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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases...
3) Flowerheart
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Clara accidentally curses her father with wild magic, and in order to save him, she makes a dangerous bargain with a local wizard, who happens to be her childhood best friend.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the pursuit of a better life, seventeen-year-old flower hunter Irinya and her childhood best friend find a priceless silver spider lily, only to have it fall into the wrong hands, leading Irinya on a perilous quest to reclaim the magical flower.
Irinya has wanted to be a flower hunter ever since her mother disappeared into the mysterious mist of the Rann salt flats one night. Now she uses her knowledge of magical flowers to help her caravan survive...
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"Saffron embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for Saffron's assistance. The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poisonous flowers. Digging deeper, Saffron discovers that the bouquets may be more than just unpleasant flowers--there...
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Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice! Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she'd earned minimum wage and even less respect, she's bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can't seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides...
8) Just flowers
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Izzy's grumpy neighbor insists Izzy remove unwanted flowers from his rose garden, but instead of discarding them, Izzy spreads the joy to others, leading to a town blossoming with a rainbow of flowers.
10) Alison's zinnia
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
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Alison acquired an amaryllis for Beryl who bought a begonia for Crystal--and so on through the alphabet, as full-page illustrations are presented of each flower.
11) Mood indigo
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.
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Riverhead Books
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English
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Panicking when her relationship with a mediocre boyfriend ends at the same time her friends are committing to marriage and parenthood, Prudence Whistler redefines her concepts of happiness when she opens her home to her dysfunctional family.
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Publisher
Cassava Republic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Sex and friendship, ambition and political intrigue, secrets and betrayal will set the fate of two slaves -- Jamila and Abimelech -- in this [...] debut novel. Inspired by the only existing first-person narrative of an Abyssianian slave in Iran, Jamila Habashi, In the Palace of Flowers recreates the opulet Persian royal court of the Qajars at the end of the nineteenth century. This is a precarious time of growing public dissent, foreign interference...
15) The little snake
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Publisher
Neugebauer Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
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Through her love for a beautiful flower, a lonely snake undergoes a magical change.
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English
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"Novel by Jean Genet, written while he was in prison for burglary and published in 1944 in French as Notre-Dame des fleurs. The novel and the author were championed by many contemporary writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau, who helped engineer a pardon for Genet. A wildly imaginative fantasy of the Parisian underworld, the novel tells the story of Divine, a male prostitute who consorts with thieves, pimps, murderers, and other criminals...
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Brigitte-Buch-Edition die Liebesromane volume Bd. 17
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Gruner + Jahr
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Deutsch
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Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Belinda grows flowers. Adam raises bees for honey. They help each other out, because that's what neighbors do. When Adam has to take a job in town, Belinda takes care of his bees. He tells himself that this arrangement is strictly business, even if Belinda is sweet as honey.
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