Flower Power

Give yourself flowers with these books about blooms and blossoms of all kinds. Plant a seed, read!


Updated May 3, 2026
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Chamomile mourning
Childs, Laura.
Paper Book
Another tempest in a teapot from the national bestselling author of The Jasmine Moon Murder. At Charleston's Spoleto festival, teashop owner Theodosia Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain. But rain proves to be the least of her problems after a...
Alice's tulips
Dallas, Sandra.
Paper Book
Rich in details of quilting, Civil War-era America, and the realities of life in the 19th century, Alice's Tulips is the triumphant story of one woman's survival during a time of murder, intrigue, and treachery.
The blue flower
Fitzgerald, Penelope.
Paper Book
In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man,...
Secrets of the tulip sisters
Mallery, Susan
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! Told with Susan Mallery's trademark heart and humor, this is a charming tale about the problem with secrets, the power of love and the unbreakable bond between sisters. Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty...
Modern Flower Painter Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in Watercolour
Mason, Anna.
Paper Book
Learn how to paint botanical watercolor flowers using an award-winning artist's 6-stage technique in this workbook featuring 6 step-by-step projects!   Award-winning floral artist Anna Mason shares her innovative watercolor technique so that you can paint botanical watercolor...
Poison flower : a Jane Whitefield novel
Perry, Thomas
Paper Book
Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is high....
Within a budding grove
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Paper Book
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually...
Heirloom roses
Reddell, Rayford Clayton.
Paper Book
If you love roses, chances are you love heirloom roses best. Big and fragrant, they are valued for their beauty and connection to the pastand for their very practical hardiness. In Heirloom Roses, celebrated rosarian Ray Reddell surveys the virtues of all three kinds of heirloom roses, namely,...
The meaning of flowers
Scoble, Gretchen.
Paper Book
Should you send a rose of crimson or of white to the one you love? What gift of flowers best expresses thanks to a dear friend? From ancient days, long before words complicated what we say to one another, flowers have been our messengers, invested with our most cherished feelings. Illustrated...
Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound...
All the flowers kneeling
Tran, Paul, (Poet)
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker  "Paul Tran's debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice...

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