Night Flowers

Author : Kate Elliott
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316344456

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Night Flower by Kate Elliott Pdf

This gorgeous romance from World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott is a prequel to Court of Fives, the epic story of Jessamy and her struggle to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. Kiya is a Commoner who has just arrived in the bustling city of Saryenia. Esladas is a member of the Patron ruling class and determined to prove himself in the army. His plans are disrupted by the outgoing and beautiful girl who sells him fruit in the market, though, despite the fact that neither of them speaks a word of the others language. Brief conversations and stolen moments together soon become something more, but when their divided cultures clash, Kiya and Esladas must decide if their blossoming love is worth becoming outsiders for the rest of their lives. Read the beginning of their legendary love story in this Court of Fives companion novella!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Merrell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fashion
ISBN : 1858946484

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Night Flowers by Anonim Pdf

Damien Frost's portraits capture the vivid creative expression of the most colourful members of London's alternative nightlife scene, from drag queens and kings to club kids, goths, artists, and cabaret burlesque and fetish performers.

Author : Julia Eichelberger
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781617031885

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Tell about Night Flowers by Julia Eichelberger Pdf

Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and he was long the focus of Welty’s affection. Welty’s lyrical, witty, and poignant discussions of gardening and nature are delightful in themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Welty’s views of her writing and her friendships. Taken together with thirty-five illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own, chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway before Welty was fully conscious of them. By 1949 her art, like her friendships, had evolved in ways that she would never have predicted in 1940. Tell about Night Flowers not only lets readers glimpse Welty in her garden; it also reveals a brilliant and generous mind responding to the public events, people, art, and natural landscapes Welty encountered at home and on her travels during the 1940s. This book enhances our understanding of the life, landscape, and art of a major American writer.

Author : Lara Hawthorne
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536232844

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The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus by Lara Hawthorne Pdf

Hawthorne delivers an exquisitely illustrated picture book about the Saguaro cactus which grows in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and its flower, which blooms only one night a year. Full color.

Author : Lí Xīng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716931517

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Night Flowers Shirking from the Light of the Sun by Lí Xīng Pdf

A cultivator insists on repaying her life debt to a demoness. No one is happy with this development.

Author : Kate Elliott
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316364249

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Court of Fives by Kate Elliott Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! In this imaginative escape into enthralling new lands, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's first bestselling young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. Jessamy's life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family she can be whoever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom's best contenders. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between two Fives competitors--one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy--causes heads to turn. When Kal's powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes's family apart, she'll have to test her new friend's loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.

Author : Sara Herchenroether
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953534941

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The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether Pdf

People tend to think of us as shadows. Blurred black mist. Often, it’s “out of the corner of my eye.” People sense the cold. I’ve heard of ghost hunters who use a tape measure, laying it on the ground to mark our boundaries. I don’t want to be measured. In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases for the Sierra County police force even as her family begs her to retire. With only fragments from dusty case files and a witness who doesn’t want to remember, this unlikely duo is determined—no matter the cost—to uncover the truth behind the murders. And with their help, the woman in the woods is finally able to tell her story on her own terms and summon the power to be found. The Night Flowers—a haunting debut thriller written with pulse-pounding precision and a deep understanding of the psychology of violence and the tenacity of those who combat it—announces the arrival of Sara Herchenroether as an exciting new voice.

Author : Cheralyn Darcey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925682099

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Flowers of the Night Oracle by Cheralyn Darcey Pdf

Come into the enchanting Garden of the Night and explore your power and passion with this dedicated oracle of 44 cards and guidebook. Each card depicts a flower in its original environment and is coupled with the animals insects and birds of the flowers habitat. Find guidance inspiration and healing while you learn the language of the Flowers of the Night. Nature author and environmental artist Cheralyn Darcey shares with you the true Language of Flowers with an oracle deck which can also be used in any modality using flowers including aromatherapy flower essences and flower reading.

