Authors:Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: life, food, year, miracle, vegetable
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060852569
ISBN-13: 9780060852566

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lifeâ??vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Authors:Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Ho
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: life, food, year, miracle, vegetable
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0060852550
ISBN-13: 9780060852559

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck,

Author: Robert Kingsolver
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Keywords: campus, ecology
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-01-08
List price: $71.80
ISBN-10: 0805382143
ISBN-13: 9780805382143

Key Benefit: This flexible laboratory manual contains nearly 60 exercises involving small-scale ecological systems that can be conducted within a weekly lab period right on campus, regardless of weather or resources available. Each chapter explains a fundamental concept, and then gives three separate hands-on exercises that can involve outdoor observation and measurements on campus, laboratory systems, library research, biological collections, or computer resources.   Additionally, calculation pages accompanying each lab walk readers through standard mathematical modeling or statistical

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: novel, lacuna
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0060852577
ISBN-13: 9780060852573

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: essays, wonder, small
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060504080
ISBN-13: 9780060504083

In her new essay collection, the beloved 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.Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author’s belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth’s remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places. Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious,

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: essays, tucson, tide
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-10-09
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060927569
ISBN-13: 9780060927561

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver’s return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, summer, prodigal
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060959037
ISBN-13: 9780060959036

Barbara Kingsolver’s fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel’s intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.