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Author
Publisher
Universe Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Anyone looking for design ideas for patios, terraces, and other compact outdoor spaces will find this inspirational sourcebook invaluable, whether starting a fresh or fine-tuning an existing design. This is the ultimate resource for innovative terrace, roof garden, patio, and balcony design ideas for outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes. Featured inside this lavishly illustrated sourcebook are 600 full-color photographs and diagrams of uniquely...
Author
Series
Kindred series (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio, the adopted daughter of a insatiable vampire, falls in love with schoolmate Buddy and desperately tries to keep her love life and home life separate so that Buddy does not fall victim to her father's undying appetites.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Southwater
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This beautiful and practical new guide is essential to making the most of even the smallest and most unpromising space. Section one, Elements of Design, shows how to create the type of garden you would like. There are many styles to choose from, for instance examples of formal and informal gardens. There are also instructions on how to measure and draw a plan and how to deal with awkwardly shaped gardens and ideas for planning patios and front gardens....
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes," que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica...
Author
Series
Silver Harbor volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When chef Abby de Messiéres returns to Silver Island with her sister to get their late mother's affairs in order, she expected to inherit her mother's bistro along with their childhood home, not to discover a half sister they never knew existed, and a handsome vacationer camped out on her mother's patio. Workaholic Aiden Aldridge has been sent to Silver Island on a work-free vacation, armed with a "Let Loose list," and ordered to get a life by the...
7) Sacrificio
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
8) The terrace gardener's handbook: raising plants on a balcony, terrace, rooftop, penthouse, or patio
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every opportunity to leave the beach towel. The fabulous dinners on the hotel patio and the rumors about a stolen statue of a saint are the few interesting moments of his days on vacation. But then a tourist vanishes without trace and there's an attack on a deputy to the local assembly, who is involved in confrontations...
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