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(0)Jane Smiley
Author
Series
Last Hundred Years A Family Saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley's spellbinding novel also headed bestseller lists for many months. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand...
4) True Blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
