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Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams
Harper Perennial June 21, 1991 0-06-092114-5 / 9780060921149 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
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Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Harper Perennial April 29, 2008 0-06-085256-9 / 9780060852566 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Reviewed by Nina Planck/Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don't raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This field--local food and sustainable agriculture--is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry
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Kingsolver, Barbara Another America/Otra America: Otra America
Seal Pr August, 1994 1-878067-57-5 / 9781878067579 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: This powerful collection of poetry deals with protest against political and social repression experienced by ordinary people, particularly women, under military regimes in Central and South America during the last 20 years. Through vivid imagery and compelling messages, Kingsolver makes a passionate appeal to end the suffering of victims of revolution, oppression, and war. The face-to-face bilingual presentation makes for an exciting language comparison for students who speak Spanish, but the poems, charged with emotion, stand by themselves in English. Mature YAs will see how people cope under conditions of extreme poverty and danger, and will identify with the rich characterizations and profound voices full of courage and the will to survive.
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Kingsolver, Barbara High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
HarperCollins Publishers October, 1995 0-06-017291-6 / 9780060172916 1st Edition Hardcover NF/NF
A highly collectible, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Novelist Kingsolver (Pigs in Heaven) is not one to let her miscellany stagnate; she has revised or expanded many of the 25 essays included here, most of which have previously been published, and yes, there are thematic links in her view of family, writing, politics and places. The strongest link is Kingsolver's wise and spirited voice, animated by poetic and precise language.
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Kingsolver, Barbara Pigs in Heaven
Harpercollins June 1, 1993 0-06-016801-3 / 9780060168018 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good/Very Good
When a young Cherokee tribal lawyer comes to the door to claim Taylor's ill egally adopted Indian daughter, the white woman must face the fact that her stable life is about to be torn apart. The story follows her and six-year- old Turtle across the West as they flee from the threat of separation and e xist on minimum-wage earnings. Meanwhile, Taylor's mother, Alice, leaves he r second husband and goes to stay with her cousin in Heaven, Oklahoma. Ther e she meets Cash, a full-blooded Cherokee, who has been living outside the reservation, but yearns to return to his roots. The richness of Indian trib al life is seen through the eyes of Cash, Alice, and Annawake Fourkiller, t he lawyer. There are some wonderful scenes revealing Cherokee customs and l ifestyles. The stories of the different characters are woven together with humor and sensitivity.
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Kingsolver, Barbara Pigs in Heaven
HarperTorch October 6, 1999 0-06-109868-X / 9780061098680 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee daughter Turtle, first met in The Bean Trees , will captivate readers anew in Kingsolver's assured and eloquent sequel, which mixes wit, wisdom and the expert skills of a born raconteur into a powerfully affecting narrative. Now six years old and still bearing psychological marks of the abuse that occured before she was rescued by Taylor, Turtle is discovered by formidable Indian lawyer Annawake Fourkiller, who insists that the child be returned to the Cherokee Nation. Taylor reacts by fleeing her Tucson home with Turtle to begin a precarious existence on the road; skirting the edge of poverty and despair, she eventually realizes that Turtle has become emotionally unmoored. In taking a fresh look at the Solomonic dilemma of choosing between two equally valid claims on a child's life, Kingsolver achieves the admirable feat of making the reader understand and sympathize with both sides of the controversy, as she contrasts Taylor's inalterable mother's love with Annawake's determination to save Turtle from the stigmatization she can expect from white society. The chronicle acquires depth and humor when Kingsolver integrates the story of Taylor's mother Alice, a woman who believes that the Greers are "doomed to be a family with no men in it" (that she is proven wrong adds a delicious element of romance to the story). Alice's resolve to help her daughter takes her into the heart of the Cherokee Nation and results in an astonishing but credible meshing of lives. In the end, both justice and compassion are served. Kingsolver's intelligent consi
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Kingsolver, Barbara Prodigal Summer
Faber And Faber Ltd. Dec 12 2012 0-571-20783-9 / 9780571207831 Paperback Near Fine
This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tape stry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalac hia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another, and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
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Kingsolver, Barbara Small Wonder: Essays
Harper Perennial April 15, 2003 0-06-050408-0 / 9780060504083 Paperback As New
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: This book of essays by Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible, etc.) is like a visit from a cherished old friend. Conversation ranges from what Kingsolver ate on a trip to Japan to wonder over a news story about a she-bear who suckled a lost child to how it feels to be an American idealist living in a post-September 11 world. She tackles some sticky issues, among them the question of who is entitled to wave the American flag and why, and some possible reasons why our nation has been targeted for terror by angry fundamentalists and what we can do to ease our anxiety over the new reality while respecting the rest of planet Earth's inhabitants. Kingsolver has strong opinions, but has a gift for explaining what she thinks and how she arrived at her conclusions in a way that gives readers plenty of room to disagree comfortably. But Kingsolver's essays also reward her readers in other ways. As she puts it herself in "What Good Is a Story": "We are nothing if we can't respect our readers." Respect for the intelligence of her audience is apparent everywhere in this outstanding collection.
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Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees: A Novel
HarperTorch October 1, 1998 0-06-109731-4 / 9780061097317 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: This debut novel follows the gritty, outspoken Taylor Greer, who leaves her native Kentucky to head west. She becomes mother to an abandoned baby and, when her jalopy dies in Tucson, is forced to work in a tire garage and to room with a young, battered divorcee who also has a little girl. With sisterly counsel and personal honesty, the two face their painful lot (told in ponderous detail). The blue-collar setting, described vibrantly, often turns violent, with baby beatings, street brawls, and drug busts. Despite the hurt and rage, themes of love and nurturing emerge.
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Kingsolver, Barbara The Lacuna
Faber and Faber April 1, 2010 0-571-25266-4 / 9780571252664 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Starred Review. Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee (on the panel is a young Dick Nixon). Employed by the American imagination, is how one character describes Harrison, a term that could apply equally to Kingsolver as she masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist.
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Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Harper Perennial October 1, 1999 0-06-093053-5 / 9780060930530 Paperback Good
In this risky but resoundingly successful novel, Kingsolver leaves the Sout hwest, the setting of most of her work (The Bean Trees; Animal Dreams) and follows an evangelical Baptist minister's family to the Congo in the late 1 950s, entwining their fate with that of the country during three turbulent decades. Nathan Price's determination to convert the natives of the Congo t o Christianity is, we gradually discover, both foolhardy and dangerous, uns anctioned by the church administration and doomed from the start by Nathan' s self-righteousness. Fanatic and sanctimonious, Nathan is a domestic monst er, too, a physically and emotionally abusive, misogynistic husband and fat her. He refuses to understand how his obsession with river baptism affronts the traditions of the villagers of Kalinga, and his stubborn concept of re ligious rectitude brings misery and destruction.
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Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
HarperTorch January 28, 200 0-06-051282-2 / 9780060512828 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
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