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Barn Blind
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Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *Barn Blind* is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the lengths we will go to… |
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
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Jane Smiley |
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel--and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them--in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary t… |
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A good horse
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Jane Smiley |
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack. |
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Moo
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Jane Smiley |
"Moo U" is a large, Midwestern "ag and tech" school where campus politics and intrigue rule. Smiley has assembled a large, colorful group of characters who will be familiar to ivory tower dwellers: t… |
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A thousand acres
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Jane Smiley |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a family farm in Iowa in the 1970s. It follows the pattern of the tragedy of King Lear. |
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
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Jane Smiley |
From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of… |
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Pie in the Sky
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Jane Smiley |
"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 must deal with the new challenges, both good an… |
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Twenty Yawns
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Jane Smiley |
As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep? |
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Good faith
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Jane Smiley |
New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiast… |
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Golden age
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Jane Smiley |
It's 1987. The next generation of Langdons are facing economic, social, cultural, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War… |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
"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 the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher. |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn … |
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Private life
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Jane Smiley |
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II. |
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Ten days in the hills
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Jane Smiley |
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They… |
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Dickens
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Jane Smiley |
From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he c… |
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Some luck
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Jane Smiley |
Overview: 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary nov… |
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Ten Days in the Hills
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Jane Smiley |
A group of actors, authors, and other Hollywood luminaries gather at he Pacific Palisades home of Max, a fifty-eight-year -old director, the day after the 2003 Academy Awards, whree they watch films,… |
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