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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Needle lace flowers
Cakir, Figen.
Paper Book
An introduction to the traditional Turkish needlecraft of Oya Clear, step-by-step instructions for making more than 25 needle lace flowers: daffodils, daisies, roses, lilies, chrysanthemums, poinsettias, and more Includes beautiful projects, such as a lace-edge shawl and a...
500 flowers
Camp, Roger.
Paper Book
Using stunning digital photographic techniques, Roger Camp creates vistas of extraordinary colour, combining varieties of plant species in glorious collages. This is a highly unusual and delightful gift book which appeals to a very broad audience including not just gardeners or amateur and...
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.
Photographing flowers : exploring macro worlds
Davis, Harold
Paper Book
Capture stunning macro floral images with this gorgeous guide by acclaimed photographer Harold Davis. You'll learn about different types of flowers, macro equipment basics, and the intricacies of shooting different floral varieties in the field and in the studio. Harold also shows you...
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,...
Furious flower : seeding the future of African American poetry
Gabbin, Joanne V.
Paper Book
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta...
Flowers in oils
Gregory, Noel.
Paper Book
With the emphasis on the simple development of paintings from the original idea through to build up of colours and brushwork, Noel Gregory presents an ideal book for anyone interested in painting flowers. They can be painted in the crudest manner or with great sensitivity, with detail or without.....
Flowers and herbs of early America
Griffith, Lawrence D.
Paper Book
A detailed look at early American flowers and herbs, with expert advice on creating a garden with historically accurate plants Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among...
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...
The 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...
Leisure Arts Flowers in Acrylics O/P
Massey, C.
Paper Book
An easy-to-follow, step by step guide to creating wonderful acrylic paintings.
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....
In the shadow of young girls in flower
Proust, Marcel
Paper Book
Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann’s Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American...
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 rose bible
Reddell, Rayford Clayton.
Paper Book
In one engagingly written, frankly opinionated, lavishly illustrated volume, America's leading authority on roses reveals everything the gardener needs to know about the most popular of all garden plants: from how to grow and maintain them to critical information for the most experienced gardener on...
The rose garden
Rees, Tracy
Paper Book
Spellbinding historical fiction from the acclaimed author of Amy Snow, spanning the luxury and poverty of Victorian England. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Rachel Hore, and Tracy Chevalier.1895. Hampstead, London.Olive Westallen lives a privileged, if rather lonely, life in her...
Flower of Iowa
Ringel, Lance
Paper Book
Lance Ringel's Flower of Iowa is a sprawling tale of battle and romance during the First World War, the four years that tore Europe in half and hastened the end of an era. In the tradition of stirring historical novels, this epic book showcases courage, the resilience of the human spirit, and the...
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...
Easy care shade flowers
Taylor, Patricia A.
Paper Book
Design a garden filled with flowers or foliage every season of the year with Patricia Taylor's lively, lavishly illustrated book. An experienced shade gardener, Taylor tells readers how to select plants, evaluate the soil, simplify pest control and eliminate chemical fertilizers. Detailed...
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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