The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns

Author : Margaret Dilloway
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101588871

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The Care and Handling of Roses With Thorns by Margaret Dilloway Pdf

Winner of the ALA Reading List Award Difficult and obstinate. Thriving under a set of specific and limited conditions. That pretty much describes me. Maybe that’s why I like these roses so much. Roses are Galilee Garner’s passion. An amateur breeder, she painstakingly cross-pollinates her plants to coax out new, better traits, striving to create a perfect strain of her favorite flower, the Hulthemia. Her dream is to win a major rose competition and one day have her version of the bloom sold in the commercial market. Gal carefully calibrates the rest of her time to manage the kidney failure she’s had since childhood, going to dialysis every other night, and teaching high school biology, where she is known for her exacting standards. The routine leaves little room for relationships, and Gal prefers it that way. Her roses never disappoint her the way people have. Then one afternoon, Riley, the teenaged daughter of Gal’s estranged sister, arrives unannounced to live with her, turning Gal’s orderly existence upside down. Suddenly forced to adjust to each other’s worlds, both will discover a resilience they never knew they had and a bond they never knew they needed.

Author : Margaret Dilloway
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101189245

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How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway Pdf

A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.

Author : Susan Meissner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101625545

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A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner Pdf

A beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy in this compelling, emotional novel from the author of As Bright as Heaven and The Last Year of the War. September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. What she learns could devastate her—or free her. September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers...the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life. “[Meissner] creates two sympathetic, relatable characters that readers will applaud. Touching and inspirational.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Pat Frank
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062296207

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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Pdf

“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness. This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.

Author : Rebecca Vnuk,Nanette Donohue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610695381

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Women's Fiction by Rebecca Vnuk,Nanette Donohue Pdf

Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

Author : Sondra Carr
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492908096

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A Bed of Thorns and Roses by Sondra Carr Pdf

A Beauty and the Beast tale set during America's Gilded Age "I may be a monster, Miss Tate, but I am not a beast." His new secretary looked unconvinced. How could he blame her? His mask had her trembling like a frightened rabbit. Yet what lay beneath was far worse. The sight of his face had already killed one young woman. He well understood Miss Tate's fear. If only she understood his. Because as disturbing as she found his gruesome appearance, he was far more terrified of her beauty. Heir to a wealthy robber baron, Jonathan Nashe had every advantage money could buy until a tragic fire left him horribly disfigured. Now he lives secluded in his isolated country mansion, his scientific research his only solace. When declining health threatens to rob him of even this small comfort, Jonathan is forced to choose between his work and his privacy. Reluctantly, he hires a secretary. Though distasteful, sacrificing his privacy soon proves the least of his concerns; he never expected to sacrifice his heart as well.But Isabelle Tate guards the secrets of her past as vigilantly as Jonathan hides the scars beneath his mask. Can they confess their growing love for one another knowing that to bare their deepest feelings, they must also bare their deepest shame?

Author : Kayil Crow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1365735028

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Roses & Thorns by Kayil Crow Pdf

Roses & Thorns is all life lessons. This is the journey through the trials of pain, loss, love and healing, all the while learning and accepting the things that have happened. Life will always be inevitable. There will always be a storm to face, a battle to overcome, and a place to find healing before light comes. This book is my journey, a testament to my faith. These words are for anyone who is going through or has gone through the same thing. Don't give up on yourself. There is victory that comes after the pain, and healing that changes you with acceptance of forgiveness. You are never too lost or too far gone to be saved.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593083376

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Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood “A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's “Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” —Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Florists
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101588246

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Flowers &. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raven Grimassi
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609259174

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Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch by Raven Grimassi Pdf

“Many books talk about the relationship of Witches to natural magic. This book takes you into the very heart of it.” —Christian Day, author of The Witches’ Book of the Dead For the first time in more than a decade, Grimassi introduces readers to a new system of witchcraft, one that draws upon the old ways and the old days to teach the practitioner how to master all that it is to be a Witch. Chock full of spells, illustrations of plant spirits, and rituals, Grimassi takes readers deep into the woods to learn the secrets of the Thorned Path. Here we meet the entities that dwell deep within the organic memory of the earth—the devas, the deities, the magical life force behind the surface of the wooded glen. Chapters include Plant Spirits of the Green Realm, The Rose and Thorn Path of Witchery, Works of Magick, The Old Ones, and The Old Rites. Learn to work with these spirits and transform your life and practice “Undoubtedly the most exciting and important book of the decade!” —Dorothy Morrison, author of Utterly Wicked and The Craft “Truly a work of genius.” —Theitic, executive editor of The Witches’ Almanac “The underworld powers of magical alchemy await within these pages!” —Orion Foxwood, author of The Candle and the Crossroads

Author : John J. Rigo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781411653443

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Roses Amidst Thorns by John J. Rigo Pdf

This body of poetry work represents a twenty year journey in both the spiritiual growth and personal insight gained by the author. All net profit proceeds on this poetry book will be given to various Christian based charity projects and programs in the Collin County area of Texas to serve the poor, the homeless and those that are too ill to care for themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094702481

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Floral Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Libbey Hodges Oliver
Publisher : Brandylane Publishers Inc
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781883911355

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Flowers are Almost Forever by Libbey Hodges Oliver Pdf

This book presents tips and techniques on ways to extend the life of cut flowers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086715129

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SAF. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Redbook Florist Services. Educational Advisory Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cut flowers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063116705

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Purchasing and Handling Fresh Flowers and Foliage by Redbook Florist Services. Educational Advisory Committee Pdf