Barbara Kingsolver. Harper, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-268456-1
Kingsolver's meticulously observed, elegantly structured novel unites social commentary with gripping storytelling. Its two intertwined narratives are set in Vineland, a real New Jersey town built as a utopian community in the 1860s. In the first...
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Barbara Kingsolver. Harper, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-212426-5
With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver (The Lacuna) delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message. Set in a rural Tennessee that has endured unseasonal rain, the plot explores the effects of a bizarre biological event on a Bible...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-016112-5
With this dazzling array of stories, demonstrating a wide range of characterizations, settings, situations and narrative voices, Kingsolver confirms the promise of her astonishingly accomplished first novel, The Bean Trees. Most of these dozen tales
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-015863-7
Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to ""Taylor'' when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Ill. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native with a quick tongue and an open mind is catapulted into a surprising...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author Ediciones del Bronce $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-84-8453-091-6
Codi Noline's return to her hometown in rural Arizona after 15 years of aimlessness reopens old wounds. But a suspenseful love affair and contact with the local community soon allow her to face old ghosts and embrace the present. First published...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author ILR Press $26 (213p) ISBN 978-0-87546-155-7
Several mining towns have grown up around the rich Morenci copper pit in southern Arizona, each ruled to a certain extent by the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation. In 1983, the company tried to freeze wages and deny the miners cost-of-living...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author Harper Perennial $13.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-091701-2
``With this dazzling array of stories, demonstrating a wide range of characterizations, settings, situations and voices, Kingsolver confirms the promise of her astonishingly accomplished first novel, The Bean Trees ,'' praised PW . ``If the...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author Harper Perennial $14.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-092114-9
Codi Noline, her self-confidence flagging after failures in med school and in a relationship, returns home to Grace, Ariz., where she renews a romance, comes to understand her father and worries about her sister, Hallie, who is helping farmers in...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-019965-4
HA beguiling departure for Kingsolver, who generally tackles social themes with trenchantly serious messages, this sentimental but honest novel exhibits a talent for fiction lighter in mood and tone than The Poisonwood Bible and her previous works....
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-017540-5
In this risky but resoundingly successful novel, Kingsolver leaves the Southwest, 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 1950s, entwining their...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (343p) ISBN 978-0-06-016801-8
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...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-017291-6
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,...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author . Harper $26.99 (507p) ISBN 978-0-06-085257-3
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
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-050407-6
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
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Rebeca Cartes, Translator Seal Press (CA) $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-878067-14-2
The citizens of Kingsolver's ( The Bean Trees ) other America are demonstrators whose silent vigil on the eve of Desert Storm defies the ``opera of assent'' to war. They are Nicaraguan peasants whose arrival at voting polls is ``like a pulse,''...
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Barbara Kingsolver, read by the author. HarperAudio, unabridged, 15 CDs, 17 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-0-06-212432-6
Dellarobia Turnbow is an Appalachian farm wife trapped in a loveless marriage. Her life changes when, inexplicably, thousands of orange monarch butterflies descend on the family’s woodland. Some townspeople see it as a sign from God; others take...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Barbara Kingsolver, Read by, Steven L. Hopp, Read by , with Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, read by the authors. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-085357-0
In her engaging though sometimes preachy new book, Kingsolver recounts the year her family attempted to eat only what they could grow on their farm in Virginia or buy from local sources. The book's bulk, written and read by Kingsolver in a...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Katrina Kenison, Editor, Katrina Kenison, Joint Author , series editor. Houghton Mifflin $27.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-395-92688-8
If the 20 stories in this year's collection have any one thing in common, it is their substance and seriousness of purpose. This is mostly a good thing—entries by veteran writers like Alice Munro, John Updike and Annette Sanford, and by...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Camille Kingsolver, Author, Steven L. Hopp, Author , with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. HarperCollins $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-085255-9
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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-
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Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Annie Griffiths Belt, Photographer National Geographic Society $40 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6909-0
In this coffee-table nature book, two ardent conservationists make an impassioned plea for the preservation of American wilderness, from sparkling seashores to pristine deserts. In her moving introduction, bestselling author Kingsolver laments the...
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Barbara Kingsolver. HarperCollins, $24.99 (122p) ISBN 978-0-06-299308-3
The contemplative second book of poems from Kingsolver (Another America) will surprise none of her prose fans with its concerns for the natural world, as well as its optimism. There are “How to” sections (“How to Love Your Neighbor”; “How to be...
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Barbara Kingsolver. Harper, $29.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-325192-2
Kingsolver (Unsheltered) offers a deeply evocative story of a boy born to an impoverished single mother. In this self-styled, modern adaptation of Dickens’s David Copperfield, Demon Copperhead, 11, is the quick-witted son and budding cartoonist of a
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Barbara Kingsolver and Lily Kingsolver, illus. by Paul Mirocha. Gryphon, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-940719-48-4
Making dual picture book debuts, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver and daughter Lily Kingsolver, an environmental educator, dramatize perspectives from two species in a narrative that spotlights coyote and human experiences of the natural...
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