Book Description
Pictures and rhyming text describe the animals and insects that make a garden noisy, vibrant, and beautiful.
Author : Phillis Gershator
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781846864032
Pictures and rhyming text describe the animals and insects that make a garden noisy, vibrant, and beautiful.
Author : Vera Rosenberry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823415298
A tour through a garden brings encounters with its inhabitants, including wrens, a praying mantis, a box turtle, and more.
Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0679429220
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Author : Lindsay Barrett George
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060787627
Christina and Jeremy have been sent to the garden to gather vegetables for dinner. But they quickly realize that they are not the first visitors to the garden today. There's a slimy trail on a leaf in the cucumber patch, and some corn kernels have been pecked off the cob. Not only that, someone has been snacking on the lettuce leaves! Christina and Jeremy follow the clues to discover which birds, animals, and insects have been in their garden. Keep your eyes open and join Christina and Jeremy on a scientific journey in their own backyard!
Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1466828749
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Author : Ray Villareal
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1558856218
Even though he knows his best friend Artie is a liar, when the coincidences start to add up, seventh-grader Joshua starts to believe that there might be merit to his friend's idea of a body buried in the neighbor's yard.
Author : Linda L. Copeland
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781591865230
Oftentimes, we wonder not what our gardens grow, but who our gardens grow. Legends in the Garden is a collection of the history, places, people, and stories behind the names of some of America’s most well known plants. These anecdotes, researched and written by authors Linda L. Copeland and Allan M. Armitage, are a compilation of forty-six of these little known origins of plant names.
Author : Naomi Russell
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780744563436
A guessing game for the very young. Each page poses a simple question: who's climbing the apple tree?; who's jumping on the lily pads?; who's singing in the roses? Take a guess and then flip the flaps for the answer.
Author : Tim Richardson
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781838663209
Revealing the rich artistic history of this ever-changing art form, the A-to-Z format of this fully updated bestseller creates fascinating juxtapositions between the 500 iconic garden-makers of all time found within its pages
Author : Hodgson B.F.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release :
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 5521055061
«Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...