Author: Carmen Wolf
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introducing our hauntingly stylish cross stitch pattern, "The Grinning Specter." This macabre masterpiece is a tribute to the otherworldly charm of the afterlife. Our skeletal figure, with a malevolent grin etched upon its skull, exudes a sinister sophistication. Draped in tattered finery, featuring a dilapidated shirt, disheveled bow tie, and decaying jacket, this figure is the epitome of dark allure. Topping off this eerie ensemble is a towering top hat, adorned with withered, long-forgotten flowers in the brim. Against a backdrop of swirling oranges, shimmering golds, muted grays, and deep browns, "The Grinning Specter" invites you to embrace the enigmatic beauty of the beyond. Whether you're a seasoned cross-stitch enthusiast or a newcomer to the craft, "The Grinning Specter" offers a bewitching challenge suitable for all skill levels. This pattern invites you to embark on a stitching journey into the realms of the mysterious and the macabre. Transform your needlework into a piece of darkly enchanting art that will captivate and chill those who behold it. Discover the allure of the afterlife and the timeless elegance of the departed with "Eternal Elegance." Add it to your collection today and let your creative spirit dance with the shadows as you bring this captivating design to life, one stitch at a time. Design Size: 262w x 360h stitches Types of Stitches: Full stitches only, no half or quarter stitches, no backstitching Level of Difficulty: Advanced Sewn Design Size: 14 count: 18.71 x 25.71 inches - 475mm x 653mm 18 count: 14.56 x 20.00 inches - 370mm x 508mm 20 count: 13.10 x 18.00 inches - 333mm x 457mm 22 count: 11.91 x 16.36 inches - 302mm x 416mm Fabric size necessary for design: Add six inches to both length and width (3" on each side) Number of floss colors in the design: 93 (DMC cotton floss) No blended colors. Advanced cross stitch instructions and a floss amount conversion chart are included in the pattern. Stitching your masterpiece has never been more enjoyable than with Serenity Stitchworks! Whether you're passionate about a particular artist, fascinated by an artistic movement or looking to add some more personality to your home, we're guaranteed to have the perfect cross-stitch pattern chart for you. We have hundreds of cross-stitch designs ranging from fine art, vintage, home décor and so much more. Visit us at www.SerenityStitchworks.com to see all we have available. Serenity Stitchworks is a dedicated mother/daughter team with plenty of experience when it comes to needlework and the creation of art. We've made it our goal to provide you with beautiful and original counted-cross-stitch designs not found in other portfolios. Every design has been developed just for you! Become a member of the Serenity Stitchworks Community and receive tips, tricks, fun facts and free cross stitch patterns. Go to www.SerenityStitchworks.com and sign up today.
The Grinning Specter Cross Stitch Pattern
Author: Carmen Wolf
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introducing our hauntingly stylish cross stitch pattern, "The Grinning Specter." This macabre masterpiece is a tribute to the otherworldly charm of the afterlife. Our skeletal figure, with a malevolent grin etched upon its skull, exudes a sinister sophistication. Draped in tattered finery, featuring a dilapidated shirt, disheveled bow tie, and decaying jacket, this figure is the epitome of dark allure. Topping off this eerie ensemble is a towering top hat, adorned with withered, long-forgotten flowers in the brim. Against a backdrop of swirling oranges, shimmering golds, muted grays, and deep browns, "The Grinning Specter" invites you to embrace the enigmatic beauty of the beyond. Whether you're a seasoned cross-stitch enthusiast or a newcomer to the craft, "The Grinning Specter" offers a bewitching challenge suitable for all skill levels. This pattern invites you to embark on a stitching journey into the realms of the mysterious and the macabre. Transform your needlework into a piece of darkly enchanting art that will captivate and chill those who behold it. Discover the allure of the afterlife and the timeless elegance of the departed with "Eternal Elegance." Add it to your collection today and let your creative spirit dance with the shadows as you bring this captivating design to life, one stitch at a time. Design Size: 262w x 360h stitches Types of Stitches: Full stitches only, no half or quarter stitches, no backstitching Level of Difficulty: Advanced Sewn Design Size: 14 count: 18.71 x 25.71 inches - 475mm x 653mm 18 count: 14.56 x 20.00 inches - 370mm x 508mm 20 count: 13.10 x 18.00 inches - 333mm x 457mm 22 count: 11.91 x 16.36 inches - 302mm x 416mm Fabric size necessary for design: Add six inches to both length and width (3" on each side) Number of floss colors in the design: 93 (DMC cotton floss) No blended colors. Advanced cross stitch instructions and a floss amount conversion chart are included in the pattern. Stitching your masterpiece has never been more enjoyable than with Serenity Stitchworks! Whether you're passionate about a particular artist, fascinated by an artistic movement or looking to add some more personality to your home, we're guaranteed to have the perfect cross-stitch pattern chart for you. We have hundreds of cross-stitch designs ranging from fine art, vintage, home décor and so much more. Visit us at www.SerenityStitchworks.com to see all we have available. Serenity Stitchworks is a dedicated mother/daughter team with plenty of experience when it comes to needlework and the creation of art. We've made it our goal to provide you with beautiful and original counted-cross-stitch designs not found in other portfolios. Every design has been developed just for you! Become a member of the Serenity Stitchworks Community and receive tips, tricks, fun facts and free cross stitch patterns. Go to www.SerenityStitchworks.com and sign up today.