The Bean Trees
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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Narrator:
Critt, C. J.
Series:
Taylor Greer
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HarperAudio 2009
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Unabridged
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"The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." — Los Angeles Times

A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable literary career.

It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.

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Street Date:
5/19/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780061901874
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Lexile measure:
900
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Barbara Kingsolver. (2009). The Bean Trees. Unabridged HarperAudio.

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Barbara Kingsolver. 2009. The Bean Trees. HarperAudio.

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Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees. HarperAudio, 2009.

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Barbara Kingsolver. The Bean Trees. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2009.

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It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.

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