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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: Golden Age combines intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, bringing to a magnificent conclusion the century-long portrait of one unforgettable family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: The author explores the high-stakes world of horse racing, drawing on her knowledge of equine behavior, trainers, veterinarians, and jockeys as she relates the story of two of her own horses as they begin their careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.4 SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 798.4 SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: A novel on 1855 Bloody Kansas, an armed clash between slaveholders and abolitionists, often referred to as a prologue to the Civil War. The heroine is Lidie Newton, the wife of a slain abolitionist. Dressed as a boy, she embarks on a mission of revenge against his killer. By the author of Moo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ATANASOFF, JOHN V SMISmiley, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2002
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Summary: Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: Oscar-winning writer/director Max--whose star is clearly beginning to dim--wakes up the morning after the 2003 Academy Awrds with a houseful of guests to worry about; and they all need attention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2015Smiley, Jane.
Summary: Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2014Smiley, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMISmiley, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
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Summary: Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010