The Garden Intrigue

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101560334

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The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig Pdf

Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" (Kirkus Reviews) and "clever and playful " (Detroit Free Press). Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places... Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can’t bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus’s side. An old school friend of Napoleon’s stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus’s poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend’s entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted—especially Augustus’s unexpected feelings for Emma.

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1322818428

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The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig Pdf

Author : Philip Oostenbrink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999734564

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The Jungle Garden by Philip Oostenbrink Pdf

This book takes the "houseplant look" outside by exploring the wonders of lush, green, foliage plants that are hardy in the garden to -10F. Unlike flowers that fade, these big-leaved, larger-than-life plants provide year-round impact for decades and small, urban gardens that are well protected are the perfect home for them. Expert horticulturist Philip Oostenbrink has been an enthusiastic grower for years and in this book recommends the best hardy, foliage plants for texture, leaf shape, and color. Jungle gardens can be shady and immersive, sunny and open or somewhere in between and there are plants suited to all these environments including purple-leaved bananas, desert-island palms, spiky agaves, architectural Pseudopanax, and succulents such as Echeveria and Aeonium. Beautiful special photography by Sarah Cuttle features standout jungle gardens that demonstrate how to combine foliage plants effectively and create backdrops and container displays that make the plants pop. This book is the irresistible next step for all houseplant addicts and for all who are ready to embark on their very own jungle adventure.

Author : Mark Mills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440638046

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The Savage Garden by Mark Mills Pdf

Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden—a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. As his research deepens, Adam comes to suspect that buried in the garden’s strange iconography is the key to uncovering a long-ago murder. But the ancient house holds its own secrets as well. And as Adam delves into his subject, he begins to suspect that he is being used to discover the true meaning of the villa’s murderous past.

Author : Alan T. Cowood
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553691433

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Ticket to Intrigue by Alan T. Cowood Pdf

One small, seemingly insignificant event turns the quiet, well-ordered life of Paul Brett upside down. His curiosity leads him to take dangerous chances while trying to find a missing man and solve a puzzling note. His powers of reason and his courage are tested on a number of occasions. His good fortune in teaming up with a very smart woman will ultimately bring successs to this very unusual adventure.

Author : Saxon Holt
Publisher : PhotoBotanic Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Provocation and Intrigue by Saxon Holt Pdf

Provocation and Intrigue is the fifth lesson in the GOOD GARDEN PHOTOGRAPHY series, a survey of the various elements any landscape photographer must consider when capturing an image artfully to tell the story of what he or she sees. This lesson in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and inspire your viewers.

Author : Lori M. Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786456550

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Portals of Power by Lori M. Campbell Pdf

Fantasy writing, like literature in general, provides a powerful vehicle for challenging the status quo. Via symbolism, imagery and supernaturalism, fantasy constructs secondary-world narratives that both mirror and critique the political paradigms of our own world. This critical work explores the role of the portal in fantasy, investigating the ways in which magical nexus points and movement between worlds are used to illustrate real-world power dynamics, especially those impacting women and children. Through an examination of high and low fantasy, fairy tales, children's literature, the Gothic, and science fiction, the portal is identified as a living being, place or magical object of profound metaphorical and cultural significance.

Author : Vanessa Berridge
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445643366

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The Princess's Garden by Vanessa Berridge Pdf

The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be.

Author : Cynthia Wicklund
Publisher : Cynthia Wicklund
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In the Garden of Temptation (The Garden Series Book 1) by Cynthia Wicklund Pdf

HONOR -- Adam Stanford, Earl of Ashworth, has always done the right thing. DESIRE -- Lady Catherine Bourgeault, lonely and rejected, longs to experience passion, to love just once in her life. TREACHERY -- The Baron Bourgeault, to what extremes will an obsessive, unstable man go to achieve his own dark ends? SEDUCTION -- In the face of a love that will not be denied, Adam and Catherine risk everything to be together. BETRAYAL -- What price must Catherine and Adam pay for a forbidden love in a time when honor meant everything?

Author : Lucian A. Tower
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483633985

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A Walk in the Garden of My Spirit by Lucian A. Tower Pdf

I began writing song lyric, then came poetry, and short stories some 40- years-ago when I was 10-years-old. During the sixties in high school, I had the privilege of meeting The Poet Laureate of the United States, Mr. Robert Frost. He spoke with me discussing my poetry and my ideas. He told me to keep writing and reading, and as I continued I would learn so much more and eventually become a published poet. I have continued writing lyrics, poetry, and short stories. I am now 64-years old and I am published. I have always told other poets and writers to keep on writing, and learning about the many different styles of the written arts. The way I see writing poetry is a likeness to a photograph of a moment, a dream, a place, and a thing, a memory good or not so good. Life comes at us in many different ways, sometimes in many different ways at once. Its the situations that arise, the masks some people wear, the way they talk and rub shoulders with everybody. These things make up the poetry I write. When you sit down and look at life youll find its much bigger than just us. This is poetry, lyric writing, short stories from the imagination, journalism, and actually all the arts, they are great love affairs with life. I have found all things good in the written arts, even when Im turned down by an editor. Its all learning and enjoying what you do. So choose a photograph of a moment, a dream, or a situation, and then write about it. Create a picture with words of description. I live a simple life as a Disabled Veteran of the U.S.M.C., and the Vietnam War. However, I am simply who I am, and I dont try to say Im someone else. I am a human being who loves the arts. My message to you all whom read this is KEEP ON WRITING; KEEP ON KEEPING ON.

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101495452

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The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig Pdf

Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges closer to her employer, she is surprised to learn that she has much in common with him. And Jaouen finds he's hired more than he's bargained for...

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749010959

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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig Pdf

Eloise Kelly longs for the romance of years gone by; for a dashing hero like The Scarlet Pimpernel to come and sweep her off her Jimmy Choo-clad feet.but instead she's sloshing around London in the rain and finally realising that romantic heroes are a thing of the past. To distract herself from such thoughts, Eloise concentrates on her History dissertation, and it's while rummaging through a pile of old letters and diaries that she discovers something amazing, something that historians have missed: the secret history of the most elusive spy of all time, The Pink Carnation. But why is the very modern Colin Selwick so determined to interfere with Eloise's research? And why does he have to be quite so charming.?

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307952424

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In the garden of beasts by Erik Larson Pdf

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the 'New Germany,' she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance - and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.

Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429926584

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Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson Pdf

Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series from Steven Erikson. The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand... Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743286602

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Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the passionate, turbulent times of seventeenth-century England as seen through the eyes of the country’s most famous royal gardener. John Tradescant’s fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England, but it is his clear-sighted honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant. As an informal confidant of Sir Robert Cecil, adviser to King James I, he witnesses the making of history, from the Gunpowder Plot to the accession of King Charles I and the growing animosity between Parliament and court. Tradescant’s talents soon come to the attention of the most powerful man in the country, the irresistible Duke of Buckingham, the lover of King Charles I. Tradescant has always been faithful to his masters, but Buckingham is unlike any he has ever known: flamboyant, outrageously charming, and utterly reckless. Every certainty upon which Tradescant has based his life—his love of his wife and children, his passion for his work, his loyalty to his country—is shattered as he follows Buckingham to court, to war, and to the forbidden territories of human love.