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  • Some Luck

    A Novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    Series Book 1 - The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America.“Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making.” —USA Today**1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A Novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lidie

    The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, a rousing novel that follows two young women fleeing a divided America: one running toward a dazzling future and the other running from a troubled pastChristmas, 1857. America's future is precarious; civil war looms on the horizon. After her abolitionist husband is murdered in the lawless Kansas Territory, Lidie Newton returns, in mourning, to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sagas of the Icelanders

    by Jane Smiley ...
    In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • A Dangerous Business

    A novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: An amazing “mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello” (The Washington Post).In 1850s Gold Rush California two young prostitutes, best friends Eliza and Jean, attempt to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West—a bewitching combination of beauty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Perestroika in Paris

    A novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in this "feel-good escape” (The New York Times).Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and* ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Questions That Matter Most

    Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

    by Jane Smiley ...
    "Clear, vibrant" essays on reading and writing by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author: "A reader feels smarter just taking it in" ( The Boston Globe).From the author of A Dangerous Business, A Thousand Acres, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, this volume "gathers essays (and two stories) composed with wit, enthusiasm, expertise, and candor" ( Booklist).Long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ordinary Love and Good Will

    by Jane Smiley ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and “one of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love” (The New York Times)—comes two exquisite twin novellas that chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families.In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman’s infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Kiss

    A Memoir

    by Kathryn Harrison, Jane Smiley ...
    Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation.In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Horse Heaven

    A Novel

    by Jane Smiley ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • An “irresistible [and] beautifully braided tale” (The Wall Street Journal) that spans two years in the lives of thoroughbred breeders and trainers—and of the horses themselves—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres“[A] wise, spirited novel . . . Smiley plumbs the wondrously strange world of horse racing.”—People<stron. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Greenlanders

    by Jane Smiley ...
    **From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and "a diverse and masterly writer” (The New York Times Book Review)—comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells the story of a proud landowner and his unforgettable family.Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man Who Invented the Computer

    by Jane Smiley ...
    From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD