The Blue Rose
The Blue Rose

Author: Kate Forsyth

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0143786180

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Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany. Her father, the Marquis, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau’s orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the commission to plan the chateau’s new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. David and Viviane fall in love, but it is an impossible romance. Her father has betrothed her to a rich duke who she is forced to marry and David is hunted from the property. Viviane goes to court and becomes a maid-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette and a member of the extended royal family. Angry and embittered, David sails away from England with Lord Macartney, the British ambassador, who hopes to open up trade with Imperial China. In Canton, the British embassy at last receives news from home, including their first reports of the French Revolution. David hears the story of ‘The Blue Rose’, a Chinese fable of impossible love, and discovers the blood-red rose growing in the wintry garden. He realises that he is still in love with Viviane and must find her. Viviane escapes the guillotine and returns to the ruin of Chateau de Belisima to rebuild her life. David carrying a cluster of rosehips finds her there, and together they decide to grow the fabled red rose of China in France.

A Rose by Any Name
A Rose by Any Name

Author: Douglas Brenner

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781565125186

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A treasury of eclectic information about different varieties of roses looks at the stories behind their colorful names, probing elements of folklore, poetry, art, literature, science, myth, and other sources to reveal the history of naming and cultivating roses, from ancient times to the present day.

Blue Rose: the AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy
Blue Rose: the AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy

Author: Jeremy Crawford

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934547748

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Aldis, the Kingdom of the Blue Rose, shines as a new light following the dark age of the Sorcerer Kings. Now, envoys of the Soverign's Finest strive to protect Aldis. Aided by the rhydan - their psychic animal allies - the champions of the Blue Rose guard the Light against the power of the Shadow. This book gives your everything you need to play.

Flower Confidential
Flower Confidential

Author: Amy Stewart

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2008-03-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1565126459

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A globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers and the fascinating industry it has created. Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.

Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color
Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color

Author: Kai Kupferschmidt

Publisher: The Experiment, LLC

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1615197532

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What is it about the color blue? Blue is our favorite color globally—the darling of artists since the time of the pharaohs. So it’s startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that “true” blue is truly rare. The sea and sky are blue, but we can’t bottle this trick of physics. And the few creatures, plants, and minerals that appear blue are almost all deceiving us. There’s no blue pigment in a blue jay—it would be brown but for how its feathers distort light. Kai Kupferschmidt has been enraptured by blue since childhood. In Blue, he invites readers on his globe-trotting quest to understand his favorite color— from Kyoto, where scientists are trying to engineer a blue rose, to Brandenburg, where conservationists hope to save the “little blue macaw.” Deep underground where blue crystals grow and miles overhead where astronauts gaze at our “blue marble” planet-wherever he finds this alluring color, it has a story to tell.

The Blue Rose
The Blue Rose

Author: Anthony Eglin

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1429903937

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Alex and Kate Sheppard have found the perfect house; the home they had always dreamed of owning. Nestled deep in the Wiltshire countryside and surrounded by a two-acre walled garden, The Parsonage was to be their own little paradise . . . but nothing stays perfect forever. Soon after moving in they make an impossibly exciting discovery---one that defies every known law of nature and science. They find a blue rose bush flourishing in their walled garden. But as word of their discovery leaks out, the Sheppard's peaceful existence is shattered and they find themselves plunged into a world of coded journals, genetic experiments, cold-blooded greed, and, ultimately, murder. Threatened from every direction, with no one to trust but themselves and Lawrence Kingston, a gardening expert to whom they have revealed their exciting secret---the only way they can save their lives is to unravel the dark, seductive secret of the Blue Rose.

The Way of the Rose
The Way of the Rose

Author: Clark Strand

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0812988957

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What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

The Old Rose Index
The Old Rose Index

Author: Brent C. Dickerson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-10-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1469716402

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This detailed book is the useful long-awaited and efficient comprehensive index to Brent C. Dickerson's fascinating works on Old Roses. The index lists all of the roses in these internationally-known, influential works, and specifies to the reader which page in which of these books has the main or important entry on the rose in question; also indexed here are all substantive references to people, places, things, or concepts in these important works which arose from Dickerson's twenty years of careful research and close study. "The Old Rose Index" additionally includes complete and updated appendices listing roses by year and by color, several interesting articles, as well as updates to Dickerson's previous booksplus completly new entries on 29 interesting old roses not covered previously! While not for those who do not own Dickerson's other books, "The Old Rose Index" will give the reader who does own these monumental works complete mastery over the great treasury of information supplied by "The Old Rose Advisor" (second edition), "The Old Rose Adventurer", and "The Old Rose Informant", saving time and streamlining research in one's quest for information. This remarkable book is the key that unlocks that treasury!

Gem
Gem

Author: Naida Reynolds

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1622872614

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Gem Forrester enjoyed every aspect of her career in government service - until the spring of 2011, when her family disappeared. Had Gem's family become targets of her own government? Or had her family unknowingly become entangled with Nazis who had also disappeared? Nazis who had disappeared in the winter of 1945! Gem's life became a waking nightmare. She was going through Hell searching for her family. And then she met the Man of Her Dreams - the Perfect Man - Wyatt Grantham. Wyatt became her emotional refuge. And then he became her second nightmare. Gem had secrets. Secrets she couldn't share with Wyatt. Secrets he insisted he had a right to know. Gem had to admit he did have a right to know her secrets. But still she couldn't and wouldn't share what he demanded to know. Nazi, spies, and Wyatt Grantham. The combination might drive Gem to the edge of her sanity. Author Bio: Naida Reynolds lives in Duluth, Mn, with her two sons, cats and a dog. keywords: Mystery, History, Spies, Romance, Humor, Revenge, Secrets, Lost Love, Lies.