Jon Hassler
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired from a career of teaching and travels to Ireland in search of the romance she never had time for. And along the way, she not only discovers people she would never have let herself know before, but learns through experience, at long last, that love is unpredictable, unstoppable, and never appears as we dream it will.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The academic life, starring professor Leland Edwards, a man in his fifties who lives with his mother. While infighting with the other profs, Edwards pines for his divorced wife, grieves for his dead son and battles a sexual harassment suit. A character study by the author of Rookery Blues.
3) Staggerford
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Portrays the closely-intertwined and often troubled lives of residents in the small town as seen through the eyes of Miles Pruitt, a much respected high school teacher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Loyola
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Master storyteller Jon Hassler draws us into the vividly rendered, emotionally charged world of Father Frank Healy, a priest hoping to reawaken a vocation that he fears is leaking away. Working at a mission on an Ojibway reservation in Northern Minnesota, Frank unexpectedly encounters his old high school girlfriend, Libby, and is swept up in a gripping drama of temptation, crime, and love that shows him how wounded hearts are healed. This absorbing...