Kingsolver, Barbara

American novelist, essayist, and poet, Barbara Kingsolver offers a collection of poems with reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild.

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

Three lives intersect in the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia where they learn lessons of love and nature.

"[A story about] two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it"--Provided by publisher.

Two families, separated by centuries, who live in the same house in Vineland, New Jersey, struggle to cope when life as they know it seems to be crumbling around them. In the present, Willa Knox and her husband suddenly find themselves unemployed with only an inherited brick house that needs repair. Joining them in this dubious shelter is an elderly disabled parent, their free-spirited daughter, and their recently widowed Ivy-educated son and his child. In the past, science teacher Thatcher Greenwood admires the latest work by Charles Darwin but is forbidden to speak of it by his wife and mother-in-law who worry about scandal. His thoughts, and relationship with a woman scientist and a newspaper editor, put him at odds with powerful people around him.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

"[A story about] two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it"--Dust jacket.

Barbara Kingsolver presents a month-by-month chronicle of her family's year-long effort to live solely on the food that they were able to grow on their farm in Appalachia. Also discusses a variety of topics, including the importance of going organic, the use of pesticides, the importance of a restructured Farm Bill, and fair trade. Includes anecdotes and recipes from Kingsolver's nineteen-year-old daughter, Camille.

A novel in which the wife and four daughters of an evangelical Baptist missionary chronicle their family's struggles in the Belgian Congo over three decades, beginning in 1959.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.