Book Description
" ... brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's fiction and non-fiction"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788129151865
" ... brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's fiction and non-fiction"--Page 4 of cover
Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Lobster Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781897073254
"The classic Wordsworth poem is depicted in vibrant illustrations, perfect for pint-sized poetry fans."
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1842327305
Inspector Appleby's aunt is most distressed when her horse, Daffodil - a somewhat half-witted animal with exceptional numerical skills - goes missing from her stable in Harrogate. Meanwhile, Hudspith is hot on the trail of Lucy Rideout, an enigmatic young girl has been whisked away to an unknown isle by a mysterious gentleman. And when a house in Bloomsbury, supposedly haunted, also goes missing, the baffled policemen search for a connection. As Appleby and Hudspith trace Daffodil and Lucy, the fragments begin to come together and an extravagant project is uncovered, leading them to South American jungle.
Author : Stephen Eugene Bourne
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Daffodil
ISBN :
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 1999-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152020941
During Hanukkah two children help a Holocaust survivor to once again embrace his religious traditions.
Author : Laura Munson
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 198260526X
You are invited to the rest of your life. Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends. The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what? Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt—and that’s where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa’s Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.
Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2020-05-31
Category :
ISBN :
When Mr. Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur. and owner of Lyne's Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack Tarling to investigate another employee, Mr. Milburgh, Lyne now changes his plans. Tarling and his Chinese companion refuse to become involved. They pay a visit to Odette's flat. In the hall, Tarling meets Sam, convicted felon and protégé of Lyne. Next morning Tarling discovers a body. The hands are crossed on the breast, adorned with a handful of daffodils.
Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Author : Chris Wiesinger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1623490022
Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation. Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions. Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced. This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape. Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.
Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober depths of those grey eyes of hers a light which would have warned a man less satisfied with his own genius and power of persuasion than Thornton Lyne. He was not looking at her face. His eyes were running approvingly over her perfect figure, noting the straightness of the back, the fine poise of the head, the shapeliness of the slender hands. He pushed back his long black hair from his forehead and smiled. It pleased him to believe that his face was cast in an intellectual mould, and that the somewhat unhealthy pastiness of his skin might be described as the "pallor of thought." Presently he looked away from her through the big bay window which overlooked the crowded floor of Lyne's Stores. He had had this office built in the entresol and the big windows had been put in so that he might at any time overlook the most important department which it was his good fortune to control. Now and again, as he saw, a head would be turned in his direction, and he knew that the attention of all the girls was concentrated upon the little scene, plainly visible from the floor below, in which an unwilling employee was engaged. She, too, was conscious of the fact, and her discomfort and dismay increased. She made a little movement as if to go, but he stopped her. "You don't understand, Odette," he said. His voice was soft and melodious, and held the hint of a caress. "Did you read my little book?" he asked suddenly. She nodded....