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In Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, the Price family's village is forced to evacuate following an attack by nsongonya. What are nsongonya?
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Which of these novels was not written by Barbara Kingsolver?
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Which book is NOT written by author Barbara Kingsolver?
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The four daughters in the "Poisonwood Bible" are:
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In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Taylor and April are awakened in the middle of the night by their neighbors to do what?
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Who wrote Oryx and Crake, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace and The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus?
  
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Who wrote the novel, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs?
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What is the title of Barbara Kingsolver's first novel?
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Of the four sisters, two were twins. What were their names?
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What writer (and which of his/her famous works) inspired the story "Journey into a Dark Heart" in Peter Høeg's Tales of the Night?
(Note: The story deals with a train ride in what was formerly the Belgian Congo. The author him-/herself appears as a character in the story.)
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver, tells a story about a family who decides to try eating locally for a year. 2 members of the author's family contribute to her book by writing passages - why does the third not?
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In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, which of the family's female farm animals made amorous advances toward the author's husband (and co-author)?
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In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver, a certain vegetable became so overabundant in the summer that the Kingsolver/Hopp household returned home to find a bag of them hanging on their mailbox, left there anonymously by one of several local gardeners/farmers trying to get rid of their own surplus.
What kind of vegetable was it?
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Oprah's book club pick for fall 2009 is...
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