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The Best American Short Stories 2001 (The Best American Series)

13 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 2001

A Wonderful Story Collection
Take a trip around the world with some of your old favorite authors and find some new favorites. From China to Wales, these stories take you around the globe.

Small Wonder: Essays

79 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Perennial, 2003

A thought-provoking book......a place for reflection and solace.
I agree with the reviewer who cautioned to take this book in small doses. I was moved to tears by the second page, and realized I needed to pace myself. On that second page, Kingsolver was describing the story of a lost child in Iraq (who was found)....her point of view was from the parents of this child, and the heart-wrenching terror they must have felt as the babysitter came running towards ...

Pigs in Heaven

177 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Perennial, 1994

One of the best books I've ever read
Taylor Greer never thought she'd be a mother. But, thanks to a bizarre chain of events in "The Bean Trees," she found herself raising a Cherokee child named Turtle. Now six years old, the little girl who was initially so traumatized by previous abuse that she didn't speak has made herself at home with Taylor and her boyfriend Jackson. To Turtle, they are the only parents she has ever known. ...

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

1401 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Amazing!
I started this book after I had surgery as a way to pass time and I regret not reading it earlier. Poisonwood Bible contains the rich story of a family of a reverend, his wife and four daughters. Each daughter brings her own perspective to the novel and I love the language and the plot itself. It rarely had a dull spot that didn't pertain to the plot or development of characters, which in a large ...

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

HarperCollins, 1998

Animal Dreams

155 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

HARPERCOLLINS, 1990

Poetic
I am not a fan of poetry, but I enjoy the poetic way Barbara Kinsolver writes about nature, life, relationships and family. This is a thought provoking novel, touching and real.

The Bean Trees: A Novel

380 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

HarperTorch, 1998

A Remarkable Guide to Life
Taylor is a high spirited and strong willed girl whose whole life has been lead in Kentucky. Taylor had three goals in her life: not to get pregnant, to leave Pittman County, and to change her name. She ended up buying a '55 Volkswagen bug and leaving Pittman County behind. She ends up with the name Taylor which she got from the first town she stopped in. While on the desolate plains of Oklahoma ...

Prodigal Summer

433 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

HarperCollins, 2000

spring is the right time to read this book
I just finished this book, and I learned so much. I am in the process of planting my garden, and will definitely do things differently because I read this book. It is a wonderful fictional read that sneaks in several valuable lessons about ecology and nature. I loved the characters and I wish they were my friends.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

246 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...

Harper Perennial, 2008

food education
A brilliant expose of food production in the US. The light touch makes the information palatable despite the bad news. The 3 writers are honest, keeping the struggle to eat local real. The suggestions are reasonable for most people, allowing the reader to join in the movement to eat local produce again.

Prodigal Summer by Kingsolver (hardcover edition)

1 review
Barbara Kingsolver, 2000

Prodigal Summer
One of the best books I've ever read, by one of the best female authors of our time.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life

1 review
Barbara Kingsolver

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2007

Localvore Experiences
This book traces a year in the life of Kingsolver's family as they adopt and adjust to a diet based on locally produced foods. At the beginning of this narrative, Kingsolver and her family move from Arizona to Virginia, where they have family ties, and where subsisting on local foods will be much easier because of the more ameniable climate. Arriving after gardening season is over, they bide ...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Library Edition
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, ...

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (ILR Press Books)

7 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Cornell University Press, 1996

Women on the picket line and its impact on their lives
Barbara Kingsolver was a young reporter in Arizona when she was assigned to write a story about this strike. Little did she know then that the strike would last for eighteen months, and that this book would be a natural outgrowth of her interest. The book is filled with facts and figures as well as the stories of people who bravely "held the line" each day, picketing against the "scab" workers ...

High Tide in Tucson

45 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Faber and Faber, 2001

Art to Move Mountains (or Hermit Crab Shells)
Kingsolver holds reign neck and neck with Annie Dillard as two of my favorite naturalist writers and essayists. Kingsolver holds her own as a novelist. In this collection of essays, rewritten and expanded versions, in many cases, from what has been previously published in various magazines, Kingsolver's skill and talent as an essayist shimmers with brilliance and sheer entertainment. Even when ...

The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Quality Paperback Books, 2001

3 novels in 1 book

The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver

Recorded Books, LLC, 1994

8 Unabridged CD set. An unforgettable story of love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places, "The Bean Trees" tells the story of Taylor Green, a spirited woman who grew up in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. This commemorative hardcover edition features a new, easy-to-read design and a special, accessible price.

Prodigal Summer

1 review
Barbara Kingsolver

Recorded Books, 2001

Amazing!
One of the best books I've ever listened to. The storyline is fantastic and Kingsolver reads with Southern accents and a powerfulness that only an author is capable of. I highly recommend it. It's long though - 13 disks - but this is because it is unabridged.

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