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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Soar!: Follow Your Dreams
June CotnerYour Mission Chief Seattle Prelude Barbara Crooker A Life Force Martha Graham Be Bold John C. Maxwell, Elbert Hubbard, Julia Sweeney, Johnnetta B.Cole Find Work You Love Al Sacharov, Dr. Smiley Blanton, Austin Kleon, John C.
A Murder of Quality
John le CarreNow retired from the British Secret Service, former spy George Smiley agrees to do a favor for an old friend and investigates the mysterious demise of the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School.
Essential Readings in Canadian Constitutional Politics
PreviewEditor's Introduction John Borrows is so well regarded within the Aboriginal law community that his scholarship has been cited in Supreme Court cases. The book from which this selection is drawn received the Donald Smiley Prize for as ...
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.
Mystery Horse
Jane SmileyWhen Abby Lovitt gets to work at her family's ranch, she can hardly believe her luck.
The Rich and the Rest of Us
Tavis SmileyThe authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America--what it really is and how to eliminate it now
University of Virginia Alumni News
More editionsJoseph P. Morahan David L. Morris, MD John S. Morris, III Gary S. Nachman David L. Namay, MD Robert A. O'Brien L. West ... Sanders Thomas L. Schildwachter, MD Thomas L. Schneider Thomas O. Schricker Stuart R. Silver Stephen P. Smiley Arnold I. ... H. Anderson, Jr. Robert C. Atkinson William E. Austin John C. Babin, PC Brooks M. Barnes Gary K. Bennett Edward H. .... Lawrence I. Brandes Louis E. Bricklin Steven A. Brickman Thomas W. Brooks Bruce M. Broulik Ross B. Brower ...
Fictional Presidential Films: A Comprehensive Filmography of ...
Sarah Miles Bolam & Thomas J. BolamOther Cast: John Candy (Sheriff Bud Boomer), rhea Perlman (Honey), Kevin Pollak (Stuart Smiley), rip Torn (Gen. dick Panzer), KevinJ. O'Connor (roy Boy), Bull Nunn (Kabral), G. d. Spradin (r. J. Hacker), richard Council (russian President ...
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.
Hard Left: Straight Talk about the Wrongs of the Right
Tavis SmileyA rebuttal of the conservative right presents a wide range of racial, political, social, and economic issues from a liberal perspective
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.
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.
Scarlet Red Roses
Emily Clark SmileyAn elderly lady named Katie spends a devastating morning with her grandchildren reminiscing of her cherished memories before attending a burial service for her late husband.
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