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1. Demon Copperhead: a novel

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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English
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

2. The poisonwood Bible: a novel

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
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Harper Perennial modern classics
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English
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The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.

3. Flight behavior: a novel

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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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...

4. The bean trees

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Series:
Greer Family volume 1
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English
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5 stars
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Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for...

5. Unsheltered: a novel

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Kingsolver, Barbara
Pub. Date:
2018
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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...

6. Prodigal summer

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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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...

7. The lacuna

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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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.

8. Pigs in heaven

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Series:
Greer Family volume 2
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English
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When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...

9. Animal dreams

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Kingsolver, Barbara
Series:
G.K. Hall large print book
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English
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Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments.

10. Homeland and other stories

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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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...

11. Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.

12. Small wonder

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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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...

13. King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa

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Hochschild, Adam
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English
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"In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a young British shipping company official working in Antwerp, began to notice something that made him suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, the new colony that the Belgian king, Leopold II, had just carved out for himself, they were filled with immensely valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa, they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers,...

14. High tide in Tucson: essays from now or never

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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Thorndike large print Americana
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English
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Twenty-six original essays explore themes of family, community, and the natural world while considering such specific topics as modern motherhood, paper dolls, and high-tide oysters.

15. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

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Kingsolver, Barbara
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous. In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how...

16. How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons): poetry

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Kingsolver, Barbara
Publisher:
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death,...

17. The Bean Trees: Animal Dreams ; Pigs in Heaven

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Publisher:
Quality Paperback Book Club
Pub. Date:
2001
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English
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18. La laguna

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Publisher:
Vintage Espaänol
Pub. Date:
2011
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Spanish
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19. Coyote's wild home

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Author:
Hopp Kingsolver, Lily
Publisher:
The Gryphon Press
Pub. Date:
[2023]
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver and environmental educator Lily Kingsolver collaborate on their first children's book, Coyote's Wild Home. The book takes us into the woods, meadows, and streams of an Appalachian forest where a girl and a coyote pup each have their first woodland adventures. On their separate journeys into the wilderness with a beloved family member, the intertwined paths of child and coyote will surprise and enchant young...

20. Thoreau's legacy: American stories about global warming

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Union of Concerned Scientists
Pub. Date:
[2009]
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English
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