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The dating scene can be a killer...

Determined to help her roommate Nikki out of her singles slump, Abby Knight encourages her to give speed dating a try. Of course, Nikki wants the guy at the very bottom of Abby’s list, Jonas Treat—a.k.a. “Treat the Cheat”—and figures just one date with him couldn’t hurt. But then Jonas is found dead—and evidence points to Nikki as his killer.

To clear Nikki’s name, Abby enlists the help of her hunky ex-Army Ranger boyfriend, Marco. But Marco’s rambunctious extended family turns Abby’s hectic life into a disaster zone. With her patience seriously wilting, and a killer on the loose, Abby is determined to dig herself out of this mess—before someone buries her instead....
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Nothing ever goes right for Eloise. The day she wears her new suede boots, it rains. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. And she's had her share of misfortune in the way of love. So, after deciding that romantic heroes must be a thing of the past, Eloise is ready for a fresh start.

Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on two spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation-the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise has more and more questions. Like, how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero of her own?.
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Young Kate Millet is the model for the painting John Singer Sargent is working on in her parents' garden. Everyone says she is posing well, even though she finds it very hard to stand still. Then, one of her father's friends arrives with his two daughters They're older, taller and have lighter hair than Kate. Sargent decides to use them as models instead. Kate is devastated. Based on numerous letters and recollections from the period, Hugh Brewster's story describes Kate's disappointment, the many difficulties experienced by the painter through the long artistic process, Kate's reconciliation with him and how she is immortalized on canvas after all. Illustrated with over 35 of Sargent's paintings and sketches, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose recreates the 1880s milieu of the famed American painter during an extended trip to England, and the thoughts and days of a girl who was there alongside him..
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Wall Calendars. Flower & Garden.
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Lauren Willig continues the exciting series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally stole her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring..
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PREFACE THIS little volume is a companion to Sweet Violets and Pansies, which formed the first of the smaller gardening books in the Country Life Library It has been written at the request of many readers of Country Life and The Garden, and it is to be hoped that the ripe experience of the con- tributors to its pages, and the simple directions for the growing of the Carnation, Picotee, and the beauti- ful wild Pinks, will have their value. The brave masses of old Clove Carnations in the gardens of our forbears, the sweet drifts of white Pinks, and the warm fragrance scenting the summer air, are pleasant reminiscences. With a greater choice of varieties, the Carnation has developed in interest and popularity, and a garden is not a garden that is without the silvery tufts of growth which have a quiet beauty even in winter days, when we are wise enough to group them with grey-leaved shrubs, such as Rosemary and Lavender. Although Pinks and Carnations are welcome in so many ways of gardening, perhaps their greatest use, other than in wall and rockwork, is as edgings and underplantings to Roses, or something of taller stature than their own. By edgings is not meant the white straight or stiff borderings only, though Pink and its forms are among the very best plants for this use, but informal fillings of the outer portions of beds and borders. Used like this with Roses, they are admirable, each plant enhancing the beauty of the other. They are perhaps least suited for filling up whole beds, unless the beds are quite small, and especially narrow, in form. The deepening love for hardy flowers should have a good effect on floral exhibitions, which have not always directed the would-be gardener into wholesome channels. The showing of Carnation flowers in little paper collars is grotesque and without reason. Surely it is more instructive to show a flower in its natural beauty, and not attempt to cheat the visitor into the belief that the flower there arranged in a paper collar will reveal the same sym- metry of form and colouring in the open garden. A Carnation that is fit only for a show box, and is useless in the garden, should have no claim upon our consideration. Raisers must strive to obtain flowers that keep their petals within bounds. A Carnation that splits has little garden value, and whether it splits or not, if it is without fragrance, we would have none of it. The crimson Clove has the charm of a distinctive and deliciously warm fragrance, but there are varieties as scentless as a Baroness Rothschild Rose. This should not be tolerated. The first act generally of a buyer of Carnations is to smell them, and it is in the interests of the trade as well as the gardener to intensify rather than obliterate one of the great charms of the flower. I thank most heartily the contributors to this little book and if the reader wishes to consult other writers, the following works may be recommended Le Jardinage des Oeillets. A. Paris, 1647. Nouveau Traite des Oeillets. A. Paris, 1676. A Practical Treatise on the Carnation. By Thomas Hogg, Florist, Paddington Green, 1839. The American Carnation How to Grow it. By Chas. Willis Ward. A. T. De la Mare Printing and Publishing Company, New York. Reas Flora. By John Rea, London. Printed for George Marviott, Fleet Street, 1676. Dodwell on the Carnation. Derby, W. Bacon, Beckett Hill Works. Carnation Manual. Published by the Carnation Society. Messrs. Cassell Co. The Book of the Carnation. By R. P. Brotherston....
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