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Series
Hope and glory volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1900, Gray Delacroix has built a successful global spice empire and is tasked with gaining access to the private Delacroix plant collection. Botanist Annabelle Larkin steps into a web of political danger and will be forced to choose between her heart and her loyalty to her country.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and CommittedIn The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led...
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Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Alaska in the late 1800s: Miranda Colton, presumed dead, finds herself under the care of a native Alaskan and a botanist from England, Teddy Davenport. Longing to find her friends and continue north, Miranda fears that her chances diminish with each passing day. Teddy is deeply committed to his research of the unique Alaskan frontier. Despite his intentions, Miranda awakens a deep tenderness in his character. As their friendship blossoms, Miranda...
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Series
Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars forever. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber, Kate Khavari's debut historical mystery is a fast paced, fearless adventure. London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh attends a dinner party for the University College of London. While she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A retelling of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. When Lucy, a botanist famous for her research on ways to counter vampires, arrives at Blackwell Manor to tend to her sick cousin, she finds that mysteries abound. A restless ghost roams the hallways, and Lord Miles is clearly hiding a secret. Working together, Miles and Lucy attempt to restore peace to Blackwell Manor.
Author
Series
Blackstone legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
After years of tragedy, Gwen Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist at an idyllic New York college. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family's heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the downtrodden Irish immigrants in his community. He's proud of his work, even though he struggles to afford his ramshackle law office....
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Plagued by rumors that she poisoned her fiancé, Lucinda Bromley manages to live on the fringes of polite society. She tends her beloved plants and occasionally consults on a murder investigation, for the notorious botanist can detect almost any type of poison. But the murder of a lord has Lucinda shaken. She has detected a poison containing a very rare species of fern. So rare that the only specimen in England was in her conservatory - until it was...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best selling classic. Now with bonus materials!
Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and...
9) Finding us
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett snaps an image of a woman in widow's clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms. Eleanor longs to study botany at the University of Washington and soon becomes fast friends with botanist Bill Reed, but she can't stop thinking about the widow in the photograph. She is stunned to learn Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law...
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Series
Colorado cowboys volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"Traveling the Santa Fe Trail on a botanical exploration, Linnea Newberry longs to be taken seriously by the other members of the expedition. When she is rescued from an accident by Flynn McQuaid, her grandfather hires him to act as Linnea's bodyguard, and Flynn soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all-falling for a woman he's determined not to love"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
The story of two pioneering female botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, and their historic 1938 boat trip down the Colorado River which led them to be the first to survey and catalog the plant life of the Grand Canyon.