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A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a brilliant 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 ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Private Life by Jane Smiley
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer an ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer - a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother cal ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>A Thousand Acres</i>, Jane Smiley, <i>The Strays of Paris</i> is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the ...Show more
The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals - and one little boy - whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one ...Show more
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