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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this suspenseful Arcane Society novel, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delves into the underworld of passion, greed and powers that lie beyond this realm.
Victorian botanist Lucinda Bromley has a rare talent: the ability to detect almost any type of poison. She also tends many rare plants, including a species of fern that was stolen from her conservatory just last month—and which turns up in a poison...
Victorian botanist Lucinda Bromley has a rare talent: the ability to detect almost any type of poison. She also tends many rare plants, including a species of fern that was stolen from her conservatory just last month—and which turns up in a poison...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When garden designer Addison, along with her husband, take up residence at an old English manor, she stumbles upon a mystery, dating back to World War II, that involves the enchanting camellia orchard and an old gardener's notebook, which conceals a series of horrible crimes.
4) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two women—a reluctant botanist and a thief indentured to an English botanist—connected across time, catalog species growing through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, calculating intangible threats and the ways repeated violence can upend women’s lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attempting to blaze a new trail for women at the University College London in 1923, research assistant Saffron Everleigh becomes involved in solving the murder of a professor’s wife who appeared to have been poisoned at a school dinner party.
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