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Author
Publisher
Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone on Grimloch Lane enjoys the trees and shrubs clipped into animal masterpieces after dark by the Night Gardener, but William, a lonely boy, spots the artist, follows him, and helps with his special work.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything's coming up corpses....
Louise Eldridge is taking her popular television show, Gardening with Nature, on location to film a garden tour at the historic Litchfield Falls Inn. It's a weekend in the country that promises rest, relaxation, and some of New England's most beautiful gardens.
But the local grapevine whispers of warring lovers, botanical scams, academic scandal, and family finagling. The tension is so thick you can...
Louise Eldridge is taking her popular television show, Gardening with Nature, on location to film a garden tour at the historic Litchfield Falls Inn. It's a weekend in the country that promises rest, relaxation, and some of New England's most beautiful gardens.
But the local grapevine whispers of warring lovers, botanical scams, academic scandal, and family finagling. The tension is so thick you can...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers - just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger. What he finds...
Author
Series
Vine mess volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
5) Od magic
Author
Publisher
ACE Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he is able to connect to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people and from becoming part of a community—until the day he receives a personal invitation from the Wizard Od. She needs a gardener for her school in...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Dahlias become suspicious of the newest visitors to Depression-era Darling, Alabama, rumored to be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked, and dig for the truth when one of the pair denies the association.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction. It's 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, attempts to escape the shadows of her past by taking a position as governess to an only child at an isolated country house in West Country, England. Isolated from the village, Margaret soon starts to feel that something isn't quite right. There are strange figures in the dark, tensions between...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the members of the garden club in Darling, Alabama, prepare to plant roses for their annual Confederate Day celebration, they find themselves distracted by a series of mysteries involving stolen funds, a secret code, and a local resident's odd behavior.
Author
Series
Lovely lethal gardens novel volume 12
Publisher
Valley Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
What was uspposed to be a leisurely stroll through a peaceful cemetery after a recent funeral turns into the start of a new case. Someone clobbers Doreen over the head and leaves her facedown among the funeral flowers.
10) Errol's garden
Author
Publisher
Childs Play Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Errol loves gardening, but there isn't enough room in his flat to grow everything that he would like. When he discovers a secret but neglected space at the top of the apartment block, he has a wonderful idea, but to carry it out he'll need some help. Surely the other residents will be too busy to help him realize his dream? Or just not interested enough? In this heart-warming tale of common purpose within a diverse community, Gillian Hibbs illustrates...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and very rich chocolate cake--but was something else baked...
13) True love blooms
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An urban gardener tries to save her community garden when a real estate developer seeks to acquire the land for a different use.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
Author
Series
Garden gates volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
First-time novelist Patti Hill has won over critics with this appealing look at a widow's efforts to keep her life together and her faith strong. Owner of Perennially Yours Garden Design, Mibby Garrett loves her eccentric customers and her teenage son. She will need much support, though, when she finds out an intriguing secret about her former husband's past-he had a daughter he never told Mibby about.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The eleven o'clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
Author
Publisher
Ball Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From the golden age in English history to today's gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women's contributions to gardening in Britain and around the world spanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed; women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For six dreadful months, David Corstorphine has tried to come to terms with his young wife's death, while caring for his three motherless children. Try as he may, David is unable to return to work, and his only form of solace comes from working in the garden of his parents' estate in the Scottish countryside.
Dispatched unexpectedly to New York, David's family hopes that the impromptu business trip will help him get back on his feet. But the journey...
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