America’s Romance with the English Garden

America’s Romance with the English Garden

Author: Thomas J. Mickey

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0821444522

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Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.


Luck Is No Lady

Luck Is No Lady

Author: Amy Sandas

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 149261873X

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A sexy historical romance from USA Today bestselling author Amy Sandas where an infamous gambling hell teaches a wallflower of the ton that there is pleasure to be found in falling—and sometimes being a little bad can feel so very good. Emma Chadwick always assumed she'd live and die the daughter of a Regency gentleman. But when her father's death reveals a world of staggering debt and dangerous moneylenders, she must risk her good name and put her talent for mathematics to use, taking a position as bookkeeper at London's most notorious gambling hell. Surrounded by vice and corruption on all sides, it is imperative the ton never discovers Emma's shameful secret or her reputation—and her life—will be ruined. But Roderick Bentley, the hell's sinfully wealthy owner, awakens a hunger Emma cannot deny. Drawn deep into an underworld of high stakes gambling and reckless overindulgence, she soon discovers that to win the love of a ruthless scoundrel, she will have to play the game...and give in to the pleasure of falling from grace. What Reviewers are saying about Luck Is No Lady: "Smart and Sexy."—Booklist "SEXY AS SIN!"—Addicted to Romance "Lively plot, engaging characters and heated love scenes make this a page-turner...Sandas has created a book readers will enjoy."—RT Book Reviews


The Garden Of Dreams (Mills & Boon Modern)

The Garden Of Dreams (Mills & Boon Modern)

Author: Sara Craven

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1474055974

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Mills & Boon proudly presents THE SARA CRAVEN COLLECTION. Sara’s powerful and passionate romances have captivated and thrilled readers all over the world for five decades making her an international bestseller.


The Garden of Romance; Romantic Tales of All Time

The Garden of Romance; Romantic Tales of All Time

Author: Ed 1859-1946 Ernest Rhys

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781290838948

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.


The Garden of Eve

The Garden of Eve

Author: Kelly L. Going

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780152066147

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Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious birthday present takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town flourishes.


The Garden of Little Rose

The Garden of Little Rose

Author: Suzanne Snow

Publisher: Canelo

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1800321198

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For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding. When the gorgeous Mac accepts her invite, she assumes he’s joking and thinks nothing more of it... Until he turns up at the church on the wedding day. But Mac has an agenda. He wants to hire her skills as a horticulturist to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she should refuse – Mac has ‘heartbreaker’ written all over him – but she can’t resist uncovering the tragic truth behind the garden at Róisín. A heartwarming romance for fans of Victoria Walters, Trisha Ashley and Julie Houston. What readers are saying about The Garden of Little Rose: 'The story got off to a really quick start and has a bit of everything; romance, mystery and friendship. This was a lovely read for a weekend!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley reviewer 'I love this book. Funny, heartbreaking, uplifting and excellent.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley reviewer 'Snow did a wonderful job with visualization. I felt like I was there in the gardens, on the beach with the sand between my toes, dinner with the family, all of it.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley reviewer


The Garden of Hopes and Dreams

The Garden of Hopes and Dreams

Author: Barbara Hannay

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1760899429

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Can love and friendship blossom on a rooftop? The residents in Brisbane’s Riverview apartment block barely know each other. They have no idea of the loneliness, the lost hopes and dreams, being experienced behind their neighbours’ closed doors. Vera, now widowed, is trying her hardest to create a new life for herself in an unfamiliar city environment. Unlucky-in-love Maddie has been hurt too many times by untrustworthy men, yet refuses to give up on romance. Ned, a reclusive scientist, has an unusual interest in bees and worm farms. Meanwhile, the building’s caretaker, Jock, is quietly nursing a secret dream. When a couple of gardening enthusiasts from one of the apartments suggest they all create a communal garden on their rooftop, no one is interested. Not at first, anyway. But as the residents come together over their budding plants and produce, their lives become interconnected in ways they could never have imagined. From award-winning novelist Barbara Hannay, The Garden of Hopes and Dreams is a timely and uplifting story about the importance of community and the healing power of connection.


Garden of Her Heart

Garden of Her Heart

Author: Shanna Hatfield

Publisher: Hearts of the War

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780998098807

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Torn between doing what her country orders and what her heart demands, Miko Nishimura discovers love can bloom even in the most unlikely places and circumstances.


In the Garden of Iden

In the Garden of Iden

Author: Kage Baker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0765314576

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Trained by The Company as a botanist and rendered immortal, Mendoza is sent back amidst the turmoil of Renaissance England with the assignment to safeguard a species of holly that contains properties to cure cancer for future generations.