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• Fayne

  MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-

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  In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greenwood

  a Novel

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  They come for the trees. It is 2038. As the rest of humanity struggles through the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide on Greenwood Island, a remote oasis of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Garden Spells

  Allen, Sarah Addison

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  The Waverlys are considered a curious family in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina and their garden has a reputation for growing mystical plants. Claire's rebellious sister Sydney returns home with her young daughter turning Claire's life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Signature of All Things

  Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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  Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weyward

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia,

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  "2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Language of Flowers

  Diffenbaugh, Vanessa

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  The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsheltered

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birth House

  McKay, Ami, 1968-

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  Practicing midwife Dora Rare works in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia during the early part of the twentieth century, but the midwifery tradition is threatened when medical doctor Gilbert Thomas arrives with promises of fast, painless childbirth.

• Where the Crawdads Sing

  Owens, Delia

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  For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• State of Wonder

  Patchett, Ann

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  Marina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel, a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, and inconveniently in love with her boss, Mr. Fox. When one of her colleagues is reported to have died while following up on the progress of a field team based…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

• The Fair Botanists

  Sheridan, Sara, 1968-

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  It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monkey Beach

  Robinson, Eden

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  Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family's handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wide Sargasso Sea

  Rhys, Jean,

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  Jean Rhys's late masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre , and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anthill

  a Novel

  Wilson, Edward O.

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  Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around which he lives, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Naturalist

  York, Alissa

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  It is 1867, Philadelphia. More at ease among his books than in the field, Paul Ash takes a reluctant leave of absence from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology to accompany his grieving stepmother and her young companion to the fabled River Sea.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washington Black

  a Novel

  Edugyan, Esi

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  Washington Black, an eleven-year-old slave, is chosen to be the manservant of naturalist Christopher Wilde who takes him on adventures around the globe.

• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

  Ringland, Holly,

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  After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uprooted

  Novik, Naomi

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  Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Garden

  Humphreys, Helen, 1961-

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  This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon…Read moreRead more of this annotation