Books with title The Troll Garden

In the Garden is an enchanting children's book about the delights of planting and sowing. Told from the perspective of a young boy, and illustrated in lush colors reminiscent of a blossoming garden, it beautifully conveys the magic, mystery, and wonder of a growing season. Witness the exciting and ever-changing world of a backyard garden through the eyes of a young child, as he plants a simple patch of dirt with a variety of vegetable seeds, pretty flowers, and a few of his favorite toys. Join in the fun as the little boy stomps through puddles, meets slimy slugs and beautiful butterflies, enjoys tasty treats fresh from the garden, and best of all gets lots of hugs and kisses. Before long, everything in the garden has grown bigger-even the little gardener! Inspired by her own child's gardening adventures, author and illustrator Peggy Collins charms readers with cheery, colorful artwork and endearing text that perfectly captures a child's unique view of the growing world around him.

Madeleine Winger is a self-proclaimed “lust-o-holic.” This college coed’s year-long crush is a tall, tan and brawny musician who possesses her keenness for dark-haired, green-eyed men.Every time she sees him at church, or when he shops at the music store where she works, Maddy’s mind and mouth go on the fritz, and she is sure she will need a defibrillator to restart her heart. But Maddy knows she must learn a better way to have a relationship with a guy than the old gotta-jump-into-bed-with-him-so-he’ll-like-me, kind of way. Her past has taught her that a dating approach like that never lasts. She senses there is something special about Peter, and she really doesn’t want to ruin a chance at a genuine relationship with him.Peter is the guitar player in a local up-and-coming garage band, who has made a fresh recommitment to stay true to his faith. He hasn’t dated anyone in over a year, which is unheard of in the musician world.Maddy and Peter’s tale is one of of pure sweetness and beauty, as two people learn to love each other under the hand of the Almighty. But can Peter and Maddy wrestle with their desires, keep their thoughts in check, as well as their hands off of each other?Their tale of relationship trials and triumphs prompts many laugh-out-loud moments, and several tear-jerkers too, so keep a tissue or two handy.THE GARDEN KEY, the first novel in THE GARDEN KEY TALES, is a Young Adult/New Adult genre tale of lust, redemption and really good cheeseburgers, which inspires and illustrates the urgent need for faith in our lives, especially when it comes to relationships.MIND OVER MADELEINE is Book 2 in the series, and FISH OUT OF WATER is Book 3.

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905. This collection contains the following seven stories: "Flavia and Her Artists" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert" "The Garden Lodge" "The Marriage of Phaedra" "A Wagner Matinee" "Paul's Case" Four of these stories--"The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Death in the Desert," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case"—were revised and included in Cather's next collection of short fiction Youth and the Bright Medusa, published in 1920.......... Willa Sibert Cather ( December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Early life and education: Cather was born Wilella Sibert Cather in 1873 on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. Her father was Charles Fectigue Cather (d. 1928), whose family had lived on land in the valley for six generations. Cather's family originated in Wales, the family name deriving from Cadair Idris, a mountain in Gwynedd.Her mother was Mary Virginia Boak (died 1931), a former school teacher. Within a year of Cather's birth, the family moved to Willow Shade, a Greek Revival-style home on 130 acres given to them by her paternal grandparents. At the urging of Charles Cathers' parents, the family moved to Nebraska in 1883 when Willa was nine years old. The rich, flat farmland appealed to Charles' father, and the family wished to escape the tuberculosis outbreaks that were rampant in Virginia. Willa's father tried his hand at farming for eighteen months; then he moved the family into the town of Red Cloud, where he opened a real estate and insurance business, and the children attended school for the first time. Some of the earliest work produced by Cather was first published in the Red Cloud Chief, the city's local paper. Cather's time in the western state, still on the frontier, was a deeply formative experience for her. She was intensely moved by the dramatic environment and weather, the vastness of the Nebraska prairie, and the various cultures of the European-American, immigrant and Native American families in the area. Like Jim Burden in My Antonia, the young Willa Cather saw the Nebraska frontier as a "place where there was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the materials out of which countries were made...Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out". Mary Cather had six more children after Willa: Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie. Cather was closer to her brothers than to her sisters whom, according to biographer Hermione Lee, she "seems not to have liked very much." Cather read widely, having made friends with a Jewish couple, the Weiners, who offered her free access to their extensive library.She made house calls with the local physician, Dr. Robert Damerell, and decided to become a doctor. After Cather's essay on Thomas Carlyle was published in the Nebraska State Journal during her freshman year at the University of Nebraska, she became a regular contributor to the Journal. In addition to her work with the local paper, Cather also served as the managing editor of The Hesperian, the University of Nebraska's student newspaper, and associated at the Lincoln Courier....................

The sweet and simple artwork of Lisa Gardiner beautifully illustrates the word concepts in this First Words Series. Bright, high quality illustrations fill the 10 spreads of these padded board books. Product Features: * Attention getting illustrations * Interactive approach promotes joy of reading * Supports hand / eye coordination * Padded board construction for long life and tactile interest * Child safety tested

This collection of Willa Cather stories—her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career—is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes—all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art.

A garden is a magical place of color, fragrance and sound. Girls retreat there for many purposes from fun times in the early years to quiet reflection as they metamorph into adults. Encounter animals, flowers and friendships as you explore the scenery In the Garden. Family friendly activities extend the engagement and encourage children to learn more about nature.

Reagan James' life has irrevocably changed. Bereft over the loss of her Gran, she struggles to piece together the objects that she was left behind. A letter, a key, and a ring older than time itself. Through her journey she meets Gaige. Half angel, half human-and a little too perfect for his own good- he immerses her in his world. With his help, they struggle to figure out who and what she truly is. Together, they must face the demon that has separated them since the dawn of time and overcome the darkness that lingers inside her before they can ever be together.