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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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
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
Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise
Tavis SmileyAccountable examines present-day conditions and the consequences for America. At its core, this book is a tool with which the community can evaluate the successes or failures of its political leaders and of itself.
The Covenant in Action
Tavis SmileyAngela Glover Blackwell, a major contributor to the Covenant with Black America, is the Founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national, nonprofit research and action institute working collaboratively to achieve economic and social equity. She has ...
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie WilliamsThis posthumous edition of Blue Rage, Black Redemption features a foreword by Tavis Smiley and an epilogue by Barbara Becnel, which details not only the influence of Tookie's activism but also her eyewitness account of his December 2005 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
29th Infantry Division: A Short History of a Fighting Division
Joseph H. EwingLeonard C. Tally. Darby R. Tutwiler, George E. Wardenfelt. Richard Tatara. Jr.. Joseph J. Tweed, Earl A. Warfield. Kenneth R. Taubman. Julius P. Twining. Everett C. Warfieid. Jr.. Medford Tavis, Thomas F. Tyler, Allen L. Warner. Sr.. Alfred 0.
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.
Fidgety Fish and Friends
Paul BrightMeet Smiley Shark, Amazing Angelfish, the Jiggly Jellyfish and many more. This is a fun-filled collection of rhymes based on Ruth Galloway's popular series of underwater adventures.
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 ...
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