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Actors Theatre fundraiser reels in seafood fans with lobster dinner

Louisville Courier-Journal - Jan 25, 2012
Those who have gone so far as to try to limit their food-buying to products grown, raised or produced within a limited radius of their homes, as author Barbara Kingsolver did a few years ago, quickly realize how many ordinary foods one would have to ...

'Running the Rift' finds hope amid horrors of war

Belleville News Democrat - Jan 18, 2012
By LISA MCLENDON - McClatchy Newspapers When a book wins an award for promoting social justice - in this case, the Bellwether Prize, established by writer Barbara Kingsolver - one might expect it to be heavy-handed or preachy.

Novel Ideas

The Missourian - Jan 21, 2012
The award was established by Barbara Kingsolver, herself a gifted author. Two past Bellwether winners reviewed in “Novel Ideas” were “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” and “Mudbound,” both personal favorites. The newest Bellwether goes to “Running the ...

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The Poisonwood Bible

by: Barbara Kingsolver

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 transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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The Lacuna: A Novel

by: Barbara Kingsolver

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.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

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.
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Small Wonder: Essays

by: Barbara Kingsolver

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.
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