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The Orchid Shroud

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673450
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Shroud written by Michelle Wan and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange beast is killing both livestock and humans in the Dordogne . . . Business is booming for orchidologist Julian and interior designer Mara, but things take a horrifying turn when, in the wall of the sixteenth-century manor house she has been commissioned to restore, Mara’s workmen find a mummified baby. Forensic analysis reveals that the baby had been smothered more than a hundred years before. Julian discovers that the infant’s shawl is embroidered with an exact likeness of a rare orchid he has been researching. Meanwhile Mara falls under suspicion in another more recent murder, linked not only to the mummified child but, seemingly, to the spectre of a werewolf . . . As sinister revelations abound, so too do the legends and superstitions of the Dordogne. The breathtaking world of wild orchids and delectable Dordognais cookery provide atmosphere in equal part to the unraveling mystery. A superb and accomplished follow-up to Deadly Slipper.

Orchid Shroud

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781299265974
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Orchid Shroud written by Michelle Wan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Twist of Orchids

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429936401
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Twist of Orchids written by Michelle Wan and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cross-pollinates Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief with Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence."—The Washington Post Book World on Deadly Slipper Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . . In this electrifying third installment of the highly acclaimed Death in the Dordogne series, expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friends—first Amelie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, then a local Turkish couple’s son disappears—each has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid lover’s mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the other—permanently.

Kill for an Orchid

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307374351
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Kill for an Orchid written by Michelle Wan and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book in the "Death in Dordogne" series, Kill for an Orchid spans two hemispheres and three centuries, taking readers on a suspenseful journey of greed, obsession and murder. Life is finally coming together for Mara and Julian in their idyllic corner of the French countryside. They are even contemplating marriage! However, their happy prospects hit a nasty bump when Véronique, Julian's not-so-ex-wife, turns up unexpectedly, threatening blackmail and trouble. Trouble indeed: Veronique is brutally murdered, and the local gendarmes' top suspect is Julian himself. However, a mysterious list of names found among Véronique's effects leads Mara to ask if these individuals are linked to the crime. But how? And why? As Mara seeks answers to these questions, Julian has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to journey to China to solve the riddle of his mystery orchid. Is it the legendary Yong Chun Hua — the flower of eternal youth? To his peril, he soon learns that he is not alone in his quest. As he treks through the mountains of Sichuan piecing together the orchid's dark secret, he soon finds himself in a race for survival against a determined and deadly adversary. In France Mara, comes face to face with the horrendous truth behind Véronique's death. A world apart, these two must somehow help each other to thwart a cunning and ruthless killer.

The Orchid Shroud

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1400079535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Shroud written by Michelle Wan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interior decorator Mara Dunn and orchidologist Julian Wood team up again to solve two murders in Michelle Wan’s charming new botanical mystery.Mara is renovating the manor house of the wealthy Christophe de Bonfond when she discovers the body of a murdered infant. The body, concealed for more than a century, brings to light unexpected and critical information on an elusive Lady's Slipper orchid that Julian avidly seeks. Christophe hires genealogist Jean-Claude Fournier to exonerate his ancestors, only to have the expert unleash even more terrifying suspicions. When violent death strikes in the present day, Mara and Julian begin an investigation of their own that leads them to uncover a trail of murder spanning many decades.

Going Places

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

When I Kill You

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554699940
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book When I Kill You written by Michelle Wan and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit. And then Marcia Beekland enters her life. Marcia has video evidence that appears to implicate Gina in Chico's death. Faced with the likelihood of a jail sentence and the certain loss of the insurance settlement, Gina succumbs to Marcia's blackmail demands. And what Marcia wants is that Gina kill her husband Stanley. What follows is a comic mystery caper that will keep readers both laughing and eagerly reading to discover what is really behind Marcia's increasingly crazed demands.

I.O.U. Dead

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459809092
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book I.O.U. Dead written by Michelle Wan and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keno is twenty-three, a high-school dropout working as a rent collector for a slum landlord. Apart from hitting on the office secretary, Cass, his life is bleak. His job takes him into sad, mean places where kids wail, drunks fight and women get beaten up. He works his territory with Jaco, who’s tougher and shiftier than any of the folks they’re sent to shake rent out of. One night Keno and Jaco finally catch up to one of their targets. But she’ll never pay. She’s dead. Battered almost beyond recognition. But they recognize her killer, and Jaco comes up with a scheme to blackmail him. Now Keno has to decide who he is—bill collector or blackmailer. Or could he even be the good guy? Will he run or will he stay? In the end, will trusting himself help him outmaneuver a psychopathic killer?

