https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/stmarys/rss/search?query=%22Smiley%2C%20Jane%22&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 16:04:42 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756664https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756664Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/756664012BKThe Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newtonenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593802298/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C733246https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C733246Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/733246012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593535011/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C710375https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C710375Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/710375012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525520337/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C676433https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C676433Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/676433012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525520351/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C582964https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C582964Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/582964012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307700346/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C594200https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C594200Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/594200012LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410482990/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C563452https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C563452Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/563452012BOOK_CDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804194105/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C563092https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C563092Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/563092012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307700315/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C477560https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C477560Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/477560012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375862311/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C356920https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C356920Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/356920012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400040612/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C288978https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C288978Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/288978012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780670030774/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C355091https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C355091Fri, 31 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/355091012BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780449907481/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=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: 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 Jean, and inspired by her reading,
especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious.
Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive, but to find their way in a nascent town on the fringes of the Wild West—a bewitching combination of beauty and danger—as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As
Mrs. Parks says, "Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6379691https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6379691Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6379691980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501956805/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=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—she's a curious filly—wanders all the way to 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 meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5645876https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5645876Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5645876980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501956812/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America
Early Warning opens in 1953 with 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 Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth—for some—of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam—leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation. 
Capturing a transformative period through richly drawn characters we come to know and care deeply for, Early Warning continues Smiley’s extraordinary epic trilogy, a gorgeously told saga that began with Some Luck and will span a century in America. But it also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the challenges—and rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times, all while showcasing a beloved writer at the height of her considerable powers.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2032612https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2032612Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2032612980EBOOKA novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385352437/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond
 
A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political—and personal—challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.
Michael and Richie, the rivalrous twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes world of government and finance in Washington and New York, but they soon realize that one’s fiercest enemies can be closest to home; Charlie, the charming, recently found scion, struggles with whether he wishes to make a mark on the world; and Guthrie, once poised to take over the Langdons’ Iowa farm, is instead deployed to Iraq, leaving the land—ever the heart of this compelling saga—in the capable hands of his younger sister.
Determined to evade disaster, for the planet and her family, Felicity worries that the farm’s once-bountiful soil may be permanently imperiled, by more than the extremes of climate change. And as they enter deeper into the twenty-first century, all the Langdon women—wives, mothers, daughters—find themselves charged with carrying their storied past into an uncertain future.
Combining intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, Golden Age brings to a magnificent conclusion the century-spanning portrait of this unforgettable family—and the dynamic times in which they’ve loved, lived, and died: a crowning literary achievement from a beloved master of American storytelling.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2173509https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2173509Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2173509980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101889121/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America
Early Warning opens in 1953 with 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 Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth—for some—of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam—leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation. 
Capturing a transformative period through richly drawn characters we come to know and care deeply for, Early Warning continues Smiley’s extraordinary epic trilogy, a gorgeously told saga that began with Some Luck and will span a century in America. But it also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the challenges—and rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times, all while showcasing a beloved writer at the height of her considerable powers.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2032151https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2032151Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2032151980EAUDIOBOOKA novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101889084/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the much-anticipated final volume in the acclaimed The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, following Some Luck and Early Warning. A richly absorbing new novel that is “a monumental portrait of an American family and an American century…. Smiley’s plot is a marvel of intricacy that’s full of surprises.” —Los Angeles Times

It’s 1987, and the next generation of Langdons is facing economic, social, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes worlds of government and finance—but their fiercest enemies may be closer to home. Charlie, the charmer, struggles to find his way; Guthrie is deployed to Iraq, leaving the Iowa family farm in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity—who, as always, has her own ideas. Determined to help preserve the planet, she worries that her family farm’s land is imperiled, and not only by the extremes of climate change.
Moving seamlessly from the power-brokered 1980s and the scandal-ridden ‘90s to our own present moment and beyond, Golden Age combines intimate drama, emotional suspense, and an intricate view of history, bringing to a magnificent conclusion the epic trilogy of one unforgettable family.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2198332https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2198332Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2198332980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385352444/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=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 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 novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1681852https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1681852Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1681852980EBOOKA novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385350396/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America. 
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.   
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1531132https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1531132Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1531132980EAUDIOBOOKA novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804194136/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=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 of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.
“A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart.... The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy.” —The Washington Post Book World]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C514463https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C514463Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/514463980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307787712/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest" (The New York Times).

In this darkly satirical send-up of academia and the Midwest, we are introduced to Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the study of agriculture. Amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, Moo’s campus churns with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Monahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. Wonderfully written and masterfully plotted, Moo gives us a wickedly funny slice of life.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C621117https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C621117Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/621117980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307805294/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=buyers’ heads—and Abby knows Daddy won’t turn down a good offer.
Then a letter arrives from a private investigator, and suddenly Abby stands to lose not one horse but two. The letter states that Jack’s mare may have been sold to the Lovitts as stolen goods. A mystery unfolds, more surprising than Abby could ever expect. Will she lose her beloved Jack to his rightful owners?
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley raises horses of her own, and her affection and expertise shine through in this inviting horse novel for young readers, set in 1960s California horse country and featuring characters from The Georges and the Jewels.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C472079https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C472079Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/472079980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375894152/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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 a “masterly…compelling depiction of a singular woman,” (The New Yorker), from her childhood in post–Civil War Missouri to California in the throes of World War II. 

Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one Margaret Mayfield. When Margaret marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early at the age of twenty-seven, she narrowly avoids condemning herself to life as an old maid. Instead, knowing little about marriage and even less about her husband, she moves with Andrew to his naval base in California. Margaret stands by Andrew during tragedies both historical and personal, but as World War II approaches and the secrets of her husband’s scientific and academic past begin to surface, she is forced to reconsider the life she had so carefully constructed. 
 
A riveting and nuanced novel of marriage and family, Private Life reveals the mysteries of intimacy and the anonymity that endures even in lives lived side by side.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C334984https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C334984Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/334984980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307593788/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a brilliant literary thriller set in Manhattan that’s “as taut and chilling as anything Hitchcock put on film" (San Francisco Chronicle). “A first-rate cliffhanger.” —The New York Times Book Review

Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York’s erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with approximately fifty key-holders. One sunny day, Alice enters the apartment and finds two of the band members shot dead. As the double-murder sends waves of shock through their lives, this group of friends begins to unravel, and dangerous secrets are revealed one by one. When Alice begins to notice things amiss in her own apartment, the tension breaks out as it occurs to her that she is not the only person with a key, and she may not get a chance to change the locks.
Jane Smiley applies her distinctive rendering of time, place, and the enigmatic intricacies of personal relationships to the twists and turns of suspense. The result is a thriller that will keep readers guessing up to its final, shocking conclusion.]]>https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C480134https://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C480134Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://stmarys.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/480134980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307758774/MC.GIF&client=strtp&type=xw12&oclc=