Contains two novellas by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, including "Ordinary Love," in which Rachel, sharing a reunion with her grown children, recalls the love affair that...
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Author: Smiley, JaneSummary: -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
The horses that graze on the verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best.
Genre: Pastoral fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
A woman finds two people murdered in the apartment her best friend shared with one of the victims. The list of people with duplicate keys is two pages long . . . and includes people no one knows...
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Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
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....
Genre: General fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
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...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying.
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a triangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm.
Genre: Pastoral fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:When 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...
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Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:Abby Lovitt has been riding horses for as long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a single one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her not to get...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
"Eight or nine times a day, day after day, men and horses go out and line up and start running, and the next thing you know, you are in mystery-land." So says Leo, a sad-sack gambler with an...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..." From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold...