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The garden against time : in search of a common paradise / by Laing, Olivia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312)."In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden." --
Subjects: Laing, Olivia; Gardening; Gardens; Gardens; Gardens; Historic gardens;
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A little chaos [videorecording] / by Brock, Jeremy,1959-screenwriter.; Deegan, Alison,screenwriter.; Rickman, Alan,screenwriter,film director,actor.; Schoenaerts, Matthias,1977-actor.; Tucci, Stanley,actor.; Winslet, Kate,actor.; Focus World (Firm),presenter,publisher.; Lionsgate UK,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Nicolas Gaster ; music composed by Peter Gregson.Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman.A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270; Artists; Feature films.; Gardens; Historical films.; Landscape design; Romance films.;
For private home use only.
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The lavender garden : a novel / by Riley, Lucinda,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Country homes; World War, 1939-1945;
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Buckingham Palace gardens : a novel / by Perry, Anne;
Subjects: Murder; Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character); Prostitutes; Historical fiction; Mystery fiction;
© c2008., Ballantine Books,
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The last garden in England / by Kelly, Julia,1986-author.;
"From the author of The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and heartwrenching tale of five women in three eras, whose lives are tied together by one very special garden"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gardens; Secrecy; Women;
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The bullet garden / by Hunter, Stephen,1946-author.;
During the D-Day invasion, sniper Earl Swagger embarks on a secret and dangerous mission to find the spy who is tipping off the Germans about American positions.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Snipers; Swagger, Earl (Fictitious character); World War, 1939-1945;
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Garden of sins / by Rowland, Laura Joh,author.;
In 1890 London, while rescuing victims of a train crash, crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett and her detective husband discover a woman who has been strangled to death.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Murder; Women photographers; Women private investigators;
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Essa, the garden of Simcoe County : a history of the Township from 1950 to 2000 / by Cumming, Jean; Essa Historical Society;
© c2000., Essa Historical Society,
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The bullet garden [sound recording] / by Hunter, Stephen,1946-author.; Dove, Eric G.,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Eric G. Dove.During the D-Day invasion, sniper Earl Swagger embarks on a secret and dangerous mission to find the spy who is tipping off the Germans about American positions.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); War fiction.; Snipers; Swagger, Earl (Fictitious character); World War, 1939-1945;
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Murder in the queen's garden / by Carmack, Amanda.;
The discovery of a skeleton in Elizabeth's garden casts suspicion on a famed astrologer, leading Elizabeth to asks for Kate's help when the doctor's pupil becomes the second victim.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603; Haywood, Kate (Fictitious character); Murder;
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