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The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver's acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary family in the Congo during a poignant chapter in African history.
The Bean Trees: A Novel

The Bean Trees: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

The author of such bestsellers as The Lacuna, The Poinsonwood Bible, and Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver has been hailed for her striking imagery and clear dialogue, and this is the novel that kicked off her remarkable literary career.
Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver

Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver

Paul Lee Thomas

Introduces the work of American author Barbara Kingsolver and gives suggestions for incorporating it into a reading and writing curriculum.
Flight Behaviour

Flight Behaviour

Barbara Kingsolver

He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies. Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet.
Prodigal Summer

Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

With its strong balance of narrative and drama, Prodigal Summer is stands alongside The Poisonwood Bible and The Lacuna as one of Barbara Kingsolver's finest works.
Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion

Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

This work is an introduction and overview of the author's literary achievements, opening with an annotated chronology of Kingsolver's life, activism, works, and awards, followed by a family tree.
The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the political unrest in the Congo, how the novel views religion and marriage, and how Kingsolver reconciles the demands of art with her belief that writing should support a political cause ...
Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion

Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

This work is an introduction and overview of the author's literary achievements, opening with an annotated chronology of Kingsolver's life, activism, works, and awards, followed by a family tree.
Baby Doe Tabor

Baby Doe Tabor

Judy Nolte Temple

... Donald DeBats, Sally Deutsch, Barbara Dey, Ruth Dickstein, Myra Dinnerstein, Larry Evers, joanna Bowen Gillespie, Erica Golo, Steve Grinstead, David Halaas, Kristen Iversen, Robyn jacobs, Liz Kennedy, Linda Kerber, Barbara Kingsolver, ...
Pigs in Heaven

Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
Small Wonder

Small Wonder

Barbara Kingsolver

In this collection of essays, the 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.
Homeland

Homeland

Barbara Kingsolver

The short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia.
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

Frederic Brussat

A treasury of inspirational readings, accompanied by personal reflections and meditations, features works by Helen Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Thomas Aquinas, and others on such themes as nature, relationships, creativity, and work
The Lacuna

The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the ...
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of ...

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of ...

P. L. Thomas

(Springer, 2009), co-authored with Renita Schmidt. He has also published books on Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Ellison. His scholarly work includes dozens of works in major journals—English Journal, ...
Isabel Allende: A Critical Companion

Isabel Allende: A Critical Companion

Karen Castellucci Cox

... Songer Jamaica Kincaid by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Revisiting Stephen King by Sharon A. Russell Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by ...
Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion

Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion

Silvio Sirias

... Keillor by Marcia Songer Jamaica Kincaid by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by John M. Reilly Toni Morrison ...
Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home

Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home

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How women writers have redefined male,dominated literary spheres to create their own traditions and territories is addressed most directly by Roberta Rubenstein and Amy Benson Brown. Rubenstein examines Barbara Kingsolver's Animal ...
Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the ...

Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the ...

Elizabeth George

Accompanying him are Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, John Irving, Margaret Atwood , Barbara Kingsolver, P.D. James, J. Wallis Martin, Martin Cruz Smith, Alice Hoffman, Pat Conroy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, T. Jefferson Parker, and Robert Crais, ...
Revisiting Mary Higgins Clark: A Critical Companion

Revisiting Mary Higgins Clark: A Critical Companion

Linda De Roche

... Russell Barbara Kingsolver by Mary Jean DeMarr Maxine Hong Kingston by E. D. Huntley Terry McMillan by Paulette Richards Larry McMurtry by John M. Reilley Toni Morrison by Missy Dehn Kubitschek Walter Mosley by Charles E. Wilson, ...
Metro California Media

Metro California Media

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... Williams Department Editors Automotive: Barbara Perkins Business: Barbara Perkins •Entertainment: Larry Croom Fashion: Barbara Perkins Food: Barbara Perkins •Lifestyles: Stuart Kellogg Real Estate: Barbara Perkins Sports Editor: Eddie ...
In Loving Memory of Barbara

In Loving Memory of Barbara

Matthew Wilson

Community nurse came this morning to see Barbara Matthew B/P and stats, taken Barbara still; complaining about her ... week Lynn Cowling willbe coming in Stead- Barbara didn't sleep at alllast Night, because Mark was in and Out ofbed,  ...
Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Elizabeth Ellis

Barbara Barba — Barbara Winslow or I'm a Dutchman! Your health, Mistress Barbara Winslow. Ha, ha! I knew I'd remember it soon. We toasted you after the trial, before I rode back to quarters. Lydia Philbeg, forsooth ! Ha, ha ! madame, I' ve ...
Animal Cells and Life Processes

Animal Cells and Life Processes

Barbara A. Somervill

Barbara A. Somervill, None. Barbara A. Somervill Customers from outside the UK please telephone +441865 312262.
The Send-away Girl: Stories

The Send-away Girl: Stories

Barbara Sutton

Stories Barbara Sutton. Published by the ... Printed in the United States of America 04 05 06 07 08 C 5 4 3 2 I Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sutton, Barbara, I960- The send-away girl : stories / by Barbara Sutton. p. cm.
Kruger National Park and Mpumalanga Rough Guides Snapshot ...

Kruger National Park and Mpumalanga Rough Guides Snapshot ...

Barbara McCrea

Barbara McCrea, Donald Reid, Ross Velton, Tony Pinchuck ... Barbara McCrea, Donald Reid & Ross Velton, 2012 ISBN: 9781405386500 Maps © Rough Guides CREATIVE TEAMUpdater: Barbara McCrea Book Editor: Publishing information .. .
Priscilla Gorilla

Priscilla Gorilla

Barbara Bottner

Barbara Bottner ... Mew York loozo Text copyright © 2013 by Barbara Bottner. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Michael Emberley. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. ATHENEUM Books for ...
Cognitive Development of Children and Youth: A Longitudinal ...

Cognitive Development of Children and Youth: A Longitudinal ...

Herbert J. Klausmeier

... Richard Gargiulo, Patricia Kalish, Selena Katz, Barbara Kennedy, Peter A. Lamal, Daniel Lynch, Richard Marliave, Barbara Marten, Dean L. Meinke, Gregory Mize, Gerry W. Miller, Barbara A. Nelson, Gordon K. Nelson, Winston E. Rampaul, ...
The Dog Collar Murders

The Dog Collar Murders

Barbara Wilson

Barbara Wilson is the pen name under which Barbara Sjoholm has published the Cassandra Reilly Mysteries and the Pam Nilsen Mysteries. Gaudí Afternoon, of the Cassandra Reilly series, won a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers'  ...

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