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1) Storm Front
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she is tailing a man who has smuggled out an extraordinary relic, a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
308 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the world of Floret Farm, where hundreds of flower varieties grow and thrive to produce show-stopping arrangements. Here, star flower farmer Erin Benzakein shares her insights on planting a cutting garden of your own - wherever you live. Learn the secrets to her airy and lush arrangements, including how-tos for spectacular bouquets, garlands, and wreaths to showcase your gorgeous flowers. Featuring planting, cultivating, and harvesting...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Physical Desc
75 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elegant collection of poetry and prose about flowers, trees, and plants of all sorts. A companion to Owls and Other Fantasies, Mary Oliver's poems and essays about birds, was one of the best-selling volumes of poetry of 2003 and a Book Sense 76 selection. Blue Iris, Oliver's new collection, is designed to be a companion to that volume. Elegantly illustrated, Blue Iris brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Mary Oliver's favorite poems, and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 257 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners only, this is a book for anyone interested not just in the blossoms, but in the roots, too. Diana Wells is the author of 100 Birds and How They Got Their...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Language
English
Description
The Secrets of Wildflowers is destined to be an indispensable book for anyone who loves and admires the natural world. Few things in nature beautify the world more than wildflowers. Their countless colors and endless designs are found almost anywhere-from fields to woods, deserts to ponds, and even in junkyards, dumps, and cracks in the pavement.
The Secrets of Wildflowers, Jack Sanders's colorful tribute, is bursting with odd facts and wonderful...
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared one common attribute: the vegetables were paired up. Not with other vegetables, but with beds of beautiful flowers. Even then, gardeners knew that vegetables love flowers. Or to be more precise, vegetables love pollinators, and pollinators love flowers. Drawn by colorful, fragrant blossoms, they visit in swarms, performing their good...
Author
Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
For centuries, symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly smitten couples alike. Extremely popular during the Victorian era, these floriographies flourished and versed the public on the hidden meaning of popular flowers like peonies (bashfulness) and tulips (passion). Coupled with stunning full-colour illustrations, this beautiful reference is a must-have for gardeners, florists, and flower enthusiasts. Whether...
11) Shock wave
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site...
13) Bad blood
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a murder suspect commits suicide after his arrest for killing a soybean farmer, Virgil Flowers uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 372 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a follow-up volume to Gracie's Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast. This new book treats 35 species of summer blooming wildflower some common, others less so concentrating on each species life history and, in the same manner as the earlier book, providing intriguing insights into the biology, ecology, folklore, and, where relevant, ethno-botany of each flower. Each species account is richly illustrated with a range of color photos"--
15) Flowers
Author
Language
English
Description
"Discover the flowers that grow in gardens, woods, grasslands, mountains, and deserts, or along streams and seashores. Find out how long a flower lives, and how it uses its smell as a signal for bees and other insects."-- Back cover.
17) Wildflowers
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Language
English
Description
A guide to the flowers that grow naturally in woodlands, grasslands, deserts, and wetlands.
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
108 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since Victorian times, flowers have allowed us to express ourselves without uttering a word. Peter Loewer explores the fascinating history of floral messages, plant lore, and unexpected historical connections--Cover.
19) Mad River
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
20) Escape clause
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
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