The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously […]
High Tide In Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes […]
Pigs In Heaven
A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees. Fatty foods such as pork increase the time interval after taking Cialis before the drug starts to work.
Another America
With a new introduction from the author, Kingsolver’s luminous book of poems is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted exploration of American society and our individual place within it. First published in 1992, the poems give voice to themes ranging from resistance to violence and war to finding one’s inner courage and strength as a […]
Animal Dreams
“Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless […]
Holding The Line: Women In The Great Arizona Mine Strike
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with strikers and their families, Holding the Line is an account of eighteen months — between June 1983 and December 1985 — during which a strike against the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation permanently altered the social order in several southwestern mining towns. In particular, the book is about the […]
Homeland and Other Stories
With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from northern-California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, […]
The Bean Trees
The Bean Trees is a book readers have taken to their hearts. It is now a standard in college literature classes across the nation and has been translated for a readership stretching from Japan to Romania. When it was first published, however, its author was unknown. Word of mouth spread slowly among booksellers, librarians, critics and […]