I Love Dandelions

I Love Dandelions
Author: August E Allen
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-02
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ISBN:

With charming illustrations and entertaining characters, I Love Dandelions brings the magic of nature into the hearts of children - beginning with the humble dandelion! Join Theodore W. Mouse and his little sister, Mirabella, as the lowly dandelion leads them on an exciting adventure of discovery. The mystery and bounty of the natural world provides a lesson in microcosm to the two little mice through the curious transformation of the dandelion flower. One spring day, Theodore and Mirabella happen upon a field filled with "droplets of sunshine." The discovery captures the fascinated attention of the siblings, but it is only much later that the secret of the tiny dandelion flower reveals itself. The magic of dandelions unfolds beautifully on each page as readers tag along while the whimsical mice learn, wide-eyed, about the natural life cycle of dandelions - beginning with the sun to "little full moons" and ending as stars floating on a breeze! Hidden in this enchanting story is a simple science lesson for young readers that will encourage explorations of the natural world found just outside their door. Praise for I Love Dandelions: "Along with Theodore W. Mouse, the frolicsome main character, and his sister, Mirabella (Bella for short), children discover the wondrous world of dandelions, and the essential role they play in the natural world." "A splendid synthesis of art and prose! I Love Dandelions conveys a child's awareness of the beauty and wonder of dandelions with reverence and delight." "This book is absolutely lovely! I Love Dandelions teaches all that although something may be a nuisance to one, it is an exemplar gift to another." From the Author: "Though these highly prolific plants are often thought of as a nuisance, dandelions are the most visited plant by important pollinators out of all the plants growing in urban settings. If more people were aware of the essential services dandelions provide, and welcomed them into their yards, they may be surprised to discover the magic that this little flower carries. You see, from root to flower dandelions are beneficial."

Unearthing The Secret Garden

Unearthing The Secret Garden
Author: Marta McDowell
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1604699906

Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.

The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Author: James Hearst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.

When in French

When in French
Author: Lauren Collins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 014311073X

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn’t understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does “I love you” even mean the same thing as “je t’aime”? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collins—fearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesn’t understand her own kids—decides to answer her questions for herself by learning French. When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languages—and what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that she’s given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and society—which, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity’s many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.

Blindsight

Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429955198

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

No One Heard Her Scream

No One Heard Her Scream
Author: Jordan Dane
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061736422

Burdened by Grief, She Hunts a Killer They never found her sister's body, but Detective Rebecca Montgomery knows her murderer is still out there. In the five months since Danielle went missing, there have been two more brutal abductions. A savage menace stalks the women of San Antonio, and the relentless detective will do anything to find him. And a Seductive Stranger Shadows Her Every Move But her latest case—the discovery of a young woman's remains inside the wall of a burned-down theater—plunges Rebecca from her grief into a brand-new nightmare. She soon meets handsome, mysterious Diego Galvan at the crime scene, and his shadowy connections will lead to her first break in both cases. But when Rebecca submits to his considerable powers of seduction, she will leave herself vulnerable to a merciless killer . . . and when he attacks, no one will hear her scream.

Delirium

Delirium
Author: Lauren Oliver
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062069543

Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. Lauren Oliver astonished readers with her stunning debut, Before I Fall. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it "raw, emotional, and, at times, beautiful. An end as brave as it is heartbreaking." Her much-awaited second novel fulfills her promise as an exceptionally talented and versatile writer.

Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )

Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )
Author: Andy Clark
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437903797

Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.