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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 641.0973 EAN: 9780060852566 ISBN: 0060852569 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 29, 2008 Studio: Harper Perennial Sales Rank: 160 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Average Rating:
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