Books with author Allen Smith

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingOne of the Best Books of the Year: New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews The second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, The Guardian, Southern Living, and Kirkus Reviews best book of the year). Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

Andy Ford and Dave Jackson are garbage collectors in the small town of Pepperville. They get paid for hauling people’s garbage away in little red wagons hitched to their bikes. They take the garbage out to Mr. Warner’s farm at the edge of town and sell it for chicken feed. They’re good kids, but some of the older people, consider the boys a menace and a disgrace to the town. They harass the boys and try to force them out of business. The conflict between the boys and some of the older residents make a hilarious tale. You can’t read this book without bursting out in laughter. This novel is appropriate for ages 10 and up.

Spring RainsA short story about an Indian that dreams of a cougar attack, then awakes to the first rain of spring. He then heads for the high country. Where the cool winds blow. A story about a trapper that heads for lower country with his beloved raccoon, after the first fall freeze.The Maria,An 1800 era teenage boy leaves the family vineyard for a life at sea. The eagle and IA poem about a cowboy moving to the city, and driving out to the country to "wait for his ears to clear"

There has been a huge misunderstanding! The kraken has always been portrayed as a vicious monster who massacred ships without an ounce of pity. The legends may have been wrong though! Maybe the kraken responsible was instead just trying to spread joy through hugs. So please join Kolga the Kraken, and her rhyming story of character development through her personal experiences and mistakes she makes. Kolga the Kraken is a fantasy picture book story, with a targeted age range of 3-8 year olds. Krakens are a Norse mythological creature, and the name Kolga originates from one of the daughters of the sea god Ægir and his wife Rán in Norse mythology.

Will and Mara Sterling are already living their dream. After surviving a campus shooting, they both went on to finish college, fall in love, and start a new life together as husband and wife. That’s not to say things have been easy: Will suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and Mara has debilitating chronic pain from her gunshot wound. Despite it all, they feel lucky to be alive and even luckier to be in love. Then a new initiative from the Justice Department offers Will and Mara the chance of a lifetime. The shooter has been rehabilitated and his crime qualifies for a timeline rectification. With Will and Mara’s consent, they can all travel through time back to the original scene of the crime, giving the gunman a chance to put things right.It sounds like a dream come true, but both Will and Mara have their doubts. Timeline rectification—called “time wrecking” by its critics—is at the center of a politically charged debate. Will and Mara aren’t entirely sure where they fall on this issue and the clock is ticking for them to decide. Is it moral to change time for the rest of the world, just to undo one crime? Is it moral to deny the gunman a chance to correct his past crimes? And what if this one ripple means that they never meet . . . or fall in love?Set in 2011, Every Last Minute is the first book in the Time Wrecker Trilogy.