Deadly Slipper

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Seal Books
ISBN 13 : 0385673442
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Slipper written by Michelle Wan and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a new mystery series that has it all — a tragic puzzle, fabulous French food, and a peek into the fascinating world of wild orchids. In 1984, a young Canadian woman vanished while on a hiking holiday in the Dordogne region of France. Was Bedie Dunn the victim of an accident? Or could she have been murdered? Haunted for years by the disappearance of her twin sister, Mara Dunn has moved to France to try to answer these questions. Mara’s amateur investigations finally begin to show progress when she discovers a camera she is convinced belonged to Bedie in a second-hand store. In it is an old roll of film, whose exposures turn out to be mostly of wild terrestial orchids. Mara turns to Julian Wood, an expatriate English orchidologist, for help with the impossible: can they use two-decade-old photos of flowers to trace Bedie’s last route, and find the end of her journey? Julian is reluctant to get drawn into this seemingly hopeless quest, but the last exposure on the film is irresistible to him — an unknown species of Lady’s Slipper Orchid. If discovered, it might be the key to botanical fame — or it could be the marker to a shallow grave.

American Orchid Society Bulletin

Author : American Orchid Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Orchid Society Bulletin written by American Orchid Society and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Twist of Orchids

Author : Michelle Wan
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673434
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book A Twist of Orchids written by Michelle Wan and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the acclaimed “Death in the Dordogne” series. Winter in the Dordogne: delicious food, ruggedly beautiful scenery, unscrupulous orchid hunters, illegal drugs, a poetic house-breaker, and three mysterious deaths and counting . . . Expat Montrealer Mara Dunn and orchid-loving Brit Julian Wood are living together in an uneasy, on-and-off way. When bad things start to happen to their friends–first Amélie Gaillard falls mysteriously to her death, leaving behind a husband with Parkinson’s who is visited by a murderous apparition, then a local Turkish couple’s son disappears and is soon found dead of an overdose–each has a very different way of helping out. So different that each begins to wonder if they are really meant to be together. But when Julian, with his unerring understanding of the orchid-lover’s mind, thinks he has found the link between the local spike in drug traffic and murder, one of them might lose the other–permanently.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voodoo Tales: Murder and Much More

Author : CD Moulton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329904540
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo Tales: Murder and Much More written by CD Moulton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Orchid

Author : Jim Endersby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022642703X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Orchid written by Jim Endersby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning history of the orchid: “an engaging and enlightening account of one of the Earth's most mythologized botanical wonders” (Richard Conniff, author of House of Lost Worlds). At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have had varying forms of significance in countless cultures over time. Following the orchid’s journey from Ancient Greek medicine to twentieth century detective novels, science historian Jim Endersby explores the flower’s four recurring themes: science, empire, sex, and death. Orchids were a symbol of the exotic riches sought by 19th century Europeans in their plans for colonization. They became subjects of scientific scrutiny for Charles Darwin, who investigated their methods of cross-pollination. As Endersby shows, orchids—perhaps because of their extraordinarily diverse colors, shapes, and sizes—have also bloomed repeatedly in films, novels, plays, and poems, from Shakespeare to science fiction. Featuring many gorgeous illustrations from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Orchid: A Cultural History was awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize by the History of Science Society. It is an enchanting tale not only for gardeners and plant collectors, but anyone curious about the flower’s obsessive hold on the imagination in history, cinema, literature, and more.

The Orchid Hunter

Author : Leif Bersweden
Publisher : Short Books
ISBN 13 : 1780723350
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter written by Leif Bersweden and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey.This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids – one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on our doorstep.Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, The Orchid Hunter is a charming account of a precocious adolescent’s obsession with the natural world.Leif’s enthusiasm for his quest is infectious, as is the quiet conviction with which he keeps at it, showing how plant hunting can be the ultimate mindful activity.

The Magic/Voodoo Collection Collector's edition

Author : CD Moulton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132906609X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Magic/Voodoo Collection Collector's edition written by CD Moulton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Orchid-grower's Manual

Author : Benjamin Samuel Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid-grower's Manual written by Benjamin Samuel Williams and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: