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Jane Smiley
Smiley gives readers a magnificant novel of 14th century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about day-to-day life, The Greenlanders is also the compelling story of one family. Echoing the simple…
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From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was…
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A dazzling collection of short stories, including: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'and 'Rip Van Winkle'by Washington Irving 'The Sculptor's Funeral' by Willa Cather 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman…
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Now in paperback, Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.
"Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to…
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The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times * "A robust, atmospheric coming-of-age story." -People
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A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the…
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Louisa May Alcott
Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women
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Neil Nakadate
A book-length study of Jane Smiley. It offers a comprehensive survey of the author’s literary career in relation to her social, intellectual, and creative convictions. It examines her key essays…
Jules Verne
Tells the story of distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to…
In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by…
Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, returns with a luminous novella and stories about the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Smiley returns with a sexy, irreverent novel that dives into Hollywood culture and the dynamic personalities that move in its inner circles in the days following the…
The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Offers the pre-Civil War memoirs of an abolitionist who in 1855 enters the fray between Kansas free-staters and slave-holding Missourians.
Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances…
A Pulitzer-winning author presents a charming, funny, and a bit outrageous exploration of the abiding bond between humans and horses, told with panache, intelligence, and humor.
Set in the world of horse racing, this novel puts us amongst trainers, horse-obsessed girls, billionaire breeders and restless track wives, painting a picture of a world that is passionate…
Elegantly repackaged and reissued to coincide with the release of Smiley’s latest novel, At Paradise Gate is a brilliant novel that delves into the domestic drama of an ordinary American…
This novel tells the story of a group of six friends whose close and longstanding relationship begins to fall apart when two of them are brutally murdered. Suspicion falls on…
A candid exploration of the abiding bond between humans and horses from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary…
"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet…
These exquisite twin novellas chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families. In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman’s infidelity and the lasting, indelible…
With delectable wit and characteristic sensitivity, Smiley presents a fresh, illuminating take on the life of Charles Dickens. She offers interpretations of many of Dickens’ major works, exploring his narrative…
In this sequel to Nobody’s Horse, an unexpected turn of events is about to change Abby’s happy life on the ranch and she may lose the two horses she loves…
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A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life from the 1880s to World War II.
This fourth story featuring Abby Lovitt sees Abby starting high school, and rising to the challenge of riding an expensive, prize-winning horse. From Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley.
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named…
True Blue is a beauty, a dappled gray, and when Abby is allowed to take him to her family’s ranch, she can hardly believe her luck. The horse needs a…
Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she…
This riveting novel from a Pulitzer Prize winner traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
Contemporary writers discuss the process of writing, with contributions from Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Geraldine Brooks, Frank Conroy, P. J. O Rourke, Arthur Miller, Amy Tan, Elmore Leonard…
This year’s volume, featuring 17 new stories selected by award-winning novelist John Casey, continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers.
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An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through…
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"In 1850s Gold Rush California two young prostitutes, best friends Eliza and Jean, attempt to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching…
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES ‘Engaging and stimulating’ Simon Callow
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres makes her debut for young readers with this novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s, where a…
Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university.
From the author of A Thousand Acres comes a suspense thriller. A woman finds two people murdered in the apartment her bestfriend shared with one of the victims. The list…
When Ellen meets Ned, a beautiful colt who hurt his leg on his way to becoming a racehorse, she becomes determined to behave at school and at home so she…
The final novel in Jane Smiley’s masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy.
A Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist explores the power of novels from the perspectives of both reader and writer, inspiring a renewed passion for books.
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A…
A brilliant, evocative novel about two women, Eliza and Jean, who try to find out what happened to the young women murdered in their town, in 1850s California.
