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Books by Brad Barkley






Money, Love
A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Brad Barkley
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32218-7, ISBN: 0-393-32218-1

""Filled to the brim with fall-down funny scenes an vividly etched, unforgettable characters." ―Washington Post Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer's porch, the deal about to close. But with each dizzying success comes an equally memorable failure, and Gabe's mother, Gladys, has grown tired of waiting for a life of financial stability. ..."






Jars Of Glass(1st Edition)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Dutton Juvenile
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47911-6, ISBN: 0-525-47911-2

"From the critically acclaimed authors of Scrambled Eggs at Midnight and Dream Factory comes a poignant story of two sisters. Chloe and Shana want the same thing?for everything to go back to normal, the way it was before their mom went to the hospital. But both sisters know that things can never be the same. While Chloe wants their mom to come home so they can be a family again, Shana never wants to see their mother. And while Shana is t ..."






Jars of Glass(Reprint)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler, And Heather Helper
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Speak
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-241489-7, ISBN: 0-14-241489-1

"From the critically acclaimed authors of "Scrambled Eggs at Midnight" and "Dream Factory" comes a poignant story of two sisters. Chloe and Shana want the same thing?for everything to go back to normal, the way it was before their mom went to the hospital. But both sisters know that things can never be the same. While Chloe wants their mom to come home so they can be a family again, Shana never wants to see their mother. And while Shana ..."






Dream Factory(1st Edition)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Dutton Books For Young Readers
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47802-7, ISBN: 0-525-47802-7

"When the Disney World character actors go on strike, teens are hired as replacements. Ella is assigned the role of Cinderella simply because the shoes fit. And every afternoon at three o?clock she gets married to Prince Charming. A perfect dream come true?except Ella doesn?t believe in dreams anymore. Meanwhile, Luke is one of the fur characters (Dale, the chipmunk), and his girlfriend, Cassie, plays his counterpart, Chip. Cassie is per ..."






Scrambled Eggs at Midnight(Reprint)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2007 by Speak
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-240867-4, ISBN: 0-14-240867-0

"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub the Date: 2007. Pages: 288 in Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself) wants. Nothing more than to stay the put; to stop traveling cross-country with her mother. Sleeping in a tent. and abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Meanwhile. eliot misses the happy times he left behind when his father decided to open a camp for kids looking to lose weigh ..."






Alison's Automotive Repair Manual(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Brad Barkley
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-32579-4, ISBN: 0-312-32579-7

"Alison lives in a small West Virginia town with her sister and brother-in-law. As Alison's Automotive Repair Manual opens, her main occupation is mourning her husband, who died in an accident two years ago. Her sister, her friends, and her former boss at the community college have all grown weary of her grief, and beg her to move on. But Alison is paralyzed, maybe partially because she wasn't all that crazy about her husband in the firs ..."






Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Dutton Juvenile
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-47760-0, ISBN: 0-525-47760-8

"Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself ) wants nothing more than to stay put, to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Eliot misses the happy times he left behind when his father decided to open a camp for kids looking to lose weight and find Jesus.When Cal and Eliot meet by chance, they feel an immediate connection.Together they must face their isolation ..."






Alison's Automotive Repair Manual(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-29138-9, ISBN: 0-312-29138-8

"Alison lives in a small West Virginia town with her sister and brother-in-law. As Alison's Automotive Repair Manual opens, her main occupation is mourning her husband who died in an accident two years ago. Her sister, her friends and her former boss at the community college have all grown weary of her grief and beg her to move on. But Alison is paralysed, maybe partially because she wasn't all that crazy about her husband in the first p ..."






Money, Love(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04929-9, ISBN: 0-393-04929-9

"When he mother abandons Gabe's door-to-door salesman father, Roman, for his uncle Dutch, a wealthy and reliable car dealer, Roman enlists the aid of sixteen-year-old Gabe to win Gladys back, embarking on an outlandish odyssey of country carnivals and state fairs, selling tickets to the gullible to see the Death Cars of Celebrities."






Another Perfect Catastrophe(1st Edition)
and Other Stories
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-29147-1, ISBN: 0-312-29147-7

"In the spirit of Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford, these ten chilling, deeply felt stories from acclaimed author Brad Barkley explore the complexity of male friendships and marital relationships. Among the stories is "The Way It's Lasted," in which Billy deals with his crumbling marriage and a visit from his father, who may or may not have cancer and who is desperate to see the reconstruction of Noah's Ark at a nearby church. "Beneath the ..."






Another Perfect Catastrophe
And Other Stories
by Brad Barkley
192 Pages, Published 2004 by Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-3935-9, ISBN: 1-4668-3935-X

"... also to Susan Perabo, to my friends in West Virginia and Maine, and to the editors of the magazines that first published these stories, particularly Staige Blackford, Michael Griffith, and Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda Swanson- Davies."






Glimmer Train Stories, #42
by Susan Burmeister-Brown, Monica Wood, H. G. Carroll, Lois Taylor, Linda Swanson-Davies, Amalia Melis, Robert Chibka, Brian Slattery, Brad Barkley, Kent Haruf, Baruk Bekdil, Jim Nashold, Siobhan Dowd, Linda Davies, J.M. Ferguson, Burmeister-Brown
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2002 by Glimmer Train Pr Inc
ISBN-13: 978-1-880966-41-9, ISBN: 1-880966-41-7

"Gorgeous short stories by established and emerging fiction writers. This issue includes the winners of Glimmer Train's 2001 Fiction Open and Very Short Fiction Award."






Scrambled Eggs at Midnight(Reprint)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Library, 262 Pages, Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-5934-5, ISBN: 1-4395-5934-1

"Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin to acknowledge some unpleasant truths about their parents and form their own ideas about love. Reprint."






Glimmer Train Stories
by Doug Crandell, Greg Downs, Mandy Dawn Kuntz, Danit Brown, Aaron Gwyn, Andrew Kass, Brad Barkley, Ayse Papatya Bucak, Ronald F. Currie, Sarah Anne Johnson, Tamara Titus, Lydia E. Copeland, Michelle Bitting, Susan Burmeister-Brown
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2003 by Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-880966-48-8, ISBN: 1-880966-48-4

"Literary short fiction at its most meaningful."






Circle View
Stories
by Brad Barkley
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by Southern Methodist University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87074-411-2, ISBN: 0-87074-411-9

"The thirteen stories of Brad Barkley's debut collection depict characters haunted bymemory and missed chances, buoyed by humor and a fragile optimism, while ..."






Dream Factory(Reprint)
by Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Speak
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-241298-5, ISBN: 0-14-241298-8

"When the Disney World character actors go on strike, teens are hired as replacements. Ella is assigned the role of Cinderella simply because the shoes fit. And every afternoon at three o?clock she gets married to Prince Charming. A perfect dream come true?except Ella doesn?t believe in dreams anymore. Meanwhile, Luke is one of the fur characters (Dale, the chipmunk), and his girlfriend, Cassie, plays his counterpart, Chip. Cassie is per ..."






Guardians #1
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-182790-7, ISBN: 0-06-182790-8






Guardians #3
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-182795-2, ISBN: 0-06-182795-9






Guardians #3
by Brad Barkley
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-182796-9, ISBN: 0-06-182796-7






Guardians #1
by Brad Barkley
Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-182791-4, ISBN: 0-06-182791-6



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