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Paperback edition of Kingsolver's first novel in ten years, which follows the life of a fictional Mexican American novelist from the early 20th century to the 1950s. Takes in true events, such as the lives of Frida Kahlo, Diega Rivera and Lev Tolstoy, plus the WWII and the McCarthy era. Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" has been voted the UK's number one reading group book, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. '"The Lacuna" is a fascina...

Story of a young girl growing up in rural Kentucky who is determined to move away and finds her life changed when she becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl. This American author has quite strong backlist sales from her previous titles, which include "Homeland, Pigs In Heaven" and "The Poisonwood Bible".

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment that occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.Hundred...

This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards.

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New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver pens a stunning emotionally resonant collection of poems her most intimate book ever.

She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago. Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home, to a place now named Cherokee.

In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic political events of the twentieth century -- the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium and its devastating consequences -- here is New York T...

Willa Knox, a former magazine journalist, and her unemployed professor husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and a house that is falling apart. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter.In another century, in the same town, the local science teacher, Thatcher Greenwood, finds himself under si...

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded, the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled fathe...

Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them.

Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical c...

Offering testament to the strength of the human spirit in a novel for troubled times, the Vineland of the present and of the nineteenth century provides the settings for two characters bucking courageously against the norms of their environment.

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded, the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled fathe...

The award-winning, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Poisonwood Bible" returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.

Willa Knox, a former magazine journalist, and her un-employed professor husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and a house that is falling apart. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. In another century, in the same town, the local science teacher, Thatcher Greenwood, finds himself under ...

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded, the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled fathe...