HA JIN is a professor of English at Boston University. His books include A Good Fall, A Free Life, and War Trash. He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has also received such honors as the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, and PEN/Hemingway Award.
65 Ebooks by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley: Nobody’s Horse
Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get a …
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€6.38
Jane Smiley: Private Life
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 a …
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€8.99
Jane Smiley: Ten Days in the Hills
It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. Over …
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€8.92
Jane Smiley: Horse Heaven
In Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and Ca …
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€8.98
Jane Smiley: Good Faith
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is 1982, morning in America, and temptation is everywh …
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€8.98
Jane Smiley: Secret Horse
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 …
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€6.41
Jane Smiley: Mystery Horse
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 cra …
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€6.41
Jane Smiley: Champion Horse
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that S …
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€6.35
Jane Smiley: Star Horse
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. Abb …
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€6.42
Jane Smiley: Year at the Races
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley draws upon her first-hand knowledge to examine the horse on all levels – practical, theoretical and emotional. Drawing on the wisdom of trainers, vets, jocke …
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€8.93
Jane Smiley: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel – at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life. Over her 20 year …
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€11.43
Barbara Shoup & Margaret-Love Denman: Novel Ideas
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by whic …
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€23.99
Karen Karbo: The Diamond Lane
Reluctantly back home in L.A. after 16 years in Africa, documentary filmmaker Mouse Fitz Henry longs for the harsh, teeming jungle life her lens took in so lovingly. Wrenched Stateside by a family em …
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€18.99
Dwight Furrow: Moral Soundings
Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects d …
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€59.17
Kate Bolick & Carmen Maria Machado: March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
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€24.35
Jane Smiley: Sagas of the Icelanders
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 a …
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€8.99
Jane Smiley: Tausend Morgen
Der tyrannische Laurence Cook lebt mit seinen Töchtern Ginny und Rose auf einer Farm in Iowa. Um die Erbschaftssteuer zu sparen, beschließt er, ihnen den Millionenbesitz noch zu Lebzeiten zu überschr …
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€2.99
John Berendt & Dave Eggers: Lonely Planet An Innocent Abroad
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John B …
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€10.31
Steven Amsterdam & Natalie Baszile: Better than Fiction 2
From Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012’s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the worl …
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€8.32
Jane Smiley: Charles Dickens
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES’Engaging and stimulating’ Simon Callow’Jane Smiley, in her admi …
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€3.99
Wallace Stegner: Crossing to Safety
A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.When two young coup …
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€8.99
Jane Smiley: Streuner in Paris
Paras ist ein temperamentvolles junges Rennpferd, das in einem Stall auf dem französischen Land westlich von Paris lebt. Eines Nachmittags stößt sie das Tor ihres Stalls auf – sie ist ein neugieriges …
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€15.99
Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions)
From Washington Irving (1783–1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it. Irving’s c …
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€2.49
Jane Smiley: Dangerous Business
‘I raced through this murder mystery’ Good Housekeeping, 10 Books to Read Right Now!’Smiley is a masterful writer’ Sunday Times’Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime’ Roxane Gay From a brilliant Pul …
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€4.49
Louisa May Alcott: A STRANGE LIFE
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father’s failed ut …
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€12.00
Jane Smiley: Questions That Matter Most
“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 Bo …
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€22.86
Jetta Carleton: Moonflower Vine
The New York Times-bestselling heartland classic. "A deeply felt American family saga . . . dramatic . . . constantly alive." -Harper’s Magazine On a farm in western Missouri during the fir …
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€25.49
Jennifer Reynolds & Luke Reynolds: Dedicated to the People of Darfur
Life’s changes. They happen every day. Some large, some small. A few are very personal. Others impact the world. Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope includes original …
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