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Maiden Lane romances volume 9
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English
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Frugal Eve Dinwoody, who controls the purse strings of London's premier pleasure garden, meets her match in Asa Makepeace, the garden's owner, who refuses to let her order him around despite their mutual attraction.
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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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In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. Once a sanctuary for people when they needed it most, the garden's gate is now firmly closed. And that's exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it - anything to avoid his irritating new next-door neighbour. But when a mystery parcel drops on Winston's doormat - a curious bundle of photographs of a community garden, his garden, bursting...
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My weirdtastic school volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone likes veggies, right? Wrong! When Principal Stoker decides that Ella Mentry School needs a vegetable garden, A.J. and his friends just want to plant junk food. But when gardening expert Miss Nichol comes to oversee the planting, things get totally out of control. What could possibly go wrong?"--
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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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Bea rivers mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Bea Rivers' new job at Shandley Gardens seems to be idyllic; a stimulating career at a desert garden full of botanical wonders. But a slow rot has spread within Shandley Gardens as financial woes add stress to the small board of directors, putting Bea's job at risk. When one of the Gardens' founders, Liz Shandley, is killed in what appears to be a tragic accident, the immediate worry is the survival of the Gardens. But then the police determine that...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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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,...
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Fairy garden mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fairy-gardening tea shop owner Courtney Kelly investigates after a famous actress is murdered during a girl's weekend for an old sorority sister's fortieth birthday.
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English
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"Inspired by the true story of the leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Nicola Cornick's latest historical mystery combines past and present story lines that fans of Philippa Gregory and Susanna Kearsley will devour. 1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the king, placing his wife and child in grave danger. Anne must make a terrible choice: betray her only child or risk her...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: "he continually saw the garden in his mind's eye without being able to touch its existence." This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award-winner...
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As World War II begins, London orphan Emmie is unhappy to be evacuated to an old mansion in the Yorkshire countryside until she starts discovering the secrets of the house--a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, and a very secret garden.
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Español
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UNA MALDICIÓN CENTENARIA En la familia de Clara existe una leyenda: una maldición acecha la vida de todos sus miembros. Cuando decide indagar sobre el origen desconocido de esta oscura herencia, se embarca en una búsqueda que le llevará hasta el siglo XVIII y la historia de su antepasada, la IX Duquesa de Osuna. UN JARDÍN REPLETO DE SÍMBOLOS OCULTOS Ensombrecida por la muerte de varios de sus hijos, la duquesa se refugia en el diseño...
20) Mums and mayhem
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Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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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