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April Showers Bring May Flowers Nonfiction
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The big, bad book of botany : The World's Most Fascinating Flora
by Michael Largo
This guide to strange, rare and wonderful plants includes information on vegetation that has been purported in mythology to turn people to stone, raise the dead, poison and heal as well as provides the fascinating history and evolution of modern agriculture.
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Chasing the rose : an adventure in the Venetian countryside
by Andrea Di Robilant
On a quest to discover the identity of a pink rose that grows wild on his family's former country estate, the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair takes readers back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte and into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today. 50,000 first printing.
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Flora : inside the secret world of plants
by Inc DK Publishing
This beautiful introduction to botany and the mysterious inner workings of the plant world photographically celebrates the trees, flowers and foliage that share our planet.
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Floral Diplomacy at the White House
by Laura Dowling
Laura Dowling served as Chief Floral Designer at the White House form 2009 until 2015. In this unique position, she managed décor and flowers for thousands of White House events while using flowers as a strategic tool for communicating diplomatic, symbolic and policy messages. Here, she describes her inspiration, provides tips and techniques on flower arranging and entertaining, and offers readers a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into both official and private White House life.
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Flowering plants : a pictorial guide to the world's flora
by Leon Gray
Provides information on more than one hundred flowering plant families, offering entries describing the plant's physical features and distribution and economic uses, along with detailed color illustrations showing the plant's anatomy, with all parts labeled in Latin and English
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The Language of Flowers : A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic
by Odessa Begay
With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for flower lovers. A sumptuous, contemporary anthology of 50 of the world's most storied and popular flowers, each of its entries offers insight to the meaning associated with the flower, and is a fascinating mix of foklore, classic mythology, literature, botanical information and popular culture.
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The orchid thief
by Susan Orlean
A staff writer for The New Yorker describes the life and times of John Laroche, a plant smuggler and orchid thief, and the eccentric world of Florida's obsessed collectors of rare plants. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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The Rose in Fashion : Ravishing
by Amy De LA Haye
An exploration of how the rose-the most ravishingly beautiful and symbolic of flowers-has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing is a fascinating exploration of how the rose has inspired the way we look, dress, feel, and fantasize. It foregrounds innovative, refined, and challenging fashion design from elite 18th-century woven silks to the latest gender-neutral catwalk trends and Alexander McQueen rose dresses. Drawing upon fashion clothing, everyday dress, millinery, fine jewelry, perfume, and artificial and fresh roses, multiple expert contributors make reference to love, beauty, sex, sin, gendered identities, rites of passage, transgression, degradation, and death. This sumptuously illustrated book also includes a contribution and stunning images of roses by visionary photographer Nick Knight. Wild yet cultivated, savage yet delicate, this flower has remained an enduring symbol perhaps due to its versatility and the dichotomies it represents.
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Seeing flowers : discover the hidden life of flowers
by Teri Dunn Chace
Presents photographs of twenty-eight of the most common families of flowering plants with accompanying essays highlighting distinguishing features, including daisies, geraniums, and orchids
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