First Lady of Wildflowers

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Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson

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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

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The Boy from Mexico: An Immigration Story of Bravery and Determination

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Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

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Isabella: Girl in Charge

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Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass

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Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

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Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Two: On Life As a Pioneer Woman

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Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home

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Hair Story

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The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation

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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

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All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia

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Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America

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Ida B. the Queen

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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

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Gitchie Girl Uncovered: The True Story of a Night of Mass Murder and the Hunt for the Deranged Killers

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American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop

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Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth

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Thomas Jefferson

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Death of a Pinehurst Princess: The 1935 Elva Statler Davidson Mystery

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Contenders: America's Most Original Presidential Candidates

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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard

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Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky

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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

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This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

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Wanderer Springs

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Colors of Awesome!: 24 Bold Women Who Inspired the World

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We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

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Refugee

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Little House on the Prairie

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The Devil's Arithmetic

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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

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Anne of Green Gables

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A Night Divided

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On the Banks of Plum Creek

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Little House in the Big Woods

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The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)

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Ground Zero

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Iceberg

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Farmer Boy

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Resistance

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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

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How Do You Live?

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The Wednesday Wars

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)

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Allies

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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark

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Edge of Anarchy: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

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Little Town on the Prairie

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The First Four Years

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The Long Winter

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The Boy on the Wooden Box

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I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001(I Survived #6)

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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

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These Happy Golden Years

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A Place to Hang the Moon

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Mark of the Thief (Mark of the Thief, Book 1)

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February 16, 2022 Marie Clark Taylor, David Austin, the New Jersey State Flower, Sleepy Cat Farm by Caroline Seebohm, and Elizabeth Gilbert:  Subscribe  | | | |   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for    Facebook Group The next time you're on Facebook, search for , where you'd search for a friend and request to join.  ...

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May 2, 2019 Plant Sales, May Fools Day, Rivdan, The White House Gardens Symposium, Jimi Hendrix, Stonewall Jackson, Didier Decoin, Dividing Iris, and The Enid A. Haupt Garden: Ah May... the Month of Plant Sales.   When I started gardening, I would Plant Sale away my Saturdays in May with my dear friend Judy.   We would plan our way to a successful sale day, waking up while it was still dark out.   Then...

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June 10, 2019 The Significance of Lilacs, National Herbs and Spices Day, Jardin des Plantes, Robert Brown, Gorgeous George and Judy Garland's Hibiscus, Frances Theodora Parsons, Natural Selection, Dan Pearson, Box Cutters, and Inspiration from John Burr: My neighbor, up at our cabin, has this amazing copse of lilacs.   We've become good friends and he invited me to take some cuttings of his lilac as a gesture of goodwill.   (He also give me all of his jack-in-the-pulpit - but that's another...

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May 16, 2023 William Henry Seward, Martha Ballard, Luigi Fenaroli, Herbert Ernest Bates, Goldenrod, Of Rhubarb and Roses by Tim Richardson, and Jacob Ritner: Subscribe  | | | |   Support The Daily Gardener     Connect for FREE!  |     Historical Events 1801 William Henry Seward "Sue-erd", an American politician who served as United States Secretary of...

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Outlaws, Cattle Rustling and Bootlegging: The Life of Josie Bassett: The extraordinary tale of a legend of the old west.

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September 24, 2021 Fall Garden To-Dos, Metcalf Bowler, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Wilson Rawls, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Welcome to the Farm by Shaye Elliott, and a Weed Bouquet: Today in botanical history, we celebrate a British Spy/American Farmer, a social reformer and poet, and an American writer. We’ll hear an excerpt from a book written by the beloved Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. We Grow That Garden Library™...

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May 9, 2022 Henri Cassini, Meriwether Lewis, James Matthew Barrie, Sophie Scholl, Patina Living by Steve Giannetti and Brooke Giannetti, and Charles Simic: Subscribe  | | | |   Support The Daily Gardener     Connect for FREE!  |     Historical Events National Public Gardens Week  This week marks the beginning of National Public Gardens Week...

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Ashley Fuller Reed: Disappearance in Dallas: In January 1990, 19-year-old Ashley Reed was new to Dallas, Texas, having moved there only months before with her mom and young brother. Making new friends wasn’t difficult for Ashley, but it was winter and the process going a little slower than it...

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April 10, 2018 Mary Hiester Reid, George Reid, Onteora, Duncan Sutherland Macorquodale, Mary Reynolds, Pruning Grapevines, and the First Arbor Day: Just when you thought you had winter beat… You thought wrong.   Surprise.     Unpredictable weather.   Dicey temperatures.   Gardeners need resilience.  If Spring’s arrival is dashing your hope,  start to look...

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Inside Lady Bird Johnson’s White House: Recording a Public and Private Life: Lady Bird Johnson is best known today as the wife of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the USA between 1963-69. However, there was much more to her life than simply the role of ‘First Lady’. In this episode of Factual America, Matthew...

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June 26, 2019 Moving a Bumblebee Nest, Charles Newbold, Charles Christopher Perry, The Rolling Stones, Margaret Morse Nice, Annette Wynne, Diana Wells, Planting Sunflower Seeds, and San Francisco Gardener John McLaren: Have you ever needed to move a bumblebee nest?   We discovered a nest under the basketball hoop on the driveway when the guys came to sealcoat.   To move it, I waited until dusk. Then I grabbed a terra cotta pot that was a little bigger than...

