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| 1. |  | The Lacuna: A Novel (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $9.25 Customer Review:  I thought she would never surpass Prodigal Summer, but this really a tour de force. I felt I knew the Mexico of Kahlo and Rivera, and the U.S. in WWII and the McCarthy era. The story was always interesting, the characters unforgetable |
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| 2. |  | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Modern Classics Price: $9.72 Customer Review: Barbara Kingsolver's command of languages, especially English, is stupendous. I loved looking at the sentences, the palindromes, the onomatopoeia, the way she makes a sentence sing. Four sister and a mother are taken single file to the Congo by a father and husband, Nathan, to be missionaries... |
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| 3. |  | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $6.00 Customer Review:  I was excited to read this book, having just finished the Omnivore's Dilemma and Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, both of which are very thought provoking, lucidly argued, and well written (though not without their flaws). This book by contrast was cloyingly sweet, sanctimonious, and... |
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| 4. |  | The Bean Trees: A Novel (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Modern Classics Price: $7.99 Customer Review:  After reading The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsglover, this was a real letdown. I was hoping for much more. |
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| 5. |  | Prodigal Summer: A Novel from Harper Perennial Price: $6.74 Customer Review:  Set in Eastern Kentucky (my old stomping grounds), Prodigal Summer follows the lives of three main characters as they confront heady problems like man vs. nature and progress vs. tradition, and stumble through love, death, family and self-meaning. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and appreciated the... |
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| 6. |  | Pigs in Heaven from Harper Perennial Price: $4.98 Customer Review: This is one of my all time favourite novels. Barbara Kingsolver manages to create such deeply convincing characters that as a reader I really do care what happens to them. What I particularly like is that this story gets its tension not from a conflict between a heroine and a villain, but a conflict... |
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| 7. |  | Animal Dreams from Buccaneer Books Price: $24.73 Customer Review: I VERY MUCH LIKED THE FIRST HALF OF THIS BOOK THE SECOND HALF------????------WELL?? FROM ABOUT THE POINT IN THE BOOK THAT LOYD IS A SERIOUS CHARACTER--- THERE WERE TOO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THE BOOK WAS HEADING. WAS IT ABOUT POLLUTION?? WAS IT ABOUT INDIAN LORE??? WAS IT... |
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| 8. |  | Small Wonder: Essays from Harper Perennial Price: $4.80 Customer Review: Remarkably uplifting and poignant essays from one of the master writers of our generation. Her ability to blend natural science, cultural analysis, and celebration of the human spirit is a unique gift to be treasured. |
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| 9. |  | Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World from North Atlantic Books Price: $12.78 | |
| 10. |  | High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never from Harper Perennial Price: $5.34 Customer Review: I've heard Barbara Kingsolver speak and think she's fantastic. These essays are just as good, so clear, touching, and thoughtful. Highly recommended. |
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