Author: Jo Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780724379
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walking one day in the woods behind her cottage in Devon, nature illustrator and blogger Jo Brown became captivated by the sight of a Green Dock Beetle on a leaf and took a photograph of it in order to be able to draw it. That first tiny emerald bug was followed by more insects, and then birds, fungi, plants and flowers. The result is Secrets of a Devon Wood, a rich illustrated memory of her discoveries in the order in which she encountered them, so that the book flows smoothly with the seasons and the emergence of different wildlife. In enchanting, minute detail she zooms in on a bog beacon mushroom, a buff-tailed bumblebee, or a native bluebell. And she notes facts about their physiology and life history: "The flowers are narrow & darker than H. hispanica & H.x. mossartiana," she writes. "Drooping stem. Almost all flowers are on one side. Sweet scent." This journal is a treat for the senses, both a hymn to the intricate beauty of the natural world and a quiet call to arms for all of us to acknowledge and preserve it. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finally put it down
Secrets of a Devon Wood
Author: Jo Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780724379
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walking one day in the woods behind her cottage in Devon, nature illustrator and blogger Jo Brown became captivated by the sight of a Green Dock Beetle on a leaf and took a photograph of it in order to be able to draw it. That first tiny emerald bug was followed by more insects, and then birds, fungi, plants and flowers. The result is Secrets of a Devon Wood, a rich illustrated memory of her discoveries in the order in which she encountered them, so that the book flows smoothly with the seasons and the emergence of different wildlife. In enchanting, minute detail she zooms in on a bog beacon mushroom, a buff-tailed bumblebee, or a native bluebell. And she notes facts about their physiology and life history: "The flowers are narrow & darker than H. hispanica & H.x. mossartiana," she writes. "Drooping stem. Almost all flowers are on one side. Sweet scent." This journal is a treat for the senses, both a hymn to the intricate beauty of the natural world and a quiet call to arms for all of us to acknowledge and preserve it. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finally put it down
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780724379
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walking one day in the woods behind her cottage in Devon, nature illustrator and blogger Jo Brown became captivated by the sight of a Green Dock Beetle on a leaf and took a photograph of it in order to be able to draw it. That first tiny emerald bug was followed by more insects, and then birds, fungi, plants and flowers. The result is Secrets of a Devon Wood, a rich illustrated memory of her discoveries in the order in which she encountered them, so that the book flows smoothly with the seasons and the emergence of different wildlife. In enchanting, minute detail she zooms in on a bog beacon mushroom, a buff-tailed bumblebee, or a native bluebell. And she notes facts about their physiology and life history: "The flowers are narrow & darker than H. hispanica & H.x. mossartiana," she writes. "Drooping stem. Almost all flowers are on one side. Sweet scent." This journal is a treat for the senses, both a hymn to the intricate beauty of the natural world and a quiet call to arms for all of us to acknowledge and preserve it. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finally put it down
Escape Theory
Author: Margaux Froley
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616951281
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins (a.k.a. “Hutch”), one of the Keaton’s most popular students, commits suicide. Devon dives into her new role providing support for Hutch’s friends, but she’s haunted by her own attachment to him. The two shared an extraordinary night during their first week freshman year; it was the only time at Keaton when she felt like someone else really understood her. As the secrets and confessions pile up in her sessions, Devon comes to a startling conclusion: Hutch couldn't have taken his own life. Bound by her oath of confidentiality—and tortured by her unrequited love—Devon embarks on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of Hutch's death, and the stakes are higher than she ever could have imagined. Read an excerpt of Escape Theory. http://bit.ly/Yi5DZf
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616951281
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she’s not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford’s psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins (a.k.a. “Hutch”), one of the Keaton’s most popular students, commits suicide. Devon dives into her new role providing support for Hutch’s friends, but she’s haunted by her own attachment to him. The two shared an extraordinary night during their first week freshman year; it was the only time at Keaton when she felt like someone else really understood her. As the secrets and confessions pile up in her sessions, Devon comes to a startling conclusion: Hutch couldn't have taken his own life. Bound by her oath of confidentiality—and tortured by her unrequited love—Devon embarks on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of Hutch's death, and the stakes are higher than she ever could have imagined. Read an excerpt of Escape Theory. http://bit.ly/Yi5DZf
