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Vier geïsoleerd levende mensen in de Amerikaanse Appalachen komen door ingrijpende gebeurtenissen in hun leven met elkaar in contact.

Eind jaren vijftig trekt Nathan Price met zijn vrouw Orleanna en hun vier dochters naar een dorp in Kongo om de bevolking tot het Christendom te bekeren. De onderneming is van begin af aan gedoemd te mislukken. Het gezin is niet ingesteld op de harde, primitieve levensomstandigheden, en Nathans fanatisme en onbegrip voor zijn omgeving roepen gevaarlijke reacties over hen af. Als de kerk zijn handen van Nathan af trekt en de onrust in Kongo toeneemt, vlucht Orleanna met haar dochters door het oerwoud naar de bewoonde wereld. De gifhouten bijbel is een meeslepende familiegeschiedenis en een ontnuchterend verslag van de gruwelen van religieus fundamentalisme in een uitgebuit land tussen kolonialisme en onafhankelijkheid.

"Demon Copperhead," a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Barbara Kingsolver, tells the story of a resilient boy navigating the challenges of foster care, addiction, and loss in southern Appalachia. Inspired by Dickens' "David Copperfield," it captures the struggles of a new generation while highlighting the transformative power of storytelling.

New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and Environmentalist Lily Kingsolver team up to create their first children's book together. On a summer day in an Appalachian Forest, Grandpa takes young Diana camping for the first time, while Coyote pup goes on his first hunt with his Auntie. During this day of discoveries, Coyote Pup learns that it's best to stay away from humans and that hunting is a skill that will take time and experience to master while Diana learns why coyotes are "friends of the forest.

The great diversity of Spain is captured here in a series of breathtaking photographs accompanying a century of travel writing from the pages of the New York Times.

"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 turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—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.

Contemporary fiction. When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. It is a spellbinding novel of heartbreak and love.

Tome, a seemingly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico, is vividly brought to life by Ana Castillo, revealing a place filled with wonders and diverse collisions: past and present, real and supernatural, comic and horrific, and the interactions among Native American, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. With a lively and intimate narrative style reminiscent of a Southwestern Cervantes, the author chronicles two decades in the life of a Chicana family. Central to this story is Sofia, who holds the family together after her husband Domingo mysteriously disappears, leaving behind his signature Clark Gable mustache and gambling addiction. The narrative also explores the lives of Sofia's daughters: Esperanza, a Chicana radical turned television news reporter; Caridad, a nurse coping with heartbreak through alcohol and casual encounters; Fe, a bank employee seeking a better life; and la Loca, whose early "death" and miraculous return have left her spiritually attuned. Castillo masterfully blends the mundane with the miraculous, the modern with the archaic, and the tragic with the humorous, creating a rich tapestry of homegrown magical realism infused with sharp commentary, controlled anger, and a distinct feminist perspective. The greatest marvel of all is the achievement of its creator.

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, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice -- at times comic, but often heartrending -- rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

An enchanting and classic novel of a young woman's voyage of discovery across the Midwest. schovat popis

Discontented with her life of poverty on a failing farm in the Eastern United States, Dellarobia, a young mother, impulsively seeks out an affair. Instead, on the Appalachian mountains above her farm, she discovers something much more profoundly life-changing — a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human novel touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.

The first novel in nine years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a timely novel that explores human resiliency and compassion amidst upheaval. Willa Knox, who has always shouldered family responsibilities, finds herself at middle age with unpaid bills and a crumbling inherited home in Vineland, New Jersey. With her magazine gone and her husband’s college closed, she now shares the dilapidated house with her ailing father-in-law and her two grown children: the free-spirited Tig and the debt-laden Zeke, who arrives with an unexpected baby after a life-altering event. In desperation, Willa investigates her home's history, seeking support from the local preservation society for necessary repairs. Her research leads her to Thatcher Greenwood, a 1880s science teacher facing community backlash for advocating Darwin's theories. As he navigates conflicts with powerful townsmen and struggles with family pressures, Willa and Thatcher's parallel stories unfold in alternating chapters. Both families, despite living in different centuries, confront the challenges of their times, discovering that shelter can be found in the bonds of kinship and the resilience of the human spirit. This brilliantly executed tale captivates readers with its poignant themes of survival and connection.

1959 geht der amerikanische Missionar Nathan Price mit seiner Frau und seinen 4 Töchtern in den Kongo. Die Familie erlebt hautnah die politischen Wirren der Entkolonialisierung, die das heutige Zaire in Gewalt und Chaos stürzen.

Píše se rok 1960 a v Belgickém Kongu to vře. Vesnička Kilanga kdesi v hlubinách džungle zatím působí stejně poklidně jako dřív a život její opuštěné misie rozvíří pouze příjezd amerického kazatele Nathana. Má v misii působit rok a jeho předsevzetím je obrátit na víru co nejvíc obyvatel. V neochvějném přesvědčení o své pravdě však nedokáže vesničanům porozumět a najít si k nim cestu, což se mu ostatně nedaří ani u vlastní rodiny, jež ho na misijní cestě doprovází. Postupně vychází najevo, že pod zdánlivou poslušností manželky i čtyř dcer probublává vůči despotické hlavě rodiny hněv stejně silně, jako se Afrika touží vzepřít koloniální nadvládě. Ve vyprávění se prolínají hlasy jednotlivých protagonistek: každá je jiná a k tragickému osudu rodiny zaujímá vlastní postoj. Přes všechny rozdíly je ale k sobě váže pouto, jež nedokáží zničit ani dramatické okolnosti. Barvitý příběh plný humoru i bolesti, v němž do života obyčejných lidí krutě zasáhne válka a špinavá hra velmocí, vyvolává úžas nejen nad nádherou i nemilosrdnou tvrdostí africké přírody, ale především nad kulturním a jazykovým bohatstvím obou civilizací, pro něž je přitom tak těžké si vzájemně porozumět.

AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW, A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND FT 'SUMMER READ''My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLLS'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAYIn one of the most acclaimed novels of the yea[Bokinfo].

Alles scheint um Willa Knox zusammenzubrechen: Als freie Journalistin steht sie ohne Aufträge da. Ihr Mann Iano verliert seine Professur, Sohn Zeke ist gerade Vater geworden – aber alleinerziehend. Und ihr schwerkranker Schwiegervater schwärmt vom »Megafon«, dem republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten. Am selben Fleck, 150 Jahre zuvor, freundet sich ein Lehrer namens Thatcher mit seiner eigenbrötlerischen Nachbarin an. Die Naturforscherin Mary Treat steht in lebhaftem Austausch mit Charles Darwin, doch in der verschworenen Ortsgemeinschaft wird die Theorie von der Evolution als Sünde angeprangert. Was verbindet diese Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg? Ein viktorianisches Haus, das ihnen über dem Kopf einzustürzen droht – und eine Zeit, in der damals wie heute kein Stein auf dem anderen bleibt. Was tun, wenn uns alle Gewissheiten wegbrechen? Packend, humorvoll, zutiefst menschlich erzählt Bestsellerautorin Barbara Kingsolver von den Verwerfungen der Gegenwart.