Changing Lives: An Investment in the Mid South (Jan 2008)

Examines the background, accomplishments, impact, challenges, and evolution of the foundation's Individual Development Accounts initiative

Pigs in Heaven: A Novel

When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey, the three find love and wisdom in surprising places.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1276/thumbnail.jp

Another America/Otra America

This powerful collection of poetry deals with protest against political and social repression experienced by ordinary people, particularly women, under military regimes in Central and South America during the last 20 years. Through vivid imagery and compelling messages, Kingsolver makes a passionate appeal to end the suffering of victims of revolution, oppression, and war. The face-to-face bilingual presentation makes for an exciting language comparison for students who speak Spanish, but the poems, charged with emotion, stand by themselves in English.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1281/thumbnail.jp

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1269/thumbnail.jp

How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with how to poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1668/thumbnail.jp

The Bean Trees: A Novel

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.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1272/thumbnail.jp

The Lacuna: A Novel

The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, \u2740s, and \u2750s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century\u27s most tumultuous events.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1274/thumbnail.jp