The Sunflower Forest

The Sunflower Forest
Author: Torey Hayden
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780007380275

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Bestselling author Torey Hayden’s novel poignantly tells of a daughter’s attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother’s haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness.

The Sunflower Forest

The Sunflower Forest
Author: William R. Jordan
Publsiher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780520272705

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Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising approaches to conservation. In this book, William R. Jordan III, who coined the term "restoration ecology," and who is widely respected as an intellectual leader in the field, outlines a vision for a restoration-based environmentalism that has emerged from his work over twenty-five years. Drawing on a provocative range of thinkers, from anthropologists Victor Turner, Roy Rappaport, and Mary Douglas to literary critics Frederick Turner, Leo Marx, and R.W.B. Lewis, Jordan explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature. Exploring restoration not only as a technology but also as an experience and a performing art, Jordan claims that it is the indispensable key to conservation. At the same time, he argues, restoration is valuable because it provides a context for confronting the most troubling aspects of our relationship with nature. For this reason, it offers a way past the essentially sentimental idea of nature that environmental thinkers have taken for granted since the time of Emerson and Muir.

The Sunflower Forest

The Sunflower Forest
Author: Torey L. Hayden
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2008
Genre: Family
ISBN: IND:30000110600156

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"Seventeen-year-old Lesley is a typical teenage girl: her worries revolve around boys, choosing the right college and bickering with her younger sister Megan. She adores her beautiful, captivating mother Mara, who tells evocative stories of her childhood in Hungary and Germany before the war. However, Mara has one memory of the past that she can never share..." "As Lesley begins to uncover the horror of her mother's secret, their idyllic family life shatters around them, and Lesley realizes that her mother is not the person she thought she knew."--BOOK JACKET.

Sunflower

Sunflower
Author: Gyula Krudy
Publsiher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781590174081

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Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a force of nature. The plot twists and turns; elemental myth mingles with sheer farce: Krúdy brilliantly illuminates the shifting contours and acid colors of the landscape of desire. John Bátki’s outstanding translation of Sunflower is the perfect introduction to the world of Gyula Krúdy, a genius as singular as Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz, or Joseph Roth.

The Sunflower

The Sunflower
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780743287029

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After her fiancé calls off their marriage a week before the wedding. heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Sunflower Houses

Sunflower Houses
Author: Sharon Lovejoy
Publsiher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761164562

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A magical book of adventures and appreciations written and illustrated by the author of Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots this award-winning title was published by a small press in Colorado in 1991. The reviews say it all: A fetching primer on gardening for children. . . . Irresistible (The Smithsonian). What child, or indeed adult, would not be delighted? Lovejoy's recollections are wonderful, as are the illustrations (Victoria). Celebrating the lore of the garden and the joy of interacting with nature, Sunflower Houses is a unique garden lover's miscellany, a collection of memories, poems, activities, garden plans, crafts, botanical riddles, stories, games, and planting projects. There are inspirations for a Floral Clock Garden, A Child's Own Rainbow, Faerie Tea Parties, and, of course, the Sunflower House. Plus, from garden lovers, stories of favorite flowers. Throughout are the artist's warm and appealing watercolors of a life in gardening remembered.

The Amazon

The Amazon
Author: Molly Aloian
Publsiher: Rivers Around the World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0778774422

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Introduces the Amazon River, describing its sources; its course through nine South American countries; the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples that live in its river basin; and the threats represented by pollution and deforestation.

One Child

One Child
Author: Torey Hayden
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2006-04
Genre: Abused children
ISBN: 9780007240630

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Sheila was wild, unreachable, abused--and a genius. She ws a child lost until a brilliant young teacher reached out.