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Twenty Yawns
Jane SmileyWith a story that travels from the boisterous beach to the still of a moonlit room, this debut picture book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley and imaginative illustrator Lauren Castillo is guaranteed to have kids yawning their ...
The Greenlanders
Jane SmileyPulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering ...
Understanding Jane Smiley
Neil NakadateIn this comprehensive study of Jane Smiley's fiction, Neil Nakadate offers insight into the strikingly imaginative and intellectual range of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer best known for A Thousand Acres.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Jane SmileyWith these books and her experience of reading them as her reference, Smiley discusses the pleasure of reading; why a novel succeeds - or doesn't; and how the form has changed over time.
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide
Susan Elizabeth FarrellIn A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transplants the tragedy of King Lear to the Cook family farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. The Lear story is retold through the eyes of Lear's oldest daughter, Goneril, who, in the Shakespeare play, is one ...
Mystery Horse
Jane SmileyWhen Abby Lovitt gets to work at her family's ranch, she can hardly believe her luck.
What I Know For Sure
Tavis SmileyIn What I Know for Sure, Smiley recounts how he overcame his painful history and became one of America’s most popular media figures. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Authoring a Life: A Woman's Survival In and Through Literary ...
Brenda Daly... Una Fay Rystedt, Christina Sanchez, Elaine Showalter, Jane Smiley, Kathy Sotol, John Solensten, Madelon Sprengnether, Jane Tompkins, Roberta Vann, Faye Whitaker, Karl Woelz, Susan Woods, Suzanne Zilber, and Frances Zauhar.
Private Life
Jane SmileyMargaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early.
Some Luck
Jane SmileyThe 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. 1920.
Charles Dickens: A Life
Jane SmileyHere is a fresh look at the dazzling personality of a verbal magician and the fascinating times behind the classics we read in school and continue to enjoy today.
Secret Horse
Jane SmileyWhen eighth-grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there's no place she'd rather be than her family's ranch-even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses.
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
Tavis SmileyThrough his relationships with cultural luminaries such as Maya Angelou and Quincy Jones, and personal mentors such as Rosa Parks, Peter Jennings, and Smiley’s own sagacious grandmother “Big Mama”—not to mention the lumps he’s ...
Some Luck
Jane SmileyLonglisted for the 2014 National Book Award From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On Air
Tavis SmileyTavis Smiley brings us a collector's edition of his thought-provoking and action-guided commentaries from the years 2002-2003, as heard by millions on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Women and Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition
Susan CarlsonShe provides me with a model from which I am always learnmg, Jane Smiley has surrounded me with creative ideas: her energies and conversations provide me with a new way of looking at things. 1 thank Faye Whitaker for accompanying me ...
Racism in Mind
PreviewCYNTHIA WILLETT 12 : THE SOCIAL ELEMENT A PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACIALIZED SPACE AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM In the novel Moo, Jane Smiley depicts various characters adjusting to life at a large state university in the ...
My Journey with Maya
Tavis SmileyIn My Journey with Maya, Smiley recalls a joyful friendship filled to the brim with sparkling conversation--in Angelou's gardens surrounded by her caged birds, before lectures, sharing meals, and on breaks from it all, they sought each ...
A Good Horse
Jane SmileyOn her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later:
Tavis SmileyIn short, the last decade has seen the evaporation of Black wealth, with Black fellow citizens having lost ground in nearly every leading economic category.
And so in these pages Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, ...
Horse Heaven
Jane SmileyIn Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage.
Moo
Jane Smiley. . Stuffed with memorable characters, sparkling with deliciously acid humor, Moo is a rare bird in today's literary menagerie: a great read that also makes you think." --Chicago Sun-Times From the Trade Paperback edition.
Early Warning
Jane SmileyThe second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1953.
Empowerment Cards For Inspired Living
Tavis SmileyTavis Smiley's personal empowerment cards willl help individuals think and decide critically, enabling them to improve their lives and the lives of their family and community.
Mr. Lynch's Holiday: A Novel
Catherine O'FlynnWith the depth, grace, and wry authenticity that have characterized Catherine O'Flynn's previous work, Mr. Lynch's Holiday gives us a story that again shimmers with "the power of good old realism" (Jane Smiley, The LA Times) about love, ...
A Jane Austen Encyclopedia
Paul PoplawskiJane Austen Society. Jane Austen and Jane Austen's House. Alton: Jane Austen Society, 1949, 12 pp. Mainly on Jane Austen and Chawton. . Collected Reports of the Jane Austen Society, 1949-1965. Folkestone: William Dawson and Son, ...
Jane's Harmony: A Novel
Ryan WinfieldJane quits her job, sells her home, and leaves Seattle behind to start a new life in Austin with Caleb, but Jane is not sure she can truly leave the past behind and commit to a new beginning.
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