High Tide in Tucson_ Essays From Now or Never - Barbara Kingsolver [112]
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BOOKS BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Fiction
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
Essays
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson
Poetry
Another America
Nonfiction
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Copyright
HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON. Copyright © 1995 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © APRIL 2007 ISBN: 9780061863585
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
High Tide in Tucson
Creation Stories
Making Peace
In Case You Ever Want to Go...
How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved...
Life Without Go-Go Boots
The Household Zen
Semper FI
The Muscle Mystique
Civil Disobedience at Breakfast
Somebody's Baby
Paradise Lost
Confessions of a Reluctant...
Stone Soup
The Spaces Between
Postcards From the Imaginary Mom
The Memory Place
The Vibrations of Djoogbe
Infernal Paradise
In the Belly of the Beast
Jabberwocky
The Forest in the Seeds
Careful What You Let in the Door
The Not-So-Deadly Sin
Reprise
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Barbara Kingsolver
Copyright
About the Publisher