The book highlights remarkable yet overlooked Irish figures who significantly influenced Boston's history, such as Patrick Gilmore, the first renowned American bandleader, and Louis Sullivan, the architect behind the skyscraper. It also features intriguing personalities like Patsy Donovan, who discovered Babe Ruth, and Ann Goody Glover, whose story sparked the Salem Witch Trials. Local author Peter Stevens sheds light on these forgotten individuals, revealing their vital contributions to the city's cultural and historical landscape.
As the concluding chapter of the Haven trilogy, this novel delves into the intense struggles and growth of its characters as they face their ultimate challenges. Themes of resilience, redemption, and the quest for belonging are woven throughout the narrative. The story culminates in a gripping resolution, tying together the intricate plotlines established in the previous books while introducing new twists that keep readers engaged until the very end.
How to cultivate, harvest, and utilize North America's largest native fruit. It is hard to eat more than one pawpaw at a go. The creamy rich pulp with tropical flavors ranging from mango and pineapple to banana combine like a satisfying dessert. The pawpaw, a close relative of the tropical custard apple, grows throughout much of North America yet culturally and horticulturally we know very little about it. This mini manual by edible landscape author Michael Judd jumps right into growing, caring for, harvesting, and using pawpaws - from seed to table. Judd demystifies fruit growing in direct, easy to follow steps that quickly brings confidence to the newbie grower while expanding the horizons of curious gardeners. Historically most people have only experienced foraged pawpaw fruit, which can be a hit or miss game for a good experience. That is quickly changing as selected and bred cultivars are being grown and shared. Judd's pawpaw manual gets you started right away with the best selections and approaches
In this book, Walter Judd and Grant Judd give detailed species accounts of
every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the
plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a
description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-
drawn illustration in the style of a woodcut print.
Thirty Days Has September helps with learning all of those confusing rules of
language and mathematics, and those tricky facts from science, history and
geography.
TRUE WAR & COMBAT STORIES. "Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as Harmful Lil' Armful who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground. After fleeing the wreck, Meyerowitz knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts not only despised the Nazis but had a tight connection to the French resistance group Morhange and its founder, Marcel Taillandier. Meyerowitz and Taillandier formed an improbable bond as the resistance leader arranged for Meyerowitz's transfers among safe houses in southern France, shielding him from the Gestapo.
Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a how-to manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easy-to-follow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too. With the help of more than 200 beautiful color photos and drawings, permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes the reader on a step-by-step process to transform a sea of grass into a flourishing edible landscape that pleases the eye as well as the taste buds. With personality and humor, he translates the complexities of permaculture design into simple self-build projects, providing full details on the evolving design process, material identification, and costs. Chapters cover: Herb Spirals Food Forests Raised-Bed Gardens Earthen Ovens Uncommon Fruits Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation, and more . . . The book's colorful pages are filled with practical designs that Judd has created and built over years of workshops, homesteading, and running an edible landscaping business. Though geared toward suburban gardeners starting from scratch, the book's designs can be easily grafted to the micro-habits of the urban landscape, scaled up to the acreage of homesteads, or adapted to already flourishing landscapes. Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a tool to spark and inform the imagination of anyone with a desire to turn their landscape into a luscious and productive edible Eden.
It is 2050. With global pollution and exploitation of the planet at intolerable levels, a summit of world leaders had forged the final solution to protect Earth no human reproduction for 50 years. Halfway through humanity's challenge to deny birth, one man, Jacob Harrower, discovers the awful truth about EarthWatch and rebels against them. He and a small group of courageous men and women begin their own society, deep in the southern forests of Australia. But will they succeed against natural disasters, betrayal, and the might of EarthWatch?
