the Grace Presbyterian C...

  • Painted Dresses

    After a long, painful affair and a painful marriage, respectively, Nell Woodard and Nicholas Clark, both in their forties, move toward love via paths strewn with the exasperations of family and the confusions of the past...



  • Life Estates

    Sarah and Harriet have led parallel lives ever since they went to boarding school together. Now in their fifties, they are widowed within three months of each other. Sarah and Harriet gradually come to terms with each other, the men they buried and t...

  • Footprints

    Shelby Hearon's 14th novel opens at a reception for the loved ones of deceased heart donors where, for the first time, Nan and Douglas Mayhall come face to face with the aging preacher who is the recipient of their twenty-two year old daughter's hear...

  • Ella in Bloom

    Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" --New York Newsday), and the ways in which p...

  • Year of the Dog

    When her husband dumps her for an old girlfriend and sets all of Peachland, South Carolina, gossiping, Janey Daniels has to get away -- far away -- for a "sabbatical" year. She flees to Burlington, Vermont, home of Aunt May, her mother's only livi...

  • The Second Dune

    THE SECOND DUNE, Shelby Hearon’s second novel, was published in 1973 and won the Texas Institute of Letters Award as the best book of fiction of the year. Written when Hearon was forty-three and just before her divorce, the novel is seen from the p...

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Shelby Hearon has published 14 books.

Shelby Hearon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Second Dune, was published in July 2014.

The first book by Shelby Hearon, Hannah's House, was published in May 1976.

No. Shelby Hearon does not write books in series.
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