Unsheltered
Record details
- ISBN: 0062865668
- ISBN: 9780062865663
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Physical Description:
14 audio discs (16 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Harper Audio, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from disc surface. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Performed by Barbara Kingsolver. |
Summary, etc.: | 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, and in the strength of the human spirit. |
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Subject: | Courage Fiction Inspiration Fiction Social change Fiction Science teachers Fiction Families Fiction Dwellings Fiction Vineland (N.J.) Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 24 of 25 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | CDA KINGSOLVER (Text) | 32518144341685 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | CD KIN (Text) | 33420144986818 | Adult Audio Book | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | AUDIO Kin (Text) | 33620139937656 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | CD KIN (Text) | 36058140470119 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN KIN (Text) | 36123137658454 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN KIN (Text) | 36123143014783 | Closed Stacks Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oxford Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 33530143029442 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | C/D FIC KIN (14 cds) (Text) | 34025143050174 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Putnam Public Library | KINGSOLVER (Text) | 33610142797627 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC KINGSOLVER (Text) | 34010143711280 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Author Notes
Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After graduating with a degree in biology form De Pauw University in Indiana in 1977, Kingsolver pursued graduate studies in biology and ecology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She earned her Master of Science degree in the early 1980s. A position as a science writer for the University of Arizona soon led Kingsolver into feature writing for journals and newspapers. Her articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazines. In 1985, she married a chemist, becoming pregnant the following year. During her pregnancy, Kingsolver suffered from insomnia. To ease her boredom when she couldn't sleep, she began writing fiction Barbara Kingsolver's first fiction novel, The Bean Trees, published in 1988, is about a young woman who leaves rural Kentucky and finds herself living in urban Tucson. Since then, Kingsolver has written other novels, including Holding the Line, Homeland, and Pigs in Heaven. In 1995, after the publication of her essay collection High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, Kingsolver was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from her alma mater, De Pauw University. Her latest works include The Lacuna and Flight Behavior. Barbara's nonfiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was written with her family. This is the true story of the family's adventures as they move to a farm in rural Virginia and vow to eat locally for one year. They grow their own vegetables, raise their own poultry and buy the rest of their food directly from farmers markets and other local sources. (Bowker Author Biography)