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  • The Water-Method Man

    by John Irving ...
    “John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.”—Los Angeles TimesFred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • The Cider House Rules

    by John Irving ...
    Adapted into an Academy Award-winning film and one of John Irving's most beloved novels, The Cider House Rules is the story of a kind but complex doctor and the conflicted young orphan he takes under his wing.“A novel as good as one could hope to find from any author, anywhere, anytime. Engrossing, moving, thoroughly satisfying.” —Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22In the quiet, rural landscape of ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 1863 Civil War Diary

    by John Hildreth Atkins, John A. Irving ...
    This is the up close and personal life of a man in the Union Army of the Civil war. This is particularly interesting because our hero talks about everything from the weather to picking up the dead. Though I do not know what his mission was, this soldier even went on a clandestine operation for two months. Very insightful and educational...even for seasoned veterans. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Hotel New Hampshire

    by John Irving ...
    The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.”So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Son of the Circus

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp“His most entertaining novel since Garp.”—The New York Times Book Review“A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.”—The Boston Globe</stron... ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Queen Esther

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award–winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    “A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” —STEPHEN KING, Washington PostI am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The 158-Pound Marriage

    by John Irving ...
    “Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”—The Washington PostThe darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The World According to Garp

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    **Now available as an ebook for the first time ever in America, the bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving—the 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.“He is more than popular. He is a Populist, determined to keep alive the Dickensian tradition that revels in colorful set pieces...and teaches moral lessons.”—The New York Times**The opening sentence of John ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Teacher's Guide for a Prayer for Owen Meany

    Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

    by John Irving, Amy Jurskis ...
    A teacher's guide to the classic coming of age novel, written in alignment with Common Core Standards.For teachers: We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.This ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Setting Free the Bears

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    **“Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.”—**Time“Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.”—Saturday ReviewIt is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Last Chairlift

    by John Irving ...
    John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook