Orchid Shroud

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385673457

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A strange beast is killing both livestock and humans in the Dordogne . . . Business is booming for orchidologist Julian and interior designer Mara, but things take a horrifying turn when, in the wall of the sixteenth-century manor house she has been commissioned to restore, Mara’s workmen find a mummified baby. Forensic analysis reveals that the baby had been smothered more than a hundred years before. Julian discovers that the infant’s shawl is embroidered with an exact likeness of a rare orchid he has been researching. Meanwhile Mara falls under suspicion in another more recent murder, linked not only to the mummified child but, seemingly, to the spectre of a werewolf . . . As sinister revelations abound, so too do the legends and superstitions of the Dordogne. The breathtaking world of wild orchids and delectable Dordognais cookery provide atmosphere in equal part to the unraveling mystery. A superb and accomplished follow-up to Deadly Slipper.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1299265979

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Orchid Shroud by Michelle Wan Pdf

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400079537

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The Orchid Shroud by Michelle Wan Pdf

Interior decorator Mara Dunn and orchidologist Julian Wood team up again to solve two murders in Michelle Wan’s charming new botanical mystery.Mara is renovating the manor house of the wealthy Christophe de Bonfond when she discovers the body of a murdered infant. The body, concealed for more than a century, brings to light unexpected and critical information on an elusive Lady's Slipper orchid that Julian avidly seeks. Christophe hires genealogist Jean-Claude Fournier to exonerate his ancestors, only to have the expert unleash even more terrifying suspicions. When violent death strikes in the present day, Mara and Julian begin an investigation of their own that leads them to uncover a trail of murder spanning many decades.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307374356

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Kill for an Orchid by Michelle Wan Pdf

The fourth book in the "Death in Dordogne" series, Kill for an Orchid spans two hemispheres and three centuries, taking readers on a suspenseful journey of greed, obsession and murder. Life is finally coming together for Mara and Julian in their idyllic corner of the French countryside. They are even contemplating marriage! However, their happy prospects hit a nasty bump when Véronique, Julian's not-so-ex-wife, turns up unexpectedly, threatening blackmail and trouble. Trouble indeed: Veronique is brutally murdered, and the local gendarmes' top suspect is Julian himself. However, a mysterious list of names found among Véronique's effects leads Mara to ask if these individuals are linked to the crime. But how? And why? As Mara seeks answers to these questions, Julian has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to journey to China to solve the riddle of his mystery orchid. Is it the legendary Yong Chun Hua — the flower of eternal youth? To his peril, he soon learns that he is not alone in his quest. As he treks through the mountains of Sichuan piecing together the orchid's dark secret, he soon finds himself in a race for survival against a determined and deadly adversary. In France Mara, comes face to face with the horrendous truth behind Véronique's death. A world apart, these two must somehow help each other to thwart a cunning and ruthless killer.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385673433

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A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan Pdf

Third in the acclaimed “Death in the Dordogne” series. Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . . Expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and orchid-loving Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friends–first Amélie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, leaving behind a husband with Parkinson’s who is visited by a murderous apparition, then a local Turkish couple’s son disappears and is soon found dead of an overdose–each has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid-lover’s mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the other–permanently.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429936408

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A Twist of Orchids by Michelle Wan Pdf

"Cross-pollinates Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief with Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence."—The Washington Post Book World on Deadly Slipper Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . . In this electrifying third installment of the highly acclaimed Death in the Dordogne series, expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friends—first Amelie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, then a local Turkish couple’s son disappears—each has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid lover’s mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the other—permanently.

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216091059

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Going Places by Robert Burgin Pdf

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554699902

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When I Kill You by Michelle Wan Pdf

When mud-wrestling postal worker Gina Lopez is blackmailed, the results are amusing, confusing and potentially life-threatening as she strives to find ways not to carry out a contract killing.

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459809093

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I.O.U. Dead by Michelle Wan Pdf

Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who’s tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they’re sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and Jaco finally catch up to one of their targets. But she’ll never pay. She’s dead. Battered almost beyond recognition. But they recognize her killer, and Jaco comes up with a scheme to blackmail him. Now Keno has to decide who he is—bill collector or blackmailer. Or could he even be the good guy? Will he run or will he stay? In the end, will trusting himself help him outmaneuver a psychopathic killer?

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Random House LLC
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Divorced men
ISBN : 9780385664868

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Kill for an Orchid by Michelle Wan Pdf

The fourth book in the "Death in Dordogne" series, Kill for an Orchid spans two hemispheres and three centuries, taking readers on a suspenseful journey of greed, obsession and murder. Life is finally coming together for Mara and Julian in their idyllic corner of the French countryside. They are even contemplating marriage! However, their happy prospects hit a nasty bump when Véronique, Julian's not-so-ex-wife, turns up unexpectedly, threatening blackmail and trouble. Trouble indeed: Veronique is brutally murdered, and the local gendarmes' top suspect is Julian himself. However, a mysterious list of names found among Véronique's effects leads Mara to ask if these individuals are linked to the crime. But how? And why? As Mara seeks answers to these questions, Julian has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to journey to China to solve the riddle of his mystery orchid. Is it the legendary Yong Chun Hua -- the flower of eternal youth? To his peril, he soon learns that he is not alone in his quest. As he treks through the mountains of Sichuan piecing together the orchid's dark secret, he soon finds himself in a race for survival against a determined and deadly adversary. In France Mara, comes face to face with the horrendous truth behind Véronique's death. A world apart, these two must somehow help each other to thwart a cunning and ruthless killer.

Author : American Orchid Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Orchid culture
ISBN : UOM:39015019698540

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American Orchid Society Bulletin by American Orchid Society Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281203

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Will Collins
Publisher : Publish America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Mobile (Ala.)
ISBN : 1413733778

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A Shroud of Orchids by Will Collins Pdf

Cheryl Sinclair always dreamed of fighting and solving crime, yet she never envisioned herself as lieutenant for the Crimes Against Persons Unit with the Mobile Alabama Police Department. As the lead investigator, she finds herself in the middle of a string of murders, as each victim mysteriously turns up in a nearby swamp. Filled with drama and intrigue, A Shroud of Orchids follows Cheryl and her team as they race to find any clue that will lead to the person or persons responsible for the death of such young, promising and beautiful women. In the midst of jealousy and corruption, the team must wage a personal war against the painful memories and emotions that threaten the integrity of the case.

Author : Leif Bersweden
Publisher : Short Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780723358

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The Orchid Hunter by Leif Bersweden Pdf

He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey.This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids – one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on our doorstep.Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, The Orchid Hunter is a charming account of a precocious adolescent’s obsession with the natural world.Leif’s enthusiasm for his quest is infectious, as is the quiet conviction with which he keeps at it, showing how plant hunting can be the ultimate mindful activity.

Author : Albert Millican
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Colombia
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018321155

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Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter by Albert Millican Pdf