The Blue Amaryllis

Author : Sonia De Leon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-14
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : 1491001046

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The Blue Amaryllis by Sonia De Leon Pdf

**This is a suggestive romance and contains no explicit sex scenes**Upon the death of her mother, 26 year old Leia York is left bereft and grief-stricken. An old college professor extends her an invitation to join him in one of the most beautiful, yet most dangerous, places on earth - the Amazon rainforest. She embarks on an impulsive journey, hoping to forget the sadness of her life in Chicago.Shortly after arriving in the village, Leia is among those chosen to go on a quest that is vital to the survival of the natives. The six week quest is fraught with danger, adventure, and unexpectedly: love. A love which is strictly forbidden. Will Leia respect an indigenous law that prevents her from pursuing the only love she has ever known?The Blue Amaryllis is a unique story that blends romance and adventure, while exploring the very real ecological issues threatening the Amazon rainforest and tribes within. It is a story of a proud people whose unique way of life faces extinction, and the passionate love that develops between one of their own and an outsider.

Author : Craig Crist-Evans
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417769416

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Amaryllis by Craig Crist-Evans Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.

Author : Christina Meldrum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439195366

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Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum Pdf

In the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd and Julia Glass comes a stirring and soulful novel about an American woman accused of murdering her husband in Africa and the series of events that led her to that point, compellingly told via the alternating perspectives of her four teenage daughters. Christina Meldrum has already won praise from critics and fans with her young adult novel Madapple, which was an ALA Best Book for Young Readers in 2009 and earned starred reviews across the board. Now, in Amaryllis in Blueberry, her first adult novel, she tells the gripping story of the seemingly ordinary Slepy family—who fled their Midwestern town to do missionary work in a small village Africa. Meldrum has been an aid worker in Africa, bringing an authenticity to this richly atmospheric novel which explores many universal themes including family, religion, and culture. Meet Dick, his wife Seena, and their four daughters, each named Mary: Mary Catherine, Mary Grace, Mary Tessa, and their youngest Amaryllis (aMARYillis). Seena has felt unloved and unvalued most of her adult life, so she escapes into her books, particularly Greek mythology, to satisfy her desire to find meaning. Her life has been built on secrets and lies and she wants to protect her daughters from the truth she knows will destroy their happy home. Mary Catherine seems to be the strong, faithful one, who in deference to St. Catherine, cuts off all of her hair, but she’s also a lost soul who desperately needs love and attention. Mary Grace is the eldest and the most beautiful—the one who easily seduces but is also easily seduced, especially when she’s faced with an exotic and fascinating culture so unlike her own. Mary Tessa is the inquisitive one who claims to be the most reliable when it comes to the facts of her mother’s case, and then there’s Amaryllis, who was born with an extrasensory gift of seeing things other can’t see, of knowing when bad things are about to happen, and of telling when those who profess to know the truth are the biggest liars of them all…. Opening with the dramatic scene of Seena on trial for murdering her husband Dick, this engrossing and lyrical novel flashes back to the year before her family left for missionary work in Africa—and how the buried secrets of their past came back to haunt and heal them all.

Author : Starr Ockenga
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Amaryllis (Genus)
ISBN : 0609608819

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Amaryllis by Starr Ockenga Pdf

Describes the development of each variety of amaryllis from bulb to flower, discusses the natural history of the amaryllis, and provides practical advice on cultivation, storage, propagation, and hybridization.

Author : Susan Iremonger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9766400318

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A Guide to Plants in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica by Susan Iremonger Pdf

A nature guide for both botanists and the more casual observer, identifying over 400 species of plant found in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. More than 50 percent of the plants described occur only in these mountains and nowhere else in the world. There are colour photographs and line drawings.

Author : Jayne Castle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982178796

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Amaryllis by Jayne Castle Pdf

Acclaimed for her novels of “delectably entertaining paranormal romantic suspense” (Booklist), the wildly popular alter ego of bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz takes off on a star-dusted excursion to a rich civilization where danger and passion are just a heartbeat away. Amaryllis Lark is one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen’s, the Earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet—and a place where love defies the most incredible odds. Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn’t attracted to prim and proper women and takes no interest in Amaryllis, with her crisp business suit and her aloof evaluation of his request to bust a corporate thief. But when a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation to an electrifyingly red-hot love affair, no power on heaven, Earth, or St. Helen’s can keep them apart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Amaryllidaceae
ISBN : OSU:32435018819474

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Year Book (American Amaryllis Society) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2978855

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Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Gardening
ISBN : NYPL:33433007779923

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The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Gardening
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030030162020

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The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser Devoted to Horticulture, Aboriculture, Botany and Rural Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek Fell
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781609618285

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Derek Fell's Grow This! by Derek Fell Pdf

What gardeners want most is a bigger and better return on their investment of time and money—maximum yields and superior flavor for edibles, long-lasting blooms for flowers. Derek Fell's Grow This! features expert advice for choosing and growing the top-performing plants (and avoiding the ones that disappoint). Derek Fell has grown hundreds of varieties and annually visits gardens and test plots across America, so he's qualified to guide gardeners to the best of the best—more than 600 vegetable, flower, herb, and lawn grass all-stars. He offers honest feedback about plant performance, even when it contradicts favorable public opinion or a grower's claims. Seed racks may be filled with ‘Kentucky Wonder' snap beans, but he dismisses that variety as too fibrous and needy and instead recommends ‘Blue Lake' beans for tenderness and high yields. Fell's firsthand experience means the difference between choosing plant winners and losers. Packed with insider evaluations from seedsmen, growers, and nursery retailers that readers won't find elsewhere, Derek Fell's Grow This! explains industry lingo and debunks marketing hype to help gardeners select the best-performing plants for all garden conditions and goals.

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747553816

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Amaryllis Night and Day by Russell Hoban Pdf

A mesmerising novel by one of the most original writers of the twentieth century ....'Tantalising, fresh and inventive.Hoban writes about grown-up love with an extraordinarily unsentimental yearning' Literary Review

Author : Amaryllis Fox
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385692427

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Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox Pdf

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while falling in love and giving birth to a daughter. Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying ancient languages and theoretical physics when her writing mentor, Daniel Pearl, was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, she applied to a Master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At 21, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the President. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At 22, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to "the Farm," where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field--as an art dealer specializing in tribal and Indigenous art, and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible-to-put-down record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.

Author : Shena Mackay
Publisher : Random House
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128143

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Nanny / Radio Gannet / The Lower Loxley Effect (Storycuts) by Shena Mackay Pdf

In 'Nanny', Professor Campbell Forsythe gives his lecture on metamorphosis in the dull little town of Ditcham, where events from his past come back unexpectedly to alter him forever. In 'Radio Gannet', Norma chances across a strange pirate radio station, only to realise that the voice issuing from the speakers belongs to none other than her elderly, ramshackle sister Dolly. 'The Lower Loxley Effect' explores the importance of family: the strangers with whom you share your inheritance and your future. Part of the Storycuts series, these three stories were previously published in the collection The Atmospheric Railway.

Author : Shena Mackay
Publisher : Random House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448114313

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The Atmospheric Railway by Shena Mackay Pdf

Shena Mackay is one of the very best short-story writers in the world. The Atmospheric Railway contains not only thirteen brilliant new stories, but a selection of twenty-three more from her previous collection, making it a delight for her existing admirers and the perfect introduction to her work for newcomers.