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1) Storm Front
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she is tailing a man who has smuggled out an extraordinary relic, a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation,...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers was brought into the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension by a promise from Lucas Davenport: "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. This is the third murder in just as many weeks, and it's becoming clear that Flowers has stepped into a killer's...
3) Flowers
Author
Series
Eyewitness explorers volume 3
Language
English
Description
A young explorer's guide to flowers, discussing their different parts, their purpose, and how they bloom; looking at color and scent; examining different types of flowers and seeds; and including suggestions for flower-related projects and observations.
4) Shock wave
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
When protests about a superstore chain's plans to build a location in a Minnesota river town escalate into bombing attacks at the construction site and the company's headquarters, Virgil Flowers races against time to find and stop the bomber.
5) Deep freeze
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt -- and as it turned out, homicidal -- local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter,...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Decorate your desk, home, wedding or next get-together with these professional looking paper blossoms! This stunningly photographed book presents detailed instructions for eleven beautiful and lifelike paper flower projects that will enhance any home or occasion. Origami expert Naomiki Sato starts by showing you how to fold seven types of paper roses using a variety of techniques for four- and five-sided blossoms, along with their stems, thorns and...
9) Deadline
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers...
Author
Publisher
White Owl, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The delicate art of paper flower craft has been around for centuries, originating in China in 100BC. This beautifully photographed book contains projects for every skill level. Step-by-step instructions and inspiring illustrations will guide you through the process from start to finish. You'll discover the colour, texture and detail of nature as you learn how to create your own lifelike floral decorations. Paper flower crafting is a fun hobby, perfect...
11) Mad River
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
12) The Peskie spell
Author
Series
Fairy realm volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Realm, Jessie searches for the flower needed to combat a plague of mischief causing Peskies. The magical world of the Realm has a terrible problem, a plague of mischievous, troublemaking Peskies. A wild west wind has brought the tiny creatures down from the hills in the thousands. They're making life in the Realm impossible, and eating up all the magic! It's been hundreds of years since the last Peskie plague, and even Queen Helena...
13) Flowers
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fully-illustrated catalog of plants, with identification, preservation, and flower arrangement information and tips for selecting, buying, and preparing floral designs.
Author
Publisher
Artisan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Amy Merrick is a rare and special kind of artist who uses flowers to help us see the familiar in a completely new way. Her gift is to revel in the unexpected--like a sunny spring arrangement housed in a paper coffee cup--and to overturn preconceptions, whether she's transforming a bouquet of supermarket carnations into a breathtaking centerpiece or elevating wild and weedy blooms foraged from city sidewalks. She uses the beauty that is waiting to...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on sources both ancient and modern, and featuring lush full-color illustrations and gorgeous line art throughout, Potter examines our changing relationship with these potent plants and the effects they had on civilizations through the ages. The opium poppy, for example, returned to haunt its progenitors in the West, becoming the source of an enormously profitable drug trade in Asia. In the seventeenth century, the irrational exuberance of...
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