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My Antonia by Willa Cather, Jane Smiley (Introduction)
29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics
his 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather’s masterpiece includes the original illustrations by W. T. Benda and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in Ameri ...Show more
Mystery Horse (Abby Lovitt #3) by Jane Smiley
21.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
When Abby Lovitt gets to work at her family's ranch, she can hardly believe her luck. True Blue is a beauty, a dapple grey, and he needs a new home - his owner was tragically killed in a car crash, and no one has claimed him. Her father is wary, as always. But Abby is smitten. True Blue is a sweetheart, ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
38.99 NZD
39.99 (2% off)
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
Private Life by Jane Smiley
28.99 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
Secret Horse (Abby Lovitt #2) by Jane Smiley
21.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | 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
19.99 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
34.99 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
Star Horse (Abby Lovitt #5) by Jane Smiley
16.99 NZD
Category: Children's / Young Adult Books | 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
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Ten Days in the Hills is a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal - and the allure of the movies. 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 las ...Show more
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ten Days in the Hills is a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal - and the allure of the movies. 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 las ...Show more
The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
24.99 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
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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