Author : Sarah Stovell
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906994969

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The Night Flower by Sarah Stovell Pdf

Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to 'parts beyond the sea'. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North-West to the city to eke a living playing her tin-whistle in a place where her people are despised. When her mother dies - from cholera, the 'gypsy disease' - she's caught breaking-and-entering and sentenced to transportation. Rose has been brought up to expect more, but when her husband dies and her father is sent down for illegal slave-trading, she's separated from her children and forced to take a governess's job. When she's caught stealing, the judge shows no mercy. Surviving - just - an appalling voyage, the two arrive just after Christmas into the blinding sun of the strange new island: Van Dieman's Land. Here they are sent to work in a nursery, where women of ill-repute give birth before being sent for correction. The nursery is run by a corrupt, debauched Reverend and his idealistic son, who soon takes a fancy to Miriam. But Rose, her best friend and close confidant, watches jealously and makes plans to reverse their fortunes. The Night Flower takes the reader on a thrilling Dickensian adventure through the dark side of our penal history to a Tasmanian frontier town where anything could happen and morality is made by monsters.

Author : Vali Myers,Martin McIntosh,Gemma Jones
Publisher : Outr Gallery
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0975107895

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Night Flower by Vali Myers,Martin McIntosh,Gemma Jones Pdf

Known in life for her wild, red hair, intricate facial tattoos and loud gypsy jewellery, Vali Myers' indomitable spirit and authentic take on life continued to permeate through her art, inspiring and influencing those who fall under her spell. Her exceptionally detailed drawings, delicately executed at night by lamp light, often took many months, even years, to complete. This is the first comprehensive art book on Myers and collects beautiful reproductions of her work, unseen drawings and an explanatory text from a range of Myers' contemporaries.

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Imaginary places
ISBN : 1596062592

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Thousandth Night by Alastair Reynolds Pdf

For many of us, the Ace Double Novels of the '50s and '60s have long been a source both of pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press stands squarely in that distinguished tradition, offering a pair of colorful, fast-paced stories from the reigning master of the intergalactic space opera: Alastair Reynolds. Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue, ambition, and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu, it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery, grandeur, and inconceivable immensity of the universe. The masterful novella Minla's Flowers features Merlin, a familiar figure to Reynolds's readers. Diverted by technical difficulties to a planet known as Lecythus, Merlin finds himself forced to play a part in the moral and military dilemmas of a world on the verge of extinction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0435232932

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The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marissa Mullen
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780593157602

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That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life by Marissa Mullen Pdf

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • A how-to guide for crafting beautiful and delicious cheese boards for entertaining and self-care, from the creator of the Cheese by Numbers method and the Instagram phenomenon That Cheese Plate “[Marissa Mullen] takes the guesswork out of the coolest, most solid thing to bring to any party or potluck: the cheese platter.”—Rachael Ray With her gorgeous, showstopping cheese and charcuterie boards, Marissa Mullen takes cheese to a whole new level. Her simple, step-by-step Cheese by Numbers method breaks the cheese plate down into its basic components—cheese, meat, produce, crunch, dip, garnish—allowing you to create stunning spreads for any occasion. This beautifully designed book goes beyond preparation techniques. According to Mullen, cheese plates can be an important form of artistic self-care, like flower arranging or meditative coloring books—but you can eat the results! That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life celebrates the ways in which cheese brings people together, and how crafting a cheese plate can be a calming, creativity-bolstering act. With fifty exquisite, easy-to-make cheese and charcuterie plates, this book will teach you how to relax, enjoy, and indulge— to find your cheesy bliss.

Author : Claire Warner
Publisher : Raven Press (ID)
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0995463107

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Blood Orchid by Claire Warner Pdf

The second book in the Night Flower Series.

Author : Kate Collins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101513620

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Night of the Living Dandelion by Kate Collins Pdf

Flower shop owner Abby Knight does not believe rumors that Vlad Serban, friend and employee of Abby's fiancé Marco, is a vampire. But how to explain that Vlad is from Romania, has prominent canines, likes bizarre plants such as bloodwort and Dracula orchid, and dresses entirely in black? When a local woman is found dead, her body drained of blood, the stakes become life and death. With Vlad the #1 suspect, Abby and Marco race to find the real killer, before Vlad's life really starts to suck.