Secret Britain
Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 160765248X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
- An exploration of the most fascinating and beautiful corners of Great Britain, including obscure and less-visited places that receive little coverage in more conventional guides. - Reveals little-known gems that add to the heritage of England, Wales and Scotland. - Discover breath-taking landscapes and buildings, wild hills and spectacular coastlines, ancient castles and stately homes, wide estuaries and hidden valleys. - Every chapter is accompanied by lively commentary, a full-color map, and beautiful photography that captures the unique character of each site. - Includes suggestions for places to stay and nearby attractions
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 160765248X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
- An exploration of the most fascinating and beautiful corners of Great Britain, including obscure and less-visited places that receive little coverage in more conventional guides. - Reveals little-known gems that add to the heritage of England, Wales and Scotland. - Discover breath-taking landscapes and buildings, wild hills and spectacular coastlines, ancient castles and stately homes, wide estuaries and hidden valleys. - Every chapter is accompanied by lively commentary, a full-color map, and beautiful photography that captures the unique character of each site. - Includes suggestions for places to stay and nearby attractions
The Unearthing of Mr. Diggins
Author: Dave Lauby
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Travis Riggins is living the American dream. He has a sexy wife, a sexier truck and a beautiful home set upon a spread of suburban loveliness, and he’s obsessed with protecting both it and his sense of invulnerability against an adversarial world. Yet despite his security cameras and iron gates an intruder manages to breach his defenses, not from without but from below; while digging in his garden, Travis' shovel makes a chilling find, the likes of which he dares not share with the world. It's a discovery which proves but the first of many for Travis, one that launches a series of unearthings which will not be limited to what's buried beneath his feet. Employing equal measures of psychological thriller, historical mystery and social commentary, The Unearthing Of Mr. Diggins breaks through the sculpted facade of Travis' bucolic paradise and explores the secret gardens of the mind, where preconceived notions of race, religion and our most cherished values are challenged and reexamined. Blending elements of humor and horror, Mr. Diggins plunges deep into the murky corners of one man's unexamined life, exposing his secrets to the open air while forcing the reader to stare into its unforgiving mirror. From its first unsettling discovery to its shocking conclusion, The Unearthing Of Mr. Diggins throws its shovel blade against the big questions, revealing our hidden selves and the destructive weeds which infest our psycho-emotional Edens. Prepare to find what’s buried in the dirt...and in the deeper soil of the heart.
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Travis Riggins is living the American dream. He has a sexy wife, a sexier truck and a beautiful home set upon a spread of suburban loveliness, and he’s obsessed with protecting both it and his sense of invulnerability against an adversarial world. Yet despite his security cameras and iron gates an intruder manages to breach his defenses, not from without but from below; while digging in his garden, Travis' shovel makes a chilling find, the likes of which he dares not share with the world. It's a discovery which proves but the first of many for Travis, one that launches a series of unearthings which will not be limited to what's buried beneath his feet. Employing equal measures of psychological thriller, historical mystery and social commentary, The Unearthing Of Mr. Diggins breaks through the sculpted facade of Travis' bucolic paradise and explores the secret gardens of the mind, where preconceived notions of race, religion and our most cherished values are challenged and reexamined. Blending elements of humor and horror, Mr. Diggins plunges deep into the murky corners of one man's unexamined life, exposing his secrets to the open air while forcing the reader to stare into its unforgiving mirror. From its first unsettling discovery to its shocking conclusion, The Unearthing Of Mr. Diggins throws its shovel blade against the big questions, revealing our hidden selves and the destructive weeds which infest our psycho-emotional Edens. Prepare to find what’s buried in the dirt...and in the deeper soil of the heart.
Secrets: Forever Series, Book 4
Author: Eve Newton
Publisher: Catin Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
My sire is lost to me. I don't see how I can forgive him for what he has done. Not this time. But my father has him. It is my duty to rescue him, and then never speak to him again. Once there, I decide to give my father a chance to be a part of my family, but I am unhappy that my only ally is a ghost I can't trust. Or can I? As I am away, my boys struggle to find their way without me as a buffer, and you can finally see what drives them to do the things that they do. What secrets will be revealed in my absence?
