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1. Birnam Wood
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Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Birnam Wood is on the move. A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the...
Author:
Publisher:
John G. Paterson
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Eleven short stories set in Toronto, Niagara Falls, Boston, Birnam Wood, Shanghai, Osaka, Fukuoka, West City, and various off-planet locations.Contents: "Greenfield Village", "The Vice Principal", "The Delay", "West City Rocks", "The Chinese Claimant", "Public Skating", "The March Singularity", "The Eye of the Fomorian", "Measles Parrot and Ev@rgreen", "Robert Phippes", and "Popper". Born in St. Catharines, Ontario. Three short story collections,...
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
Description:
Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey Tennant must stage the cursed play Macbeth to fulfill the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver Welles. The actor cast in the lead engages in a titanic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in confrontationally from the grave. The festival faces a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen Fanshaw endures...
8. A Tree a Day
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Language:
English
Description:
Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of nature with a different tree for every day of the year. Spend every day of the year with one of the world's most fascinating trees. In A Tree a Day seasoned nature writer and journalist Amy-Jane Beer shares 365 majestic and memorable trees from around the world. From the strength of Alder trees to the biology behind the autumn colors of New England, from folkloric medicines in tree sap to Shakespeare's Birnam...