Manhattan as a Second Language and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Harris, Jana

Poetry

HarperCollins, Publishers

Manhattan As a Second Language

HarperCollins (paper)

In Ruby City, a frontier mining camp in 1890s Washington State, Pearl Ryan, a young woman who takes in laundry to save money for nursing school, must find out who is responsible for a series of poisoning murders before the secrets of her own past are revealed. A first novel.

The Pearl of Ruby City

United States

St Martins Pr

" The voice of Jana Harris unique in American Poetry. Whether she is writing about her white and Native American neighbors in the down and out region of the Pacific Northwest she calls Useless Bay , or about herself as the "bad daughter of a bad daughter,"hers is a voice of true grit-sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone,tart and indomitable. Alicia Ostriker (back cover)

The Sourlands (Ontario Review Press Poetry Series)

Ontario Review Pr

Presents a selection of poetry by ordinary women struggling with extraordinary circumstances

Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women

With An Afterword By The Author These dramatic monologues depict the real life stories of pioneer women and children who were stranded and settled along the trails of the great Western Migration. Together, the voice of the local schoolteacher and those of her students and their parents illustrate the intimate, unspoken goings-on in and around the mythical frontier town of Cottonwood. Accompanied by historical maps and photographs, this series of linked poems was sculpted out of years of archival research.

We Never Speak of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889-90

Ontario Review Press

The Clackamas

New York:The Smith/Horizon Press

The heartwarming true story of a woman and the horse who changed her life. Jana Harris had always dreamed of having a horse farm, and she knew the horse on whom she could build her dreams the moment she saw her on a ranch in the Eastern Mountains of Washington State, where a herd had been corralled to be sold: a beautiful, deep dark red-colored mare standing about sixteen hands, with a white star on her pretty head. Something about the way this mare guarded her handsome foal spoke to Harris. The mare was named True Colors. When True Colors was delivered to Harris’s ranch three months later, however, she was unrecognizable: head-shy from the infected sores on her face, and lungs damaged by pneumonia, she sensed demons hiding in everything from the scent of fabric softener on clothes to a gate in a fence. This injured, traumatized horse existed between two worlds—wild and domesticated—and belonged to neither. Remarkably, the other horses fell in love with her on sight. And true to her name, True Colors would never pretend to be something she was not; with her wise, intuitive nature, she would end up changing the lives of everyone she encountered. This is the story of True Colors and how, with her quiet wisdom, she became the heart of the range and farm. There is a famous horseman’s saying: A horse never lies about its pain. But maybe we should also consider: A horse never lies about love.

Horses Never Lie about Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her

Sports & Outdoors

Atria Books

Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed My Life

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Atria

Spanning the years 1853–1933—beginning with conveyance by oxcart and ending with air travel—this series of dramatic monologues tells the story of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson, whose families trekked the trails of the great migration to the West. Helen and Thomas get married, and together, tame the remote corners of the wilderness by means of their imperishable love and a clear, well-beaten path.

The Dust of Everyday Life: An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest

Open Road Distribution

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