It’s 1901—a brave new century—and seventeen-year-old Grace Boisvert thinks it’s high time to forget that she’s a dryad; being able to talk to trees just doesn’t seem very useful in the automobile age. A little hair dye to touch up her green roots, and she’s off to join her best friend Alice Roosevelt for a visit to glamorous Newport, RI, with her family’s warnings not to fall for any human boys ringing in her ears. As it happens, the only interesting boy in Newport, Kit Rookwood, clearly prefers Alice to her. But that changes when he and his family unexpectedly follow them to a secluded Adirondack camp to join Alice’s family. Grace finds herself falling in love—and not just with the breathtaking forests. But sometimes stern family warnings really should be heeded and ancient magical heritages not forgotten, especially when it turns out that not everything—and everyone—are quite what they seem...
Our story begins in the cold North on a blustery November day in 1923.
Sweeping from Jazz Age New York to Nazi Germany to a sun-baked Israeli kibbutz, Evergreen has become a modern American classic—an epic novel that spans three generations of an unforgettable family—and exposes the heart of an ...
Set before a backdrop of vanishing forest, this is a luminous novel of love, regret, and hope. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Franklin Elliott provides readers with a practical guide to landscaping with popular deciduous and evergreen plants.
This heartwarming children's book is fun to read all year, but is especially meaningful during the winter season. EVERGREENs STORY is Ada N. Letelier's first children's book.
The entertaining stories and action steps weaved throughout these pages reveal how anyone can: • Cultivate the 3Cs of evergreen companies: character, community, and content• Build loyalty programs that turn satisfied customers into ...
... columnist Frank Kent; the financier and future publisher of the Washington Post Eugene Meyer; New York congressman and former assistant secretary of war J. Mayhew Wainwright; and the US senator from Maryland William Cabell Bruce.
In Evergreen Leaves, the characters are worldly-wise and affluent.
Explains how to choose and care for shrubs, and other information on over 150 genera of evergreens.
The Lewis and Clark expedition camped in the tri-cities area in October of 1805. The expedition made detailed descriptions of plant and animal life and documented the Columbia River and its tributaries. This area was an important ...