Kingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: An Appalachian boy braves the modern perils of life in a beautiful, poverty-ridden place he can't imagine leaving. Steered by a teacher and a best friend, he comes to learn how to cope with outside forces.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: "How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred, whether family or friends,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KinKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018