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While caring for her Japanese mother, an unnamed narrator, preoccupied with her mother's garden, embarks on a torrid affair with an arborist equally fascinated by it and as she becomes obsessed with the awakening of her own body, she begins to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order.
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
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338 p. ; 24 cm.
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Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
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[2024]
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391 pages ; 24 cm.
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Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret. Kamala Nair was born in London and grew up in the United States. A graduate of Wellesley College,...
10) Crystal gardens
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
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New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delivers “a promising start to a Victorian-era series”* with the first Ladies of Lantern Street novel…
Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is...
Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is...
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"It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition,...
12) Lily in bloom
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2010
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361 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay's divorce settlement are quirky at best: live in her ex-husband's ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead mother-in-law's renowned garden, and host the small Gulf Coast town's overblown annual soiree. Lily needs help. Aided and abetted by her "I'll help bury the body, no questions asked" friends, Lily sets out to lay old ghosts to rest and grow a new life.
14) Mums and mayhem
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2020.
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323 pages ; 22 cm
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Duncreigan, the magic garden that Fiona Knox inherited from her godfather, is dying. Someone broke into the garden and cut the centuries-old climbing rose - the source of the magic. But that's not the only problem: world-famous fiddle player Barley McFee, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for a grand homecoming concert, was killed during the concert's intermission. And Fiona's parents traveled from Tennessee to visit Fi and her younger sister, Isla, and...
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a "land girl," tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It's here that...
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Book retreat mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
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x, 294 pages ; 18 cm.
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Things really go to seed in the newest novel in the New York Times bestselling Book Retreat mysteries... There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward's book-themed resort--a garden filled with beautiful but deadly plants such as mandrake and nightshade. Tucked away behind ivy-covered walls and accessible only through a single locked door, as described in the pages of Frances Hodges Burnett's classic novel, the garden is of special...
17) The cypress maze
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[2023]
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284 pages ; 20 cm
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"Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice's dream of an escapist year teaching English is shattered. Granted shelter at the Villa delle Colombe, she seeks refuge in Francesca and Edoardo's beautiful walled garden, hidden from the outside world, with an elaborate cypress maze at its heart. But Beatrice is not the only one seeking an escape here. Francesca has brought children to the safety of the house, as well as other adults, all of...
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2021.
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79 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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"Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites' magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she'll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends...
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"1907: Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to industrialists, solicitors, and bankers. When she is hired to design the gardens of the Highbury House estate, the gardens--and the people she meets--promise to change her life forever. 1944: When Highbury House is requisitioned and transformed into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers, three very different women are drawn together by a secret that will last for...
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2021.
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354 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith...
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