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A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"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 Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girlsMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was kill ...Show more
Champion Horse (Abby Lovitt #4) by Jane Smiley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt
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 Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her hor ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The 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. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, ov ...Show more
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) (C-format) by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy 3 by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have s ...Show more
Nobody's Horse (Abby Lovitt #1) by Jane Smiley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Reading Level: 10-13
Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her fr ...Show more
Secret Horse (Abby Lovitt #2) by Jane Smiley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 10-13
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. But some chores are no work at all, like grooming young Jack. At eight months, his rough foal coat has sh ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The 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. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary ...Show more
Star Horse (Abby Lovitt #5) by Jane Smiley
$13.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Gee Whiz is a striking horse, and only part of that is because of his size. He is tall, but also graceful. He keeps his eye on things, not as if he's suspicious, but as if he's curious. Abby is curious, too, about just how little of the world she has seen compared to those around her. Her brother receiv ...Show more