Michael Kimball

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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A God-breathed desire which has come loose from the boundaries of its proper birth gets put back on track through the painful but powerful ministry of disappointment. Through the simple beauty of an allegorical tale seeming riches are shown to be muc...

• Apr-1991
• / Fantasy
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The Girl and The Forest reveals the struggle of young Elisabeth as she seeks to find her own way in the world apart from the constraints of her mother and grandfather. As the euphoria of her new found "freedom" melts away into the rough sea of unfore...

• Oct-1996
• / Suspense
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Late one night, Sal Erickson's best friend calls him outside for a walk by the river. "Who do you trust?" he asks Sal. "Who would you trust with your life?" It is this fateful question that will send Sal's precariously balanced life spinning out o...

• Feb-2000
• / Suspense
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On a beautiful summer day in Destin, Maine, Ellen Chambers watches helplessly as her beloved teenage daughter Moreen marries the worst possible man. Ellen--whose own marriage is crumbling, and who is desperately in need of a friend--knows her new son...

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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This is the way the family got away. They packed everything they could fit into the car, placed the body of their dead brother in the toy box and put him in the boot. Then theyy left Minola and headed towards mid-America. This is the story seen throu...

• Dec-2002
• / Thriller
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A writer, a father, a husband, the owner of a strictly ordered life, Jacob Winter is not a man prone to violence -- until the day he walks in unexpectedly on his wife's affair. Awakening in a small-town Maine jail with no memory of his alleged ramp...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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An intense, heartbreaking novel from one of the brightest and most unusual voices in American fiction. 'Fine, precise and shocking, but how will Kimball follow this incredible debut?' asked The Times in 2001. How Much of Us There Was is Michael Kimba...

• Sep-2008
• / Literary
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Tracing the nuances of a short-lived life, this involving and sympathetically written novel maintains a tone of finely judged tension between laughter and tears. Jonathon Bender had something to tell the world, but the world wouldn’t listen. Howev...

• Mar-2011
• / Fantasy
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Four cousins find themselves swamp deep in adventure as they seek to solve five riddles in an effort to free a rambunctious Siberian Husky from the evil grasp of Reggie - just one of several teddy-bears-come-to-life that make Alligator Bay an intrigu...

• May-2011
• / Gothic
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"Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction."" -Sam LipsyteA husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to...

• Sep-2011
• / Suspense
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There are past events in the lives of almost all of us we wish we could change - especially if the event was tragic, resulting in the death of someone we loved. Such trauma leads to soul-searching, trying to find a reason that makes sense of somethin...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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A potent novel revealing a son's complicated feelings in the aftermath of his abusive father's death. Big Ray's temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions.Yet years later, the adult...

• Nov-2012
• / Fantasy
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Young Timken finds himself in a dilemma: either learn to play the Authorized Anthem of Doursville in a manner acceptable to the Snobbits or continue playing the music he finds in his heart and risk being sent to the Doursville Musical Rehabilitation ...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. MICHAEL KIMBALL WRITES YOUR LIFE STORY (ON A POSTCARD) started as a writing performance -- with strangers lined up to share the intimate details of their lives while he wrote their biographies for them as they waited. In the end, more than 1...