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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home--complete with its own set of rules for relaxing--that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope. She's determined not to let her husband's affair...
82) A bit of Earth
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
Author
Series
Skull Cat volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's Scully the Cat's first day as the new garden-keeper at a spooky castle...but when everyone goes missing, is he brave enough to become a hero? Draw your sword and let's find out! Even though the castle is an eerie place, full of dark secrets, Scully is excited to start his new job and prove himself to be a great gardener. But wait a minute...what happened to all his co-workers? Were they devoured by bloodthirsty vampires? Spooked by a love-struck...
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Publisher
NED ediciones
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Con este libro puedes comenzar a cultivar de una forma sencilla y natural convirtiéndote en un pequeño agricultor. Siguiendo los criterios básicos del cultivo ecológico obtendrás alimentos frescos, disfrutarás de un espacio agradable con hortalizas, frutas y plantas de jardín. Aprenderás a planificar tu huerto, adecuar el espacio, preparar la tierra, organizar la plantación, conocer las necesidades de las plantas y aplicar métodos 100 %...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in,...
86) Turbo
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After a freak accident, a garden snail with dreams of becoming the fastest snail in the world might just realize his goal.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, the story is a contemporary fairy tale. Facing eviction in a month if she can't resurrect the dying garden in her backyard, reclusive librarian Bella Brown meets her grumpy next-door neighbor, who happens to be a talented horticulturalist. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Bella begins to wonder if she can revive both the garden, and her dreams of becoming a children's book author.
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English
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
89) Ming tea murder
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Series
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English
Description
Normally Theodosia wouldn't attend a black tie affair for all the tea in China. But she can hardly say no to her hunky, handsome boyfriend, Max, who directs public relations for the Gibbes Museum in Charleston. Max has organized an amazing gala opening for an exhibit of a genuine eighteenth century Chinese teahouse, and the crème de la crème of Charleston society is invited. In the exotic garden staged in the museum's rotunda, a Chinese dragon dances...
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Series
Riftwar. Riftwar saga volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Sethanon, a city of ruins, becomes the setting of the final battle between Order and Chaos, while the master magician Pug undertakes the perilous task to confront the terrible Enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds.
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Language
English
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1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate's gardens and olive groves. But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un escritor maduro, preocupado por la depresión que sufre su jardinero, se adentra en los recovecos de un jardín edénico que esconde los secretos más inquietantes. Un consagrado escultor de la antigua Grecia emprende un accidentado viaje hacia un oráculo en busca de consejo para tratar a su asistente, acechado también por el monstruo de la melancolía y la desazón. Por último, un hombre corriente sumido en los achaques de la edad anhela gozar...
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English
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1917 ... It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true--didn't it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a national sensation, their discovery offering hope to...
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffith photographed fairies in their garden, in the small village of Cottingley (Yorkshire). Without expecting it, many people paid attention-- including renowned writer and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the story, narrated by Elsie herself, of the true events that led to the Cottingley Fairies becoming a international phenomenon"--Provided by publisher.
95) Aria
Author
Publisher
ADV Manga
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"On the planet Aqua, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Venice. The technology of "Man Home" (formerly Earth) has not entirely reached this planet, and Akari is alone, having no contact with family or friends. Nonetheless, the town, with its charming labyrinths of rivers and canals, becomes Akari's new infatuation, along with the dream of becoming...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you...
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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens.That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and very rich chocolate cake - but was something else baked...
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, harvesting, storage, labor, debt, customer management, sales, accounting, and much more. With this comprehensive guide, you can turn your dream of a thriving farm into a profitable reality.
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From MindBodyGreen's Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a four-color guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, with new research on how nature heals us as well as tools for becoming stewards of the earth that nurtures us"--
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