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introducing our hauntingly stylish cross stitch pattern, "The Grinning Specter." This macabre masterpiece is a tribute to the otherworldly charm of the afterlife. Our skeletal figure, with a malevolent grin etched upon its skull, exudes a sinister sophistication. Draped in tattered finery, featuring a dilapidated shirt, disheveled bow tie, and decaying jacket, this figure is the epitome of dark allure. Topping off this eerie ensemble is a towering top hat, adorned with withered, long-forgotten flowers in the brim. Against a backdrop of swirling oranges, shimmering golds, muted grays, and deep browns, "The Grinning Specter" invites you to embrace the enigmatic beauty of the beyond. Whether you're a seasoned cross-stitch enthusiast or a newcomer to the craft, "The Grinning Specter" offers a bewitching challenge suitable for all skill levels. This pattern invites you to embark on a stitching journey into the realms of the mysterious and the macabre. Transform your needlework into a piece of darkly enchanting art that will captivate and chill those who behold it. Discover the allure of the afterlife and the timeless elegance of the departed with "Eternal Elegance." Add it to your collection today and let your creative spirit dance with the shadows as you bring this captivating design to life, one stitch at a time. Design Size: 262w x 360h stitches Types of Stitches: Full stitches only, no half or quarter stitches, no backstitching Level of Difficulty: Advanced Sewn Design Size: 14 count: 18.71 x 25.71 inches - 475mm x 653mm 18 count: 14.56 x 20.00 inches - 370mm x 508mm 20 count: 13.10 x 18.00 inches - 333mm x 457mm 22 count: 11.91 x 16.36 inches - 302mm x 416mm Fabric size necessary for design: Add six inches to both length and width (3" on each side) Number of floss colors in the design: 93 (DMC cotton floss) No blended colors. Advanced cross stitch instructions and a floss amount conversion chart are included in the pattern. Stitching your masterpiece has never been more enjoyable than with Serenity Stitchworks! Whether you're passionate about a particular artist, fascinated by an artistic movement or looking to add some more personality to your home, we're guaranteed to have the perfect cross-stitch pattern chart for you. We have hundreds of cross-stitch designs ranging from fine art, vintage, home décor and so much more. Visit us at www.SerenityStitchworks.com to see all we have available. Serenity Stitchworks is a dedicated mother/daughter team with plenty of experience when it comes to needlework and the creation of art. We've made it our goal to provide you with beautiful and original counted-cross-stitch designs not found in other portfolios. Every design has been developed just for you! Become a member of the Serenity Stitchworks Community and receive tips, tricks, fun facts and free cross stitch patterns. Go to www.SerenityStitchworks.com and sign up today.
Kaffe Fassett in the Studio
Author: Kaffe Fassett
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359585
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
World-renowned artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett provides a window into his creative process, offering readers new patterns, new ideas, and new inspiration With successes like Bold Blooms and Dreaming in Color, the latest book from Kaffe Fassett brings together all the best elements of his work and life. Kaffe Fassett in the Studio will offer an in-depth look at his work and where he finds inspiration, paying particular attention to his color work. He’ll also showcase some of his greatest designs in the areas of needlework, patchwork, and knitting, as well as provide three to four new patterns in each of these areas. Lastly, Fassett will speak to his fabric design and painting processes. He remains an icon in the fashion and craft worlds. He partners with brands such as Coach and is regularly featured in the pages of Vogue. Fassett’s brilliant use of color sets his work apart from other artists, and any collection of his work is a must have among fans and beyond.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359585
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
World-renowned artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett provides a window into his creative process, offering readers new patterns, new ideas, and new inspiration With successes like Bold Blooms and Dreaming in Color, the latest book from Kaffe Fassett brings together all the best elements of his work and life. Kaffe Fassett in the Studio will offer an in-depth look at his work and where he finds inspiration, paying particular attention to his color work. He’ll also showcase some of his greatest designs in the areas of needlework, patchwork, and knitting, as well as provide three to four new patterns in each of these areas. Lastly, Fassett will speak to his fabric design and painting processes. He remains an icon in the fashion and craft worlds. He partners with brands such as Coach and is regularly featured in the pages of Vogue. Fassett’s brilliant use of color sets his work apart from other artists, and any collection of his work is a must have among fans and beyond.
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812974492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812974492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 030737467X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 030737467X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.
The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594483172
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594483172
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Author: James Hearst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.