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English
Description
Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconsidering our relationship with nature.
Author
Publisher
Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone on Grimloch Lane enjoys the trees and shrubs clipped into animal masterpieces after dark by the Night Gardener, but William, a lonely boy, spots the artist, follows him, and helps with his special work.
3) Being there
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1971, c1970]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
142 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author uses a simple but charming character to indict the conduct of the mass media.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, another startling and disturbing portrait of today's South Africa, a land and a people beset by violence and siege. Coetzee here tells the story of a handicapped young man who has worked as a municipal gardener in Cape Town. His mother is dying, and she wishes to return to her birthplace out in the veldt. Without the required transit passes, mother and son set out on a journey that will end in death for...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isn't the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. One wine-fueled girls' night later, Hallie...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blue-collar landscaper Brett Walker has no interest in the Hollywood vacationers flocking to his hometown in the California mountains. But the scarred ex-soldier does have a duty to protect Blue Arrow Lake--and the family ski resort--from a serial burglar. So when he suspects a break-in, he takes action...and ends up catching sinfully tempting down-on-her-luck heiress Angelica Rodriguez. She reminds him of trouble, but he can't deny her a safe place...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. The book is divided into several sections. 'Gardens of Ideas' moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent, to Charles Jencks' Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography. 'Gardens of Straight Lines'...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means...leaving him."--Page [4] of cover.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 422 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Producer Brian Eastman has once again matched great material with appealing stars and come up with a winner. Rosemary & Thyme keeps the crimes grisly but the mood light, and makes the settings part of the fun. Rosemary Boxer (Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Ferris) are two women who bond over their midlife setbacks and a mutual talent for gardening and sleuthing. Series Two includes eight episodes set in gardens on the French Riviera and Italy's Ligurian...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves."--From publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ball Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
436 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the golden age in English history to today's gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women's contributions to gardening in Britain and around the world spanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed; women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens...
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