White's Rules
One heroic schoolteacher has saved hundreds of lives with unconditional love and zero tolerance for rule-breakers. His students are the worst of the worst-drug addicts, gang members, and violent criminal offenders. They have flunked out or been ... [... more]
Random House |
Daffodil Collectibles, Down Under Catalogues, and Warm Fires
January is not prime daffodil time for me in my Zone 5-6 USDA climate zone. Well, I do have some paper whites in bloom. Some friends who have cold greenhouses have told me about the abundance of winter-flowering bulbocodium and cantabricus ... [... more]
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Geoffrey O'Gara
A journalist and the author of A Long Road Home: Journeys through America's Present in Search of America's Past, Geoffrey O'Gara lives in Lander, Wyoming. Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West For nearly a century, the ... [... more]
Random House |
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
From Amazon.com: David K. Shipler, a long-time reporter for the New York Times in the U.S. and overseas, calls A Country of Strangers "a journey along the color line," an attempt to trace "the landscape where blacks and whites find mutual [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Whites Only Party
Artist: Dears Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5033197436739 Format: Import Format: Single Original Release Date: 2006-10-16 Release Date: 2006-10-23 Tracks: Whites Only Party Above a Lake of Fire Summer of Protest [... more]
CDN$4.99
Amazon CA |
Mr. White's Confession
From Amazon.com: In Robert Clark's second novel, Mr. White's Confession, two men grope through real and metaphysical mysteries in post-depression Minnesota. A pair of girls, taxi dancers at a local dance hall, have been murdered. It seems obvious to [... more]
CDN$20.03
Amazon CA |
Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and ...
Well-Trod Territory: Contested Territory purports to be an examination of the interactions between whites, blacks and Native Americans in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories prior to statehood. Instead, it offers an old-fashioned, well-worn tale of white [... more]
CDN$110.50
Amazon CA |
What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a ...
From Amazon.com: Seventeen years ago, journalist Geoffrey O'Gara left Washington, D.C., for northwest-central Wyoming to take a job covering environmental and resource issues concerning the Rocky Mountain region. He settled on the outskirts of the Wind [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Hot Colours in the Country Garden
Do the hot colours - red, yellow and orange - have a place in the country garden? What is your mental picture of the colours of a typical English country garden. Is it soft pastel colours - sugar pinks, baby blues and Sissinghurst whites - or hot ... [... more]
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What's New in Paper White Narcissus
These ain't your grandma's paper whites anymore. Thank goodness! Now there are varieties for those of us who love to look at them, but couldn't stand the smell. My attention has been turned back to bulbs this week. I thought I had put that behind ... [... more]
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A Picture is worth a Thousand Words
The saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" is only part true. I cannot give you the pleasure of smelling the perfumes which so many of the Rhododendrons (especially the whites) gladden my senses by my amateurish snaps. Early November, the [... more]
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Probably the most rewarding of all flowering shrubs
Azaleas, for months every year, paint exquisite pictures in glowing purples, the gentlest of reds, pinks, whites, and two-colours. They can also be either single, double or anemone centred in their form. They are a favourite of my wife and that ... [... more]
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