Jane Smiley
1) Some luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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
Series
Last hundred years volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Series
Ellen and Ned book volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Ellen meets Ned, a beautiful colt who hurt his leg on his way to becoming a racehorse, she becomes determined to behave at school and at home so she can have more time at the ranch.