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Deep Freeze: Virgil Flowers, Book 10

Class reunions: a time for memories – good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly – in the thrilling new novel in the number one New York Times best-selling series.

Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt – and, as it turned out, homicidal – local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of 20 years ago that has a midwinter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into 20 years’ worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It’s true what they say: High school is murder.

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The Sun and Her Flowers

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry.  A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
 
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept 
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year 
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom
 

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She Believed She Could, So She Did: Inspirational Quote/Beautiful Spring Garden Flowers Design Notebook/Journal with 110 Lined Pages (8.5 x 11)

8.5 x 11 MOTIVATIONAL DESIGN NOTEBOOK/JOURNAL 110 LINED PAGES This is a large journal/notebook featuring the inspirational quote, “She Believed She Could, So She Did.” Use this personal journal to write down your positive thoughts and ideas. Use it as a notebook or even a diary. There are 110 lined pages waiting to be filled with inspiration!

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Loose Leaf: Plants – Flowers – Projects – Inspiration

Showstopping floristry and plant installations, with projects to recreate at home

Exploding off the page with astonishing beauty and style, here are some of the world’s best in contemporary floral sculpture and installation to inspire your own creations at home. Alongside the superb photography of Wona Bae’s work, readers are offered 12 practical projects to try themselves.

Beginning with basic information on the types of flowers, sticks, and foliage that work together in a design, the book then takes readers through a themed selection of contemporary flower and foliage schemes to inspire their creativity when it comes to tackling their own installations. The DIY projects range from seasonal wreaths and hanging plants, to terrariums and earth-inspired headpieces.

Loose Leaf’s philosophy is that plants and flowers are essential for our health and well-being, both mental and physical, and this book shows the many ways we can bring the beauty of nature into our homes in truly stylish and inventive ways.

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Escape Clause: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Book 9

Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two.

The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist).

The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large and very rare Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they’ve been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others – as Virgil is about to find out.

Then there’s the home front. Virgil’s relationship with his girlfriend, Frankie, has been getting kind of serious, but when Frankie’s sister, Sparkle, moves in for the summer, the situation gets a lot more complicated. For one thing, her research into migrant workers is about to bring her up against some very violent people who emphatically do not want to be researched. For another…she thinks Virgil’s kind of cute.

“You mess around with Sparkle,” Frankie told Virgil, “you could get yourself stabbed.”

“She carries a knife?”

“No, but I do.”

Forget a storm – this one’s a tornado.

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Sherryl Woods – Chesapeake Shores: Books 1-3: The Inn at Eagle Point, Flowers on Main, Harbor Lights (Chesapeake Shores Series)

The Inn at Eagle Point
It’s been years since Abby O’Brien Winters set foot in Chesapeake Shores. The Maryland town her father built has too many sad memories and Abby too few spare moments, thanks to her demanding Wall Street career, the crumbling of her marriage, and energetic twin daughters. Then one panicked phone call from her youngest sister brings her racing back home to protect Jess’s dream of renovating the charming Inn at Eagle Point. But saving the inn from foreclosure means dealing not only with her own fractured family, but also with Trace Riley, the man Abby left ten years ago. Trace can be a roadblock to her plans…or proof that second chances happen in the most unexpected ways.

Flowers on Main
When her last two plays are dismal failures and her relationship with her temperamental mentor falls apart, writer Bree O’Brien abandons Chicago and the regional theater where she hoped to make a name for herself to return home. Opening Flowers on Main promises to bring her a new challenge and a new kind of fulfillment. But not all is peaceful and serene in Chesapeake Shores, with her estranged mother on the scene and her ex-lover on the warpath. Jake Collins has plenty of reasons to want Bree out of his life, but none of those are a match for the one reason he wants her to stay: he’s still in love with her. Jake might be able to get past that old hurt if he knew Bree was home to stay, but is she? The only way to know for sure is to take a dangerous leap of faith.

Harbor Lights
Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former army medic Kevin O’Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on, and a future that’s nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn’t anticipated, in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle. Shanna immediately recognizes Kevin as a wounded soul―she’s had way too much experience with the type. Still, this charming O’Brien man and his son are almost impossible to resist. Then, just when the barriers are toppling, someone from Shanna’s past appears. Confronted with a threat to their hard-won serenity, Kevin and Shanna face their toughest challenge―learning to trust again.

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Flowers in December: 12 Poetic Affirmations to help you Grow through your toughest times

Are you going through obstacles are GROWING through them?
When we come across hard times, our usual response is ask for enough strength to get through it all. But to only get through your struggles leaves room for possibly repeating those same experiences. When you grow through a situation, you’re putting your faith into action. Your test becomes a testimony by transforming that painful experience into wisdom. Flowers in December is your guide to help you stay inspired and to transform yourself in the midst of your coldest and darkest times.

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Deadline (A Virgil Flowers Novel)

The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series.
 
In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor.

Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier—a team of dognappers supplying medical labs—when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found—and the victim is a local reporter. . . .