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Hamilton Stone Editions is an independent press for independent writers. Author-run, the publishing company is dedicated to vivid writing that probes the hidden realities of the everyday. We value most highly the kind of writing that displays a multifaceted vision. We feature: Reprints of critically praised fiction and poetry; Original fiction and poetry.

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Love and Money    by Edith Konecky
Price: $9.99 USD. 72830 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on April 11, 2012. .

This wonderful new novel by Edith Konecky, author of Allegra Maud Goldman, forays into the world of wealth, family,and love. Witty and broad in peerspective, Konecky takes us on a cruise in delightful waters.
The Ground Under My Feet    by Eva Kollisch
Price: $1.99 USD. 46780 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on November 20, 2011. .

In autobiographical stories and essays, Eva Kollisch, rescued in childhood from the Nazis by a Kindertransport, deals with the themes of anti-Semitism, uprooting, outsiderdom, and search for community. She unflinchingly traces the marks which persecution and exclusion leave on the mind and soul.
Drivers    by Nathan Leslie
Price: $1.99 USD. 79350 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on September 1, 2011. .

This collection of contemporary literary car stories has something for everyone: humor, tragedy, irony, pity, anger, apathy- as well as well-developed character studies and new perspectives on the human condition.
Only Great Changes    by Meredith Sue Willis
Price: $1.99 USD. 101180 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on August 10, 2011. .

Blair Morgan leaves college to fight poverty following a charismatic, but unconventional religious leader. The familiar conventions of the novel of initiation are made new by a convincing female protagonist and a narrative that uses politics as the setting and vehicle of individual maturation, focusing 1960's youth and political culture through finely cut lenses of race.
The Fragile Mistress    by Leora Skolkin-Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 58910 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on May 3, 2011. .

The Fragile Mistress is a dark and penetrating look at pre-1967 Israel and Palestine through the eyes of 14 year old Liana Bialik. After her American father's suicide, Liana's Jerusalem-born mother decides to take Liana and her sister back to her homeland, where her family has lived for four generations. Liana feels overwhelmed and suffocated by her mother and begins to reach out.
Higher Ground    by Meredith Sue Willis
Price: $1.99 USD. 106470 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on January 29, 2011. .

This novel, set in small-town West Virginia in the early 1960's, is richly realized in the complexities of relationships and class. The novel captures the paradoxes in Blair Ellen's quest for understanding of her mysterious friends, a brother and sister who live on top of a mountain.
It Doesn't Have to Be Me    by Carole  Rosenthal
Price: $1.99 USD. 50380 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on April 24, 2010. .

Imagine those dreams in which you're in your old high school, even though the place looks nothing like your old high school. Events seem normal enough at first, but then, suddenly, everyone is using fire poles instead of stairs to get from floor to floor, and you realize you're wearing pajamas. Reading Rosenthal's short stories is like having one of those dreams.
Trespassers    by Meredith Sue Willis
Price: $1.99 USD. 98360 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on March 28, 2010. .

In the late nineteen sixties, West Virginia born Blair Morgan moves to New York City, where she works at Bellevue Hospital and is involved in the 1968 anti-war sit-ins at Columbia University. The novel includes scenes of political protest and personal coming of age as well as life on a rehabilitation ward in the old Bellevue Hospital.


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