Piggy In Heaven

Piggy, confused to wake up in a beautiful meadow rather than his cage, meets other guinea pigs, Fuzzbuzz and Bubbleberry, who tell him about heaven.

"In a dark and oppressive future, a slave race of pig-men work tirelessly for their cruel human masters--but their true place in this dystopian society is one that they dare not even imagine. But when Oink realizes that the dogma being forced upon his people is covering a repulsive reality, he embarks upon a brutal path of revenge and revelation"--P. [4] cover.

Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption—their new life together begins to crumble. Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and the heart. This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from Barbara Kingsolver, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.

The author of the Blue Kangaroo books offers this tender story that deals with the death of a pet in a heartfelt and reassuring way for younger children. Full color.

In the strange and magical world of the Middle Realms, there are many diverse races of people that inhabit the lands. Humans, elves, dwarves, and many more civil creatures thrive on this planet. However, the different races are often viewed on a spectrum, and at the very ends of it, there are seraphs and demons. One exalted, and one feared. It is often taught that a person can only be either good or bad, and that anything in between isn't really relevant or real. Every race in the middle of this spectrum always strives to be like the angels, who are said to be pure-hearted and loving. Unfortunately, what people ''know'' about these beings almost always simply comes from what they have been taught, or what has been read, rather than based off of experience. It wasn't easy for Dacitrynn, who grew up in a very uncomfortable spot his whole life. Being a crossbreed of an angel and a demon wasn't something that was welcomed in the world, especially since it is forbidden. After a lonely childhood of growing up strange and out casted with the seraphs, it is finally time for Daci's life to change when he is banished from the High lands after a public fight with his step-brother turned nasty. However, even though Dacitrynn no longer lives with the angels, the world below proves itself to be just as, if not even more cruel than his birthplace, and hopelessness soon leaves him feeling defeated. Even if things eventually start to seem better, there is always something stressful that makes its way into the half-demon's life, and at the end of the day, he can only really wonder just one thing: Was there really a place for such a "horrible" creature like him in the world?

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

“A triumphant conclusion” to the spirited Irish trilogy from the author of The Pig Did It and The Pig Comes to Dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Kitty McCloud, the trilogy’s leading lady, would let these words stand, even were she a reviser of aphorisms rather than a “fixer” of great literary works by the likes of Bronte, Hardy, and Eliot no less, by writing “improved” versions of which she makes an outsized bestselling living that affords her the dubious luxury of living in contentious bliss with her husband, Kieran Sweeney, in their ancient, haunted Irish Castle Kissane. For in Mr. Caldwell’s new comedy—well, tragicomedy, in the truly Irish sense—almost nothing seems to be over—disappeared characters rematerialize, romances that seemed dead burst back to ardent life, and even Taddy and Brid, Castle Kissane’s comely spirits, find new meaning in Yogi’s remark as they resolve themselves into much-longed-for conclusions. And the pig, ah yes, the pig! The pig who started it all by rooting up the bones of the past and tipping many lives topsy turvy—that pig goes wee wee wee all the way—er—home.

The arrival of a stray cat at the Pearly Gates brings chaos to a computerland heaven where he is believed to be an emissary of Satan.