Barbara Kingsolver
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c2012 | Harper | 436 p. ; 24 cm. | English |
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[2012], p2012 | Recorded Books | 2 sound discs (17 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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℗2012 | Unabridged. | HarperAudio | 15 audio discs (17 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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[2012], p2012 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 14 sound discs (17 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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2012 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
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2018. | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 464 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2018]. | Unabridged. | Harper Audio | 14 audio discs (16 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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2009 | 1st ed. | Harper | x, 507 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2009 | Unabridged. | Harper Audio | 16 sound discs (19 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2009 | 1st Harperluxe ed. | HarperLuxe | ix, 762 p. (large print) ; 24cm. | English | On Shelf
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"The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"-- provided by publisher.
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c1998 | 1st ed. | HarperFlamingo | x, 546 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2004], p1998 | Unabridged. | Brilliance Corp | 13 sound discs (ca. 16 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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"A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need...
5) Small wonder
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c2002 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins Publishers | xvi, 267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English |
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2002 | Thorndike Press | 387 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects, ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended...
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c1989 | 1st ed. | Harper & Row | 244 p. 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels. In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Barbara Kingsolver uses her distinctive voice and vast knowledge of human nature to address some of her favorite themes: the...
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2013, c1988 | Harper Perennial [2nd reissue ed.] | Harper Perennial | 246, 16 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
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c1993 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins | 343 p. ; 24 cm. | English |
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Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts.
Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee...
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c2007 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins Publishers | 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2007 | Harper Audio | 12 sound discs (14.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle...
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c2000 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins Publishers | xi, 444 p. ; 24 cm. | English |
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Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily...
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c1995 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins Publishers | xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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1996 | ILR Press | xxiii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The...
14) Holding the Line
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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of...
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A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle has captivated readers with its blend of memoir and journalistic investigation. Newly updated with original pieces from the entire...
16) Animal Dreams
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From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world.
At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina,...
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1998 | 2nd ed. | Seal Press | xix, 115 p. ; 23 cm. | English |
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[2009] | Agee Films | 2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Explores the intersection of natural history and human history in the Appalachian Mountain region.
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p2001 | Abridged. | Caedmon | 6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital, Dolby processed ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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