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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. Her most recent novel The Lacuna, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010.

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The Poisonwood Bible

Published: July 2005

This 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.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Published: June 2007

A year in the life of bestselling novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint.

Pigs in Heaven

Published: July 2005

Pigs in Heaven is a spellbinding novel of heartbreak and love.

High Tide in Tucson

Published: July 2005

An engaging and immensely readable collection, exploring her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world.

Homeland

Published: July 2005

Here Barbara Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy and powerful endurance.

Prodigal Summer

Published: July 2005

From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life.

Small Wonder

Published: July 2005

Barbara Kingsolver's extended love song to the world we still have.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Published: May 2008

A year in the life of bestselling novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint.