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Jessie Sheeler
The Garden at Bomarzo: A Renaissance Riddle

2007 y.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Description: Probably the most enigmatic garden in Europe, the Sacred Wood at Bomarzo in central Italy has been called extravagant, mysterious, unholy, surrealist, fascinating and good fun. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0711226733, 978-0711226739
Book size: —; Page extent: 112.

 

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Fred Whitsey, Tony Lord
The Garden at Hidcote

2007 y.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Description: Tells the story of the garden`s creation by the enigmatic American Lawrence Johnston and how it achieved such significance that in 1948 it became the first garden to be taken into the care of National Trust. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0711225311, 978-0711225312
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Suzy Bales
The Garden in Winter: Plant for Beauty and Interest in the Quiet Season

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 1594863636
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Don Kerr
The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor (Art in Profile)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: — [detailed...]

ISBN: 1552381226
Book size: —; Page extent: 100160.

 

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Faye Kellerman
The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman`s riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly…. Among the first-rate short mysteries in this collection, the brand-new `Garden of Eden` and `Open House` feature the famous sleuthing duo Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. `Bull`s-Eye` introduced Cindy Decker to the crime-fiction world, and `Mr. Barton`s Head Case` appears here for the very first time in English. In addition, two rare personal essays allow readers glimpses into Kellerman`s private life, revealing her true grit in `Small Miracles` and childhood memories of working in her father`s deli in the exquisite `Summer of My Womanhood.` Compiled at last in one volume, the seventeen pieces in this book feature new introductions by the author and contribute to a unique, compelling portrait of one of America`s top masters of suspense. A must-have collection for all mystery fans, The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0446530395
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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K. L. Going
The Garden of Eve

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 0152059865
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Jane S. Smith
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

2010 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. A century ago, however, Luther Burbank`s blight-resistant potatoes, white raspberries, and plumcots-a plum-apricot hybrid-were celebrated as triumphs in the best tradition of American ingenuity and perseverance. In his experimental grounds in Santa Rosa, California, Burbank bred and cross-bred edible and ornamental plants-for both home gardens and commercial farms-until they were bigger, hardier, more beautiful, and more productive than ever before. A fascinating portrait of an American original, The Garden of Invention is also a colorful and engrossing tale of the intersection of gardening, science and business in the years between the Civil War and the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0143116894
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Eva Etzioni-Halevy
The Garden of Ruth

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A historical novel imagines the riveting story behind the Book of Ruth Sitting beneath a tree in ancient Bethlehem, Osnath, niece of the prophet Samuel, examines a dusty scrap of parchment she found hidden in her relative`s scroll room. Scrawled on the decaying page is an intriguing message addressed to Ruth the Moabite?great-grandmother of David, the future king of Israel. Compelled to discover the truth about Ruth`s life, Osnath begins searching for the identity of Ruth`s nameless lover and the secret that is cloaked behind his anonymity. But as she digs deeper into the past, she finds her inquiries blocked by David`s brother Eliab. What is the long-buried truth he fears will come to light? And what is the threat that Ruth`s story poses to his family`s vast inheritance? Eva Etzioni-Halevy`s novel deftly interweaves history and fiction to create a compelling exploration of a prominent biblical figure. Told through the voices of both Osnath and Ruth herself, … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0452286735
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Bilge Karasu
The Garden of the Departed Cats

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A surreal, utterly unique Turkish novel. In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the players (visitors versus locals) bearing weapons. This archaic game, the central event of The Garden of the Departed Cats , may prove as fatal as the deadly attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Vizier, or Captain, of the home team. Their `romance` (which, though inconclusive, magnetizes our protagonist to accept the Vizier`s challenge to play) provides the skeletal structure of this experimental novel. Each of their brief interactions works as a single chapter. And interleaved between their chapters are a dozen fable-like stories. The folk tale might concern a 13th-century herbal that identifies a kind of tulip, a `red salamander,` which dooms anyone who eats it to never tell a lie ever again. Or the tale might be an ancient story of a terrible stoat-like creature that feeds for years on the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0811215512
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Stephen F. Dale
The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) (Brill`s Inner Asian Library)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis the first critical biography of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, the founder of one of the great premodern Islamic empires, the Timurid-Mughul empire of India. It contains an original evaluation of his life and writings aswell as fresh insights into both the nature of empire building and the character of the Timurid-Mughul state. Based upon recently published critical editions of Babur`s autobiography and poetry, the book examines Babur`s life from the time he inherited his father`s authority in the Ferghanah valley, east of Samarqand, in 1494, until his death in Agra, India in 1530. The book is written in an alternating series of thematic and narrative chapters. The thematic or analytical chapters examine his major writings, discuss his cultural personality and his reaction to Indian culture, while the narrative chapters relate the story of his life while critically commenting on his autobiographical intent. The book contributes to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 9004137076
Book size: —; Page extent: 546.

