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English
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In 1900, Gray Delacroix has built a successful global spice empire and is tasked with gaining access to the private Delacroix plant collection. Botanist Annabelle Larkin steps into a web of political danger and will be forced to choose between her heart and her loyalty to her country.
2) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue...
4) Lab girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom|s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
British Secret Service agent and middle-aged bon vivant Arthur Hemmings tackles a murderous international conspiracy to control the world's food supply, a case with ties to the double murder of a professor and assistant who had discovered astonishing facts about a plant sex gene.
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees, in order to be a better monitor. Over the years she planned one of the first treetop walkways, and helped create more of these bridges through the 'eighth continent' all over the world. Here "Canopy Meg" launches us into the...
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Language
English
Description
"One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age" (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). What remains today of America's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines we all now take for granted. Ever taken an aspirin? Thank a willow tree for that. What about life-saving medicines for malaria? Some of those are derived from cinchona and wormwood....
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Language
English
Description
" 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 the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
13) Ghost hunter
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After calling off her marriage to ghost-hunter Cooper Boone, Elly St. Clair moves to Cadence City, but the strange disappearance of one of her new friends brings Cooper back into her life, and he's determined not to lose her again.
14) The sakura obsession: the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019.]
Language
English
Description
"Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907. So taken with the plant, he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties. In 1926, he learned that the Great White Cherry had become extinct in Japan. Six years later, he buried a living cutting from his own collection in a potato and repatriated it via the Trans-Siberian...
20) The duke effect
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Despite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms and would rather spend a lifetime in her laboratory than consider affairs of the heart. An expert herbalist, Nora has been masquerading as her late physician father for years, dispensing invaluable medical advice. She corresponds with people all over the world, including an old army colonel. But when the man shows up on her doorstep, he is nothing like she...
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