The Apple Orchard

Author: Susan Wiggs
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778318338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 507

Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers into the lush abundance of Sonoma County, in a story of sisters, friendship and the invisible bonds of history that are woven like a spell around us. Tess Delaney loves illuminating history; returning stolen treasures to their rightful owners and filling the spaces in people's hearts with stories of their family legacies. But Tess's own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, and a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. Then the enigmatic Dominic Rossi arrives on her San Francisco doorstep with the news that the grandfather she's never met is in a coma and that she's destined to inherit half of a hundred-acre apple orchard estate called Bella Vista. The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen, the half sister she never knew she had. Isabel is everything Tess isn't, but against the rich landscape of Bella Vista, with Isabel and Dominic by her side, Tess begins to discover a world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep.

The Apple Orchard Riddle (Mr. Tiffin's Classroom Series)

Author: Margaret McNamara
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0375987835
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested, how cider is made, and what the different varieties of apples are—while trying to solve a riddle. The book also celebrates how some children learn differently than others. Margaret McNamara and illustrator G. Brian Karas bring us another fun and educational picture book.

A Day at the Apple Orchard

Author: Megan Faulkner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439799096
Category : Apples
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
It's fall, and the days are getting cooler. As the leaves begin to change color, the apple trees are heavy with fruit and ready for the harvest. It's time to go apple picking! Join us on a visit to the apple orchard to learn all about apples: how they grow, the best way to pick them, and how to make delicious apple cider.

The Apple Orchard

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846148847
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Taking us through the seasons in England's apple-growing heartlands, this magical book uncovers the stories and folklore of our most familiar fruit. 'An orchard is not a field. It's not a forest or a copse. It couldn't occur naturally; it's definitely cultivated. But an orchard doesn't override the natural order: it enhances it, dresses it up. It demonstrates that man and nature together can - just occasionally - create something more beautiful and (literally) more fruitful than either could alone. The vivid brightness of the laden trees, studded with jewels, stirs some deep race memory and makes the heart leap. Here is bounty, and excitement.'

The Ghost Orchard

Author: Helen Humphreys
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443451533
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
For readers of H is for Hawk and The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard is award-winning author Helen Humphreys’ fascinating journey into the secret history of an iconic food. Delving deep into the storied past of the apple in North America, Humphreys explores the intricate link between agriculture, settlement, and human relationships. With her signature insight and exquisite prose, she brings light to such varied topics as how the apple first came across the Atlantic Ocean with a relatively unknown Quaker woman long before the more famed “Johnny Appleseed”; how bountiful Indigenous orchards were targeted to be taken over or eradicated by white settlers and their armies; how the once-17,000 varietals of apple cultivated were catalogued by watercolour artists from the United States’ Department of Pomology; how apples wove into the life and poetry of Robert Frost; and how Humphreys’ own curiosity was piqued by the Winter Pear Pearmain, believed to be the world’s best tasting apple, which she found growing beside an abandoned cottage not far from her home. In telling this hidden history, Humphreys writes movingly about the experience of her research, something she undertook as one of her closest friends was dying. The result is a book that is both personal and universal, combining engaging storytelling, historical detail, and deep emotional insight.

A Day at the Apple Orchard

Author: Amy Ackelsberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698145909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Celebrate the fall season with Strawberry Shortcake and her friends in this brand-new story!

The Apple Orchard Cookbook

Author: Janet M. Christensen
Publisher: Countryman Press
ISBN: 9780936399324
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
This fun and practical cookbook, finally back in print, covers apple varieties, facts, and history before it dives into apple recipes for every course of a meal—from “Appletizers” to apple entreÌes, apple soups to apple desserts, everything you ever wanted to know about cooking with apples is right here. Beginning cooks will appreciate the easy-to-follow instructions while seasoned cooks will enjoy some delicious challenges that are sure to delight everyone at the table. More than 100 apple recipes make America’s favorite fruit exciting again!

The Beekeeper's Ball

Author: Susan Wiggs
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1460398971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest…and family secrets that have long been buried Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school—a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own.

Intensive Orchard Management

Author: Bruce Harold Barritt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description

The Apple Orchard

Author: Erik Jacobsen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496913140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
It's 1977 and troubled thirteen year-old Joe Shepard has been banished by his parents to spend the summer out at his Great-Uncle Amil's ranch. the two of them will bond quickly over stories of baseball's glorious past. But when the heat of the summer days drive his uncle indoors, Joe's restlessness will spark his sense of adventure. His explorations will take him beyond the borders of the ranch--leading to a ghoulish discovery amongst the fence posts of the neighboring farm to the east. and then there is Emily--the beautiful and enigmatic girl he befriends. Her dress, her mannerism--look so out of place in the middle of a dusty apple orchard. Joe will discover why their friendship is truly unique, and in doing so, realize that the similarities between he and his uncle are many. Erik Jacobsen weaves an intricate story of intersecting subplots and fascinating characters spanning almost 90 years. the Apple Orchard is a lyrical tale of the continual struggle of good versus evil, of death and betrayal, and the loss of innocence. It is about the seemingly little insignificant choices made every day--how action, as well as inaction, can bring the gravest of consequences.