Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year-Round Gardens
A dense, lush, ever-blooming landscape is something that many gardeners dream of. Selecting the right plants can go a long way toward making that dream a reality. Noted plantsman Adrian Bloom offers his advice on color, texture, height, hardiness, and location of perennials and grasses that can give your garden all of the desired, glorious effects.
Fireworks Over Toccoa
The countryside of Northern Georgia is the setting for Stepakoff's lushly romantic tale. It's the summer of 1945, and Lily Davis Woodward is nervously awaiting the return of her soldier husband, Paul, whom she hasn't seen in three years. A chance meeting with another recently returned soldier, pyrotechnics expert Jake Russo, changes her life forever. The chemistry between the two of them is exciting, explosive, forbidden--and leaves Lily torn between duty to a husband she doesn't know and a man she fears might be her one true love. A debut sure to please fans of Nicholas Sparks.
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
One hundred settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia, in 1587. It quickly became apparent that more supplies and reinforcements were needed, so their leader, John White, undertook a voyage back to England. Upon returning to the island three years later, White found the place to be uninhabited, with no trace of the people he had left behind. Following his book on the more successful Jamestown colony (A Land as God Made It, 2005), author James Horn sheds light on new evidence as he tells the story behind one of American history's greatest mysteries.
Nowhere to Run: A Joe Pickett Novel
A confrontation with two suspected poachers almost turns deadly for Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett in the outstanding 10th entry in Box's award-winning series (after 2009's Below Zero). After being ambushed and nearly killed by twin brothers Caleb and Camish Grim, Joe becomes determined to bring the anti-government survivalists to justice. At the same time, Joe is concerned about a woman he saw with the duo just before they attacked him. Could it be Olympic runner Diane Shober, who disappeared in the mountains several years ago? Impossible to put down.
The Tale of Halcyon Crane
Thirtysomething divorcee Hallie James is shocked to receive a letter from a woman claiming to be her mother, Madlyn Crane. Hallie's father, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's, had told her that her mother died in a fire when Hallie was six. Determined to get to the truth, Hallie journeys to her mother's hometown, a remote island in the middle of the Great Lakes. It is there that she finds out that her mother recently died, and that everything her father told her about her past is a lie. Webb's debut is a gripping Gothic tale full of romance and paranormal suspense.
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