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Climate-wise landscaping : practical actions for a sustainable future / by Reed, Sue,1953-author.; Stibolt, Ginny,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Climate-Wise Landscaping presents hundreds of practical actions to help homeowners and gardeners shrink the carbon footprint of every landscape, and create yards that will flourish in new, challenging conditions. Ideal for homeowners, gardeners, and landscape professionals who want to be part of the solution to climate change."--
Subjects: Landscape gardening; Landscaping industry; Sustainable living.;
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Gardening in a changing world : plants, people and the climate crisis / by Moore, Darryl,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Darryl Moore is an award-winning garden and landscape designer and writer focusing on contemporary garden and landscape design and planting. He is director and co-founder of the innovative urban landscape organization Cityscapes, realizing creative approaches to greening city spaces through novel design ideas that ensure ecological, economic and social sustainability. His book Gardening in a changing world is essential reading for professionals and students of horticulture and garden and landscape design -- and anyone interested in showcasing sustainability and ecology in public places.
Subjects: Gardening; Landscape gardening; Landscaping industry;
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Playing the long game : a memoir / by Sinclair, Christine,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. 'Playing the Long Game' is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport. Sinclair was born and raised in Burnaby, BC.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sinclair, Christine, 1983-; Soccer players; Women soccer players;
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The Borgias : the hidden history / by Meyer, G. J.,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: One Whom All Did Fear -- Part One. Alonso, From Out of Nowhere -- A Most Improbable Pope -- Background: The Road to Rome -- Surprises, Disappointments, Hope -- Background: Il Regno-The Kingdom -- Pope and King, Friends No More -- Background: Amazing Italy -- Family Matters -- Background: The Men in the Red Hats -- The End of the Beginning -- Part Two. Rodrigo, A Long Apprenticeship -- Surviving -- Background: The Eternal City, Eternally Reborn -- Pius II : Troubles Rumored and Real -- Background: Il Papa -- Paul II : The Poisoned Chalice -- Background: The Inextinguishable Evil-Heads -- Sixtus IV : Disturbing the Peace -- Background: War, Italian Style -- Innocent VIII : Plumbing the Depths -- Part Three. Alexander, Pope At Last -- The Best Man for the Job -- Background: Madness and Milan -- The Coming of the French -- Background: The Paternity Question : An "Apology" -- The French Depart -- Background: Florence : An Anti-Renaissance -- A Shattering Loss -- Background: The Young Ones -- Valentino -- Part Four. Cesare, Caesar or Nothing -- The Landscape Changes -- Background: Venice, Serene No More -- Conqueror -- Background: The Angel's Castle -- "Longing for Greatness and Renown" -- Background: The Newest Profession -- Settling Scores -- Background: The Great Discoveries -- Man of Destiny -- Background: Superstitions : Another Side of the Renaissance -- Alone -- Aftermath -- Examining Old Assumptions.
Subjects: Borgia family.; Nobility; Renaissance;
© c2013., Bantam Books,
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Groundbreaking food gardens : 73 plans that will change the way you grow your garden / by Jabbour, Niki.;
Subjects: Edible landscaping.; Food crops.; Fruit.; Vegetable gardening.; Vegetables.;
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Find me in Havana / by Burdick, Serena,author.;
Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter, Nina, is blindsided by her mother's mysterious death. Seeking answers, the grieving Nina navigates the troubling, opulent memories of their life together and discovers how much Estelita sacrificed to live the American dream on her own terms. Based on true events and exclusive interviews with Nina Lopez, Estelita's daughter, Find Me in Havana weaves two unforgettable voices into one extraordinary story that explores the unbreakable bond between mother and child, and the ever-changing landscape of self-discovery.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Rodriguez, Estelita, 1928-1966; Mothers and daughters; Actresses;
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The disappearance of Astrid Bricard / by Lester, Natasha,1973-author.;
"In 1973, fashion icon Astrid Bricard disappeared at the legendary Versailles designer show-down. All that remained was a scrap of fabric ... and a family unraveled. Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. An iconic photo capturing an electric moment, where emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism's changing landscape. She and fellow designer Hawk Jones are all over Vogue and the disco scene. Yet she can't escape the legacy of being the daughter of Mizza Bricard, infamous "muse" for Christian Dior. Astrid would give anything to take her place among the great houses of couture - on her own terms. I won't inspire it when I can create it. But then Astrid disappeared ... Now Astrid's daughter, Blythe, holds what remains of her mother and grandmother's legacies. Of all the Bricard women, she can gather the torn, shredded, and painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of grief, heartbreak, and abandonment to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion. The only piece that's missing is the one question that no one's been able to answer: What really happened to Astrid?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Clothing trade; Fashion designers; Fashion; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Women;
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Odessa / by Hill, Jonathan,author,artist.; Hill, Jonathan,illustrator.;
"Eight years ago an earthquake-the Big One-hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes and Harry. But when a mysterious package arrives for her eighteenth birthday, her life is shaken up yet again. For the first time, Ginny wants something more than to survive. And it might be a selfish desire, but she's determined to find out what happened to her mother-even if it means leaving her family behind."--Ages 13-16.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Vietnamese Americans; Teenage girls; Mothers and daughters; Missing persons; Regression (Civilization);
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Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic / by Westhoff, Ben,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of an illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. 'A whole new generation of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,' writes Ben Westhoff. 'These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs'"--
Subjects: Designer drugs.; Fentanyl.; Opioid abuse; Drug addiction; Drug traffic;
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Ridgerunner / by Adamson, Gil,author.;
"November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton, born in the woods to two outlaws, now finds himself semi-orphaned and left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun of the Anglican Order of Saint Mara. In the town of Banff, Alberta, where tourists, new immigrants, and POWs dwell among the locals, she lays claim to the boy and keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old home. The boy longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the Sawback Range. His father is coming for him. The nun won't let him go. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her award-winning debut The Outlander is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Thieves; Fathers and sons; Nuns;
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