In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century's most tumultuous events.
In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper ...
Taylor Greer, from rural Kentucky, buys a 1955 Volkswagen and drives west. Along the way, she picks up an abandoned 3-year-old Native American girl named Turtle, and by the time she pulls up at the Jesus Is Lord Used Tire Auto Repair Shop, Taylor is well on her way towards establishing an adventurous new life in the desert land of the Southwest.
Meditative essays from novelist Barbara Kingsolver, on life in the desert, working motherhood, landlocked hermit crabs, and other subjects. A sample: "In my first three years of high school, the number of times I got asked out on a date was zero. This is not an approximate number."
In her first full-length nonfiction narrative, bestselling author Kingsolver opens readers' eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: you are what you eat. The bestselling author returns with a wise and compelling celebration of family, food, nature, and community.
In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces on frogs, crabs, and the Grand Canyon, she conveys an appreciation of the natural world and its connection to ours. A letter to her mother about writing, and one to ...
Set in Appalachia, Kingsolver's very pastoral novel tells the stories of three women who live close to the land. A wildlife biologist studying coyotes is fascinated by a young man with a passion for hunting. An intellectually inclined farmer's wife finds she must stand up for what she believes in. And two elderly country people battle about ...
Turtle Greer, daughter of Taylor Greer of Kingsolver's previous novel THE BEAN TREES, witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam. With a moment of celebrity, Turtle's life changes, and so do the lives of everyone she loves.
Codi Noline returns home to Grace, Arizona to confront both her past and her ailing father. But the town is threatened by an environmental disaster, and Codi also comes face-to-face with some family secrets. This book won the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for fiction.
ACCLAIMED AUTHOR BARBARA KINGSOLVER brings her passion for the wilderness to bear in this striking book. Trained as a biologist, Kingsolver writes authoritatively, and movingly, about the continent's virgin pockets of desert, coast, grassland, forest, and wetland. ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGES: Specially commissioned infrared photographs, taken and hand ...
Barbara Kingsolver's first book--a nonfiction study of an 18-month strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Corporation in 1983 Arizona--is a passionate work of social criticism and a compelling brief for the power of communal effort in bringing about social change.
@2ndlead = Nature photography at its most mind boggling and immaculate; pure artistry that will leave you spellbound @2ndcola = Expensive, but amazing value if you feel the weight of the book! @2ndcola = Chronicles the colourful, often mystical quality of ancient trees, rock formations, cave paintings, seascapes, ruins and botany of the North ...
Relocated from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the first year of the family's experiment. Discarding processed, factory - farmed foods transported long distances, in favour of growing their own food, they set out to prove that a local diet is better for the economy, the environment and the soul. Part memoir ...
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full ...
Celebrating five years of the successful Book Sense program, the first compilation of "must-read" adult and children's titles selected and annotated by trusted and experienced booksellers. Book Sense, the successful national brand representing more than 1,200 independent booksellers throughout the USA, celebrates its fifth birthday in 2004. The ...
Many of the letters collected here are written by the adult children of fathers no longer in their lives. Each expresses the urgencies of the father-child dynamic. Exercises at the end of the collection guide readers through drafts of their own letters to fathers, offering advice toward freeing the imagination and heart for expression.
This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
Employing artificial materials to create simulations of nature, the 18 artists featured in UnNaturally explore the ways in which the boundaries between nature and culture are sometimes blurred. Works by Tim Hawkinson, lnigo Manglano-Ovalle, Roxy Paine, Marc Quinn, and Francis Whitehead play on our nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial past in ...
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