Poinsettia

You Bet Your Garden, Christmas Spectacular, December 21, 2006, Hörbuch, Digital, 49min

It's our annual You Bet Your Garden Christmas Spectacular! This year, we are listening to some of our favorite interviews and musical selections from previous years. Jane Pepper of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society reveals the secret origin of the holiday poinsettia, Rosie Lerner of Perdue University explains how to care for Christmas cactus, butterfly expert Rick Mikula shows us how to decorate trees with live butterflies, Paul Myer from the Morris Arboretum helps us pick the most colorful hollies for our winter landscape, and Judith Benn Hurley talks about using frankincense and myrrh for their botanical benefits. Plus, Mike McGrath will read one of his special holiday stories. And of course, lots of great holiday tunes from our musical director Kenn Kweder and his Reindeer Band! [Broadcast Date: December 21, 2006] Language: English. Narrator: Mike McGrath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/gard/061221/rt_gard_061221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Peppermint Kiss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 174min

Doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance?Poinsettia Collins hates Christmas. Tia’s lived with that awful name for her whole life, so it was just her luck that her college girlfriend would cheat on her on Christmas Eve. Twenty years later, when Tia unexpectedly inherits a distant relative’s Christmas tree farm, she thinks fate couldn’t be laughing any harder....Then the woman who broke her heart shows up on the farm’s doorstep with a half-frozen kitten and nowhere to go for the holidays.Meg Bartlett’s world fell apart when her girlfriend wrongfully accused her of being unfaithful. When she comes home for Christmas after a long time away, Tia is the last person she expects to see, but maybe now she’ll get the chance to set the record straight. That is, if Tia will finally believe her. And if Tia does...how can she possibly ever win Meg back? Best-selling author Marian Snowe brings you this sweet Christmas novella of second chances and holiday warmth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leanne Woodward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184424/bk_acx0_184424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Animosity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min

Andrew Holland is a best-selling horror writer. While none of Andy's neighbors has any interest in reading his macabre books, they're pleased to have a celebrity author living among them. Then, one morning, Andy finds the body of a child several hundred feet from his front door. A little girl who has been raped and murdered. And everything changes on Poinsettia Lane. Andy's neighbors turn on him. Their animosity is subtle at first: a dirty look from across the street, a friendly wave that is not reciprocated. The local media exacerbates the tension in the neighborhood by insinuating connections between the horror writer's work and his role in the girl's murder. The authorities clear Andy of any wrongdoing, but the stain has set. Before long, this once-quiet, peaceful neighborhood becomes a maelstrom of anxiety and chaos. Andy's neighbors surround his home like a horde of zombies - but instead of a hunger for flesh, these monsters are driven by lies, fear, and hatred. Andy Holland's neighborhood is just like our neighborhoods and his neighbors are our neighbors. They are the people who we interact with on a daily basis and we can easily see them reflected in Newman's characters. That is what makes this book so incredibly frightening. We can easily see what animosity can do to a person. It can bring out the hatred and ugliness in the people we know. Newman's vision of a picturesque community plays out like the classic Twilight Zone episode, 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' as the true villains are those who claim to be "fighting the good fight". Logic gets tossed to the wayside as mob mentality takes over and people begin looking for any reason to point the finger. The interesting thing is that in a world that claims to embrace diversity, the person with the slightest idiosyncrasy is the