Waxman, Abbi
Summary: "Young widow Lilian Girvan can't see the garden for the weeds... It's been three years since her husband was killed in a car accident and Lilian is still getting used to being sane--after that one early breakdown. She's happy just being able to get her two girls to school every morning, keep her illustrating job, and catch up on her favorite TV shows with her sister. She's not exactly in a rut;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAIDairman, Tara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End, until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAIWhite, Barbara Claypole
Summary: Following her husband's death, gardener Tilly Silverberg returns to England where she embarks on a relationship with American software developer James Nealy, who, to conquer his fears and compulsions, needs to plant a garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WHIAbrego, Rii
Summary: "Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites' magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she'll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC ABRSheth, Kashmira
Summary: It's Take Your Child to Work Day, and Nina, Kavita, and Jay are all going to work with Mom, a landscape architect, to learn how to start a garden. Naturally that's not enough for Nina, who quickly develops big plans for a business selling the vegetables she plans to grow. But her plans don't include managing the problems that inevitably arise, including rabbits, slugs, mosquitos, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGLHirahara, Naomi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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Summary: "Alex and Kate Sheppard have found their dream house. Nestled deep in the Wiltshire countryside and surrounded by a two-acre walled garden, The Parsonage was to be their own little paradise. Soon after moving in, they make an impossible exciting discovery. Defying the laws of nature and science, a blue rosebush is flourishing in their walled garden. The Sheppards' are plunged into a world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M EGLMartin, Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBuckley, Jonathan
Summary: "A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide. What might be a gloomy subject is instead alluring, lit from within by a lively deep knowledge of human nature: Buckley's eye for motivations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BuckleyBarsa, Michael
Summary: The adult son of an acclaimed horror writer is forced to confront his family's past after the "accidental" death of his parents. When his father, a critically acclaimed horror writer, dies in a car accident, Milo is free. No more nightmarish readings, spooky animal rites, or moonlit visions of his father in the woods with a notebook and vampire make-up. Milo settles into a quiet life and begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underland Press 2018
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Summary: "Blue has been living as a ghost for a year when he meets Hamal, a beautiful and sweet gardener who has the ability to see and communicate with spirits. Together, their friendship develops into something more, but being a ghost, Blue can never truly connect with Hamal. When Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect Hamal--even if it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group 2022
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Summary: "Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2012
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Summary: Nina Soni is a lovable, distractible Indian American girl with big plans and cast of family and friends to help her make her realize her dreams, or resolve the chaos that often results. A long rainy stretch during spring break has Nina restless and hungry for a new project and aggravated with little sister Kavita's embarrassing behavior. Then, a fresh pile of dirt is delivered to the neighbor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plot's on opening day. After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she's happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it's only natural to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKane, Jessica Francis
Summary: A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kane 2019McKillip, Patricia A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKVaz, Katherine
Summary: "John Alves, son of a famous Presbyterian martyr on the Portuguese island of Madeira, spends his childhood in jail and in poverty. When he meets Mary Freitas--though the adopted daughter of a master botanist, her true lineage is the subject of dangerous rumor--a spark kindles a lasting bond. But soon their families must confront the rising blood tide of warfare between Catholics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAZStine, Alison
Summary: "Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971