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Blossom street novels volume 3
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English
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Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Returning to parents' house, her childhood girlfriends, and the garden she always loved, Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.
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In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it. . . .
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their...
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When Fiona finds McFee, a famous fiddler starring in the homecoming concert, dead in his trailer during a break in the concert, her Scottish father becomes a suspect and Fiona is determined to find the culprit and clear her father, even though her boyfriend, Chief Inspector Neil Craig, disapproves, but to make matters worse, the magical garden she inherited from her grandfather has withered, and it is up to Fiona to make it bloom again.
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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 interest to Jane's current group of guests, the Medieval Herbalists. But when one of them turns up dead,...
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Mas Arai mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Cynster novels volume 12
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Artist Gerrard Debbington accepts a commission to paint a young woman's portrait in exchange for access to her father's celebrated yet strictly private gardens, but when he learns the woman may be in danger, he appoints himself her protector.
10) Crystal gardens
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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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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FaithWords
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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On a mission to restore her hypochondriac mother to health, Gillian Ormsby also sets about reviving her mother's wilted garden to its former glory, enlisting the help of Adam, a handsome man who owns a family gardening business with his father.
12) The bone garden
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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English
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Fiona Knox lost her fiancé and her flower shopbut when she flies to Scotland to inherit her godfathers cottage and possibly magical walled garden, she may lose her life as well when shes swept into a murder investigation. Florist Fiona Knoxs life isnt smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her...
14) Pruning the dead
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Garden Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Post-retirement aches and pains cant prevent sixty-five-year-old Lilly Jayne from keeping the most manicured garden in Goosebush, Massachusetts. But as a murder mystery blooms in the sleepy New England town, can a green thumb weed out a killer? With hundreds flocking to her inaugural garden party, meticulous Lilly Jayne hasnt left a single petal out of place. But the picture-perfect gathering turns unruly upon the arrival of Merilee Frank, Lilys ex-husbands...
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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. Its here...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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''Perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette, reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis is back on the case when a body is dug up in the community garden. Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular café in Devil’s Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the garden’s owner, Darla. Darla’s list of rules is...
17) The dark rose
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"Paul was led into a life of crime by his boyhood protector, a bully named Daniel; but one night, what started as a petty theft turned into a grisly murder. Now, at nineteen, Paul must bear witness against his friend to avoid prison. Louisa's own dark secrets led her to flee a desperate infatuation gone wrong many years before. Now she spends her days steeped in history, renovating the grounds of a crumbling Elizabethan garden. But her fragile peace...
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Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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La Gran Guerra avanza inexorable y Emily Bryce, una joven orgullosa y rebelde, desea ayudar a su pais. Un atractivo piloto australiano la convence de su valia y en poco tiempo se enamoran y se prometen. Cuando lo envian al frente,Emily se ofrece de voluntaria para cultivar las tierras de una finca de Devonshire y descubre los diarios de una mujer que dedico su vida al jardin de plantas medicinales de su casa. Los dietarios le sirven de inspiracion...
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"Fiona Knox thought she was pulling her life back together when she inherited her godfather's cottage in Duncreigan, Scotland--complete with a magical walled garden. But the erstwhile Tennessee flower shop owner promptly found herself puddle boot-deep in danger when she found a dead body among the glimmering blossoms. One police investigation later (made a trifle less unpleasant by the presence of handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig), and Fiona's...
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Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has a crisis of faith. Returning to her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, she seeks work in a local soup kitchen. Preparing nourishing meals for folks in need, she keeps her hands busy while her heart searches for understanding. Meanwhile, her sister, Tamsin, as pretty and colorful as Elsa is unadorned and steadfast, finds her perfect life shattered when she learns that...
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