Publisher: Catin Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
My sire is lost to me. I don't see how I can forgive him for what he has done. Not this time. But my father has him. It is my duty to rescue him, and then never speak to him again. Once there, I decide to give my father a chance to be a part of my family, but I am unhappy that my only ally is a ghost I can't trust. Or can I? As I am away, my boys struggle to find their way without me as a buffer, and you can finally see what drives them to do the things that they do. What secrets will be revealed in my absence?
The Cornish Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Locker No. 96
Author: Shravan Haricharan Sundaresan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387984802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
SYNOPSIS A twelve-year old orphan named Noah Smith who lives with his grandfather is sucked into his dream by a terribly feared serial killer named Lysander Nicodemus who also happens to be a Vampire and informs Noah that he must save the world inside his head to save the one outside or he'll be killed before dawn and Nicodemus will dominate the world outside of Noah's mind and wreak havoc among the real earth; in Noah's dream is where he encounters a strange world of magic in a weird modern boarding school filled with medieval accessories and ways of detention never imagined, Noah befriends two boys, Oliver Fitchett and Neil Sutter and goes on an adventure to save the world inside and outside his mind.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387984802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
SYNOPSIS A twelve-year old orphan named Noah Smith who lives with his grandfather is sucked into his dream by a terribly feared serial killer named Lysander Nicodemus who also happens to be a Vampire and informs Noah that he must save the world inside his head to save the one outside or he'll be killed before dawn and Nicodemus will dominate the world outside of Noah's mind and wreak havoc among the real earth; in Noah's dream is where he encounters a strange world of magic in a weird modern boarding school filled with medieval accessories and ways of detention never imagined, Noah befriends two boys, Oliver Fitchett and Neil Sutter and goes on an adventure to save the world inside and outside his mind.
Bradshaw's Handbook of the Manufacturing Districts of Great Britain; Furnishing a Very Instructive Detail of the Various Branches of Trade Carried on in the Counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire. Illustrated with [plates And] ... County Maps
Gardeners' Chronicle
Dawn's End
Author: Larry Bills
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595447341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Perched high in a tree like a vulture, Devon looks down on Glory, Texas, sparkling in the darkness. People below will soon feel the full force of this vampire's rage. Evil converges in Glory as three couples struggle with lives full of abuse and infidelity. Alex can't come to grips with his girlfriend, Laura, leaving him. Jenny, a victim of domestic violence, must escape her husband, Ray. Syl and Dave's downfall is becoming embroiled in their friends' dramatic lives. Into this mix comes Rena, a beautiful and benevolent woman. Decades before, with a savage bite, Devon had turned her into his tormented companion. Distraught by how she must survive, Rena had fled his influence. And now Devon wants Rena to pay for betraying him and refusing to share eternal life with him. When Alex meets Rena in the local roadhouse, a spiral of depravity begins to uncoil. Alex and Rena join forces in an attempt to kill Devon and save the lives of their friends. But Devon is bent on destroying whomever he can to get what he wants, and unfortunately for Alex, everyone he cares about is standing in the way.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595447341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Perched high in a tree like a vulture, Devon looks down on Glory, Texas, sparkling in the darkness. People below will soon feel the full force of this vampire's rage. Evil converges in Glory as three couples struggle with lives full of abuse and infidelity. Alex can't come to grips with his girlfriend, Laura, leaving him. Jenny, a victim of domestic violence, must escape her husband, Ray. Syl and Dave's downfall is becoming embroiled in their friends' dramatic lives. Into this mix comes Rena, a beautiful and benevolent woman. Decades before, with a savage bite, Devon had turned her into his tormented companion. Distraught by how she must survive, Rena had fled his influence. And now Devon wants Rena to pay for betraying him and refusing to share eternal life with him. When Alex meets Rena in the local roadhouse, a spiral of depravity begins to uncoil. Alex and Rena join forces in an attempt to kill Devon and save the lives of their friends. But Devon is bent on destroying whomever he can to get what he wants, and unfortunately for Alex, everyone he cares about is standing in the way.