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Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from...... read more
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Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
Set in Appalachia, Kingsolver's very pastoral novel tells the stories of three women who live close to the land. A wildlife biologist studying coyotes is fascinated by a young man...... read more
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The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
Taylor Greer, from rural Kentucky, buys a 1955 Volkswagen and drives west. Along the way, she picks up an abandoned 3-year-old Native American girl named Turtle, and by the time she...... read more
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Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver
Codi Noline returns home to Grace, Arizona to confront both her past and her ailing father. But the town is threatened by an environmental disaster, and Codi also comes face-to-face...... read more
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Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver
Turtle Greer, daughter of Taylor Greer of Kingsolver's previous novel THE BEAN TREES, witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam. With a moment of celebrity, Turtle's life changes,...... read more
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High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver
Meditative essays from novelist Barbara Kingsolver, on life in the desert, working motherhood, landlocked hermit crabs, and other subjects. A sample: "In my first three years of high...... read more
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Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver
In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces...... read more
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Holding the Line
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver's first book--a nonfiction study of an 18-month strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Corporation in 1983 Arizona--is a passionate work of social criticism and...... read more
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Last Stand
Barbara Kingsolver
From the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Alaskan tundra and the desert Southwest, a dedicated novelist and conservationist teams up with an acclaimed photographer to capture America's...... read more
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Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver
In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces...... read more
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