Jane Smiley
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"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: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend...
2) Some luck
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
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"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.
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
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In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the...
4) Private life
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Margaret Mayfield needs to get married. In a fit of desperation, she weds an eccentric scientist. As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.
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"Perestroika in Paris is an imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris. Parasis a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified,by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she...
6) Golden age
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; genealogical table ; 25 cm.
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"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
7) A good horse
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
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246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
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Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
9) True Blue
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
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449 p. ; 25 cm.
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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 last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by...
11) Twenty yawns
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Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?
13) Gee Whiz
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
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x, 591 p. ; 25 cm.
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The author celebrates the art of fiction as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems, and discusses the evolution of the novel and the practice of novel-writing.
15) Barn blind
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1998
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7 CDs (ca. 7 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Ellen's family has moved to a new town, but some things, like her love for horses, remain the same. She's learning new skills and challenging herself as a rider, but she still can't stop thinking about Ned, the feisty former racehorse she sees on the ranch during her lessons. In the meantime, Ellen's making new friends and encountering old ones. Most exciting of all is DA, a boy from a riding family who has a spirit of mischief and daring and knows...
18) Riding lessons
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm.
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Ellen shares a secret with Ned, the colt who hurt his leg on his way to becoming a racehorse, but she also realizes that her parents are keeping a secret from her that may take her away from her riding and the horses she loves.
20) A thousand acres
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1996
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13 CDs (15 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents a powerful, mythic story of an American farm family in Iowa.