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Platt, Christine A.

Summary: "Ana & Andrew get to start a backyard garden! They go along to the nursery to pick up peanut seedlings. While they're planting, Mama and Papa tell them about one of the first African American botanists, George Washington Carver"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA

Smith, Katy Simpson

Summary: "Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Khavari, Kate

Summary: "Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues' beliefs about women's academic inabilities and not-so-subtle hints that her deceased father's reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Baker, Kage.

Summary: Sent 150,000 years back in time from the twenty-fourth century as punishment for avenging the death of her lover, Mendoza pines for her lost love and tends her garden, until a familiar time-traveling renegade arrives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TOR Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAK

Lowell, Joanna

Summary: "A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance. Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of becoming a duchess. But family disgrace forces her into marriage with the most vile duke in England, and she finds herself desperate for a way out. When a rustic stranger mistakes her for globe-trotting botanist Muriel Pendrake at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOW

Eglin, Anthony.

Summary: Caught up in a centuries-old family conflict when he investigates a murder on the grounds of Shugborough Hall, Laurence Kingston tracks down clues pertaining to a code contained within an ancient, unbreakable garden monument.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGL

Lam, Laura

Summary: "A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race; perfect for readers of The Martian, The Power, and Station Eleven.Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM

Khavari, Kate

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

Diop, David

Summary: "A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIO

Gilbert, Elizabeth

4 holds on 1 copy

Summary: " 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 Committed. In 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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King, SJ

Summary: "Leah the biology expert and Gustavo the history buff are whisked away on a mission to a forest in North Carolina. There, they meet a botanist working to protect the amazing Venus flytrap--an endangered species of plant--from being stolen by poachers andsold for money. It'll take every bit of brainpower, bravery, and expertise that Leah and Gustavo have to stop the poachers and rescue the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIN

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIN

Elkins, Aaron J.

Summary: Forensics professor Gideon Oliver's supposedly peaceful Amazon riverboat jaunt with a group of research botanists turns deadly when one of the scientists is killed by a deranged passenger who then leaps overboard in the darkness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELK

Quick, Amanda.

Summary: Consulting on the investigation into a lord's murder, botanist Lucinda Bromley realizes that a poison can be traced back to her, prompting her to hire fellow Arcane Society member Caleb Jones to keep her name out of the investigation and to find the murderer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Quick, Amanda.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUI

Eglin, Anthony.

Summary: Searching for a missing botanist friend, Lawrence Kingston discovers that the missing man had been experimenting with aquatic plants and had been on the verge of announcing a horticultural breakthrough that could generate billions of dollars in revenue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGL

Alexis, André

Summary: "Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. As Alfred and the Professor encounter towns with familiar names but where Black residents speak only in sign...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coach House Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALE

Blair, E. A. (Edward A.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scrivenery Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

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