Pigs in Heaven

Pigs in Heaven
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061842214

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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 Bean Trees

The Bean Trees
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061809699

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“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places. This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.

OINK Heaven s Butcher

OINK  Heaven s Butcher
Author: John Mueller
Publsiher: Dark Horse Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781616555900

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"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.

Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061839948

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“An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul.” —New York Daily News From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman’s struggle to find her place in the world "Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from Barbara Kingsolver, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.

Piggy in Heaven

Piggy in Heaven
Author: Melinda Johnson
Publsiher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 1640601651

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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.

A Day No Pigs Would Die

A Day No Pigs Would Die
Author: Robert Newton Peck
Publsiher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-01-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780307574510

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Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

The Bean Trees

The Bean Trees
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publsiher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-04
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1439557608

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Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees

The Lacuna

The Lacuna
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061959677

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New York Times Bestseller • A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and Kansas City Star • Winner of the Orange Prize “Breathtaking. . . dazzling.” — New York Times Book Review “Her best novel yet. . . both epic and deeply personal. . . . This is thought-provoking, and potentially thought-changing, historical fiction at its best.” — Dallas Morning News In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen; from errands he runs in the streets; and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There, in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America’s hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Kingsolver has created a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.