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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"One bright day in December 2001, Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate."--Dust jacket.
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Description
The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic closed circle plot, in which the assorted guests at a country house party become suspects when a crime is committed....
3) The help
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a white woman graduates from college in the 1960s, she returns to her home in Jackson, Mississippi and begins her writing career by interviewing the African-American servants in her neighborhood and sharing their stories with the public.
4) Firefighters
Author
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Describes various kinds of firefighting equipment, including fire trucks, fire boats, aerial platforms, and other emergency equipment.
Series
Rosebud graphic classics volume Issue no. 2, 2002
Publisher
The Rosebud Store, Eureka Productions
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
Contains adaptations of eight stories and poems by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, presented in black-and-white cartoon form.
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Covers 825 species, including all the native and naturalized trees of the United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains. Descriptions present details of size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering and fruiting times, habitat, and range maps for native species, as well as specially commissioned artwork, up-to-date taxonomy and names, information on the most recently naturalized species, keys to leaves and twigs, and...
Author
Series
General technical report NRS volume 101
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Forest restoration would be greatly helped by understanding just what forests looked like a century or more ago. One source of information on early forests is found in old deeds or surveys, where boundary corners were described by noting nearby trees known as witness trees. This paper describes the creation and analysis of a database of witness trees from original metes and bounds surveys of what became the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia....
Author
Series
Research map NRS volume 5
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English