 

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Giorgio Bassani
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Amazon.comGiorgio Bassani`s masterwork has Vittorio de Sica`s 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth`s obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani`s doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals` inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems `downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us.` The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II`s end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis` 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: `Who could say if theyfound any sort of burial at all?` As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1400044227
Book size: —; Page extent: 280.

 

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Susan Dudzinski
The Garden of the Mind

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: (The Garden of the Mind…five gardens of poetical interlude is a selection of 100 contemporary poems by new Canadian poetess Susan M. Dudzinski, Dipl.B.. Her original poetry is charged with imagery and emotion, with her muse being all things philosophical. The eclectic subject matter offers up the seemingly prosaic aspects of live, only to reveal their more complex sides, truly reflecting the wide-ranging ruminations of the mind. Carefully selecting words, she engages with variation, solemnly paying homage to universal truths like love and hope, and then breaks away to spin a wholesome tale filled with fictional characters, action and lore. The book is divided into five sections, or `gardens`- Free Flowing, Lyrical, Menagerie, Whimsical, and Japanese - which takes the reader on a journey where words find their roots in the everyday experience and observation. The majority of her work is in free verse or a style of rhythmic rhyme unique in design, but in the final garden, the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0779502930
Book size: —; Page extent: 200.

 

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Freeman Patterson
The Garden

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionFreeman Patterson has traveled the globe to photograph the wonders of the natural world. In this book, Patterson turns his camera towards the garden in his own backyard. Hear the whisper of wind through a canopy of trees. Inhale the sweetfragrances of ferns and grasses. Observe the vibrant colors of delphiniums, forget-me-nots, poppies, bachelor buttons and cornflowers. Trace the texture of white snowflakes against brown grasses. On early spring mornings, the daffodils dance and the young fronds of hay-scented ferns push their way up to the light. Summer brings lupins as far as the eye can see and robust hostas advancing on Virginia bluebells. Autumn`s gold leaves give way to frost-gilded petals, and winter`s first snowfall intensifies the red of high-bush cranberries. The expectant earth stirs again in spring as energy kindles and the garden is reborn. In Patterson`s garden, rain is as important as sunshine, colors blend seamlessly with fragrances, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1552635171
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Sarah Stewart
The Gardener

2007 y.
Publisher: Square Fish
Description: Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers` faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece - an ambitious rooftop garden - which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small`s illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0031236749
Book size: —; Page extent: 40.

 

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Mike Buffi
The Gardener`s Guide to Planting and Growing Trees: Choosing, planting and caring for trees, conifers and palms for every season and situation with over 800 colour photographs

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 0754816117
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Pierre Nessmann
The Gardener`s Palette: A Year of Color in the Flower Garden

2008 y.
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori &, Chang
Description: Approaching a flower garden as a blank canvas and the gardener as an artist, `The Gardener`s Palette` demystifies the somewhat daunting task of conceiving, planning, and planting a beautifully executed flower garden. The book categorizes more than 800 flowers and plants in a delightfully helpful way: by color, allowing even novices to thumb through like a swatch book and select exactly what suits their taste. Dazzling photographs, as well as crucial advice on effective plant combinations, seasonal planting, and decorative flourishes, ensure that every garden will be a sensual delight, brimming with color and texture. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1584796448
Book size: —; Page extent: 112.

 

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Sue Snell
The Gardens At Hatfield

2007 y.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Description: The re-creation of the great garden at Hatfield House has been one of the most exciting and closely observed garden enterprises of the last thrity years. Now, at last, it is recorded and displayed in this revelatory book. Sue Snell has been photographing there for years, and with the help of the Dowager Marchioness, she now [detailed...]

ISBN: 0711225168
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace

2007 y.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Description: This book explores the history of the Hampton Court Palace landscape. Among the many themes it addresses are the role and impact of patrons, designers and estate workers, planting and horticultural techniques, statuary, fountains and other garden ornaments, and maintenance and conservation. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0711223688
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Ada V. Segre
The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665 (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Garden History)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This fascinating two-volume set includes a photographic reproduction of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian gardener`s notebook from Dumbarton Oaks`s Rare Books Collection. The notebook is a record of the planting of three flower gardens at San Lorenzo. It is now believed that the gardens were created for Margherita de` Medici Farnese, duchess of Parma and Piacenza. The notebook provides insight into the creation of a seventeenth-century garden, from identifying flowers to planning flowerbeds. In turn, these sketches reveal the gardener`s own intentions and reflections on the designs. Ada Segre`s accompanying study of the notebook is a groundbreaking example of garden archaeology. She considers its provenance and connection to the world of the duchess and her gardens. Segre also evaluates the importance of the manuscript as an object and as a source of information on garden design and practice in Italy during the … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0884023028
Book size: —; Page extent: 194.

 

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Derek Fell
The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Best known for his strikingly modern structures, Frank Lloyd Wright was also a highly influential landscape designer. The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright is the first book in full color to focus on Wright’s four most famous residential landscapes: his first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, his magnificent 3,000-acre summer home Taliesin, in Wisconsin, his 600-acre winter home Taliesin West, in Arizona, and Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, the commission that made him world famous. The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, as well as extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, the book also explores the Japanese and Mayan landscapes that inspired Wright and his appreciation of the stone meeting circles and naturalistic prairie plantings of the great landscape architect Jens Jensen. Planting plans allow readers to create prairie- and desert-style gardens of their very own. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0711229678
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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Kim J. Hartswick
The Gardens of Sallust : A Changing Landscape

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionPleasure gardens, or horti, offered elite citizens of ancient Rome a retreat from the noise and grime of the city, where they could take their leisure and even conduct business amid lovely landscaping, architecture, and sculpture. One of the most important and beautiful of these gardens was the Horti Sallustiani, originally developed by the Roman historian Sallust at the end of the first century B.C. and later possessed and perfected by a series of Roman emperors. Though now irrevocably altered by two millennia of human history, the Gardens of Sallust endure as a memory of beauty and as a significant archaeological site, where fragments of sculpture and ruins of architecture are still being discovered. In this ambitious work, Kim Hartswick undertakes the first comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust from Roman times to the present, as well as its influence on generations of scholars, intellectuals, and archaeologists. He draws from an astonishing array of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0292705476
Book size: —; Page extent: 233.

 

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Pierre-Andre Lablaude
The Gardens of Versailles

2005 y.
Publisher: Editions Scala France
Description: It was after the devastating storms in 1990 that a huge scheme to restore the park of Versailles was agreed. Its implementation was entrusted to Pierre-Andre Lablaude, chief architect of the Historic Monuments department, the challenge he was set was to reinstate the original layout as closely as possible. This ambitious undertaking required considerable research to rediscover both the general principles underlying the landscaping and the details of the various decorative, botanical or hydraulic innovations, at the successive periods during which these famous gardens were created. Here the author retraces the history of the gardens of Versailles, from the small estate acquired by Louis XIII for hunting up to the present-day park which attracts crowds of visitors and tourists, by way of that splendid, completely unique period when Versailles became the extraordinary symbol of the Sun King. Trees planted or transplanted, pools and canals, sculptures and bosquets, everything was… [detailed...]

ISBN: 2 86656 360 3
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Ulrich Boser
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World`s Largest Unsolved Art Theft

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld—the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get them back Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5-million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth a total of $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and one of the nation`s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked on the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser inherited his case files. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith`s unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including the brilliant rock `n` roll art thief, the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0061451835
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: GREAT CONDITION, WILL SHIP FAST! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385524943
Book size: —; Page extent: 480.

 

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Mo Yan
The Garlic Ballads: A Novel

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Now back in print, this epic novel of beauty and brutality, set in a landscape at once strange and alluring, paints a portrait of a people whose fierce passions break the rigid confines of their ancient traditions. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1559707755
Book size: —; Page extent: 308.

 

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Alexander Kuprin
The Garnet Bracelet and Other Stories

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionStories contained in this volume: Moloch Olesya Night Duty The White Poodle I Was An Actor The Gambrinus Emerald The Garnet Bracelet Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a writing career, and was a friend of Maxim Gorky. He won fame with The Duel (1905), a novel of protest against the Russian military system. In 1909, Yama: The Pit, his novel dealing with prostitution in Odessa, created a sensation. Kuprin left Russia after the revolution but returned in 1937. Some of his best short stories of action and adventure appear in The Garnet Bracelet, originally published in 1917. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1410102351
Book size: —; Page extent: 388.

 

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Mark Bonter
The Gasfactor: The Cost of Short Trips Around Town

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0981842208
Book size: —; Page extent: 76.

 

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Edward Gorey
The Gashlycrumb Tinies

1997 y.
Publisher: Harcourt
Description: A new, small-format edition of one of Gorey’s “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0151003084
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Dr. Robin Stern
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0767924452
Book size: —; Page extent: 269.

 

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Adrian Daniel, Michael Daniel
The Gate Easy Vegetarian Cookbook

2007 y.
Publisher: MITCH
Description: Some cooks believe that the words `easy` and `vegetarian` just don`t go together. The chef-proprietors of London`s famous Gate Restaurant prove how wrong that idea can be with an impressive collection of their simplest recipes - luscious and amazingly varied dishes made with just a few easily accessible ingredients. The menu includes Italian polenta chips, Eastern European blinis, Middle Eastern tabbouleh, Indian bhel poori, and Asian rice paper spring rolls, among many others. There are fusion dishes such as grilled eggplant with lemongrass salsa, flatbread pizzas, and butternut squash and cauliflower samosas. As more and more people decide to go vegetarian (whether full-time or part-time), the Daniels make it easier, and more deliciously tempting, than ever before. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1845332598
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Natsume Soseki, Francis Mathy, Soseki Natsume, Damian Flanagan
The Gate

2005 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0720612500
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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