The Bean Trees (32 page)
Authors: Barbara Kingsolver
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THE BEAN TREES
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ANIMAL DREAMS
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Homeland and Other Stories
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FICTION
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
NONFICTION
Small Wonder: Essays
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Holding the Line: Women in
the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
POETRY
Another America
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE BEAN TREES. Copyright © 1998 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: 9780061809699
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Table of Contents
Three: Jesus Is Lord Used Tires
Eight: The Miracle of Dog Doo Park
Twelve: Into the Terrible Night
Thirteen: Night-Blooming Cereus
Fifteen: Lake o’ the Cherokees