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"Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdons at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch Walter, who with his wife had sustained their Iowa farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children looking to the future. Only one will remain to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, DC, California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of postwar optimism through the Cold War, the social and sexual revolutions...

Michael Tillman, a middle-aged college economics professor, meets Jellie Braden, the wife of a colleague and it is instant attraction. When Jellie disappears, Michael is ready to travel the world to make her his.

A young woman, Marie-Ange Hawkins, returns to her childhood home in France and marries a dashing young widower, Comte Bernard de Beauchamp. The Comte seems like the perfect husband, but nothing is quite what it seems. After a chilling revelation, Marie-Ange must make a final leap of faith to ensure the survival of herself and her loved ones.

"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 next generation of the Langdon family is facing economic,...

As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

Jack is practically invisible at home, but when his parents send him to Hazelwood, Iowa, to spend a summer with his odd aunt and uncle, he suddenly makes friends, is beaten up by the town bully, and is plotted against by the richest man in town.

Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa -- the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack -- and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and...

An Iowa farmer leaves his land to his three daughters, causing strife in the family, and a strange change in all their personalities.

A police stakeout on a marijuana field in Iowa ends in a shootout, leaving one officer and one drug dealer dead. An autopsy reveals the dealer was not killed by a police bullet, so deputy sheriff Carl Houseman sets out to investigate a local drug lord.