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For the Birds

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October 1, 2019 International Coffee Day, Jens Jensen, LeRoy Abrams, John and Harvey Ruth, Cyrus Tracy, Daniel Boorstin, Eudora Welty, The Naturalist by Thom Conroy, Dark Times for Poinsettia, and the Restoration of the WIlliam Hallicy Nursery: Today is International Coffee Day. There is a legend that tells of coffee's discovery: In Ethiopia, there was a goatherder who observed his goats didn't want to go to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. After he reported this to...

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Julia Chinn

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August 5, 2019 Tussie Mussies, Jeanne Baret, Fred Paxford, Candice Wheeler, Wendell Barry, The Herb Garden Cookbook by Lucinda Hutson, Start Pansy Seed, Elaine Cramer and the Hydrangea Bloom Festival: One of the things I love to do at the end of spending time in my garden is to make some tussie mussies.   Tussie mussies are also called nosegays or posies; they are small flower bouquets typically given as a gift. Mine are pretty small - with...

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April 25, 2019 A Botanist's Hello, Zucchini Bread Day, President Truman, NPSOT, Gustavus Adolphus College, Marcus E. Jones, Julia Morton, Alice Tangerini, Windflowers, Agnes Falconer, Roger L. Williams, Garden Markers, and George H. Engleheart's Daffodils: Today I learned how botanists used to say "hello" to each other.   In the 1800's and 1900's, a common way for botanists to introduce themselves, often from the other side of the world, was to send each other plant specimens as the foundation...

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Field Trip: Glacier National Park: Today on “Post Reports,” we join The Post’s Lillian Cunningham on her journey through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s most awe-inspiring places: the national parks. Next stop? Glacier.

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May 14, 2019 Garden Experts, Mary Delany, Edward Jenner, John Cushnie, Hal Borland, Ruth Hayden, Slowing Growth in Shade, and the Mayapple: Most gardeners share a common secret: they never feel like they know enough about gardening to call themselves an expert.   If you feel this way after years of gardening, you're not alone.    Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson...

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July 9, 2019 Mulch Placement, Colonel Henry Wallace Johnston, Nikolay Vavilov, George Shull, Emily Dickinson, Answer July, Lives of the Trees by Diana Wells, Wheelbarrow Garden, and Samual Smithers as Plantman: Here's a little primer on mulch placement. Keep mulch away from the bases of plants and trees. Trees can be harmed or killed by mulching too heavily around the trunk. Perennials and other plants can be smothered or damaged by heavy mulch around the...

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June 12, 2019 The Most Fragrant Plants, Meriwether Lewis, Karl Freiherr von Drais, Edward Newman, the Michigan Botanical Club, Frank Nicholas Meyer, June Poetry, Carl Linnaeus, Joseph Banks, Patricia Fara, Perlite, and the Shady Acres Herb Farm: Fragrance in the garden...   The most fragrant blossoms include:   Cheddar pinks (a member of the carnation family) Lavender Peony Gardenia Honeysuckle Hyacinth Lilac Mock Orange Daphne Bee balm     Brevities #OTD  On this...

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April 22, 2022 Mary Russell Mitford, Julius Sterling Morton, August Wilhelm Eichler, Midas Dekkers, The First Mess Cookbook by Laura Wright, and Louise Elisabeth Glück: Subscribe  | | | |   Support The Daily Gardener     Connect for FREE!  |     Historical Events Happy Earth Day - a celebration that started in 1970.   1812 On this day, Mary Russell...

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October 9, 2019 Christmas Cactus, François-Andre Michaux, William Smith, Augustine Henry, Strawberry Fields, Grow In the Dark by Lisa Steinkopf, Climbing Hydrange, and Ailment of Two Boys Solved by Botanist.: Does your Christmas Cactus have red on its leaves? If so, that red is an indication that the plant is stressed out.   It could be that it has that color on the leaves when it’s blooming because blooming puts pressure on the plant.   In...

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Blue Man of Spring Creek

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#387 Hyde Park: The Roosevelts on the Hudson: Tom and Greg visit Hyde Park, New York, and Springwood, the estate of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt. Learn about FDR's life in Hyde Park, tour his home, visit the couple's private cottages and go inside the FDR Presidential Library and Museum.

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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells: Complimenting her own story of self-discovery and activism, Michelle Duster brings to life her great-grandmother’s lifelong dedication to the fight for racial justice.

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June 3, 2019 Half-Hardy Plants, Aristides Simoni, David Douglas, Josephine Baker, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Kiftsgate Court Garden, Vanessa Berridge, Perennials for Wet Areas, Ardenoir, and Charlotte to Grace O'Brien: Half-Hardy Plants. That's a term you don't run into very often - but when you do, it can be confusing.   Just this morning, I swung by a garden center to check out their clearance plants and I ended up chatting with a gardener who had...

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Rachel Carson and the Veery: A story of love, birds, and wonder

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What I Found Written in the Margin

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September 15, 2021 The Torture Orchard, James Gates Percival, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Marjorie Harris, Lauren Oliver, The World was My Garden by David Fairchild, and Ripen Tomatoes Fast: Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American doctor, a Viscountess, and a Canadian fiction writer. We hear a little excerpt about September - such a milestone month for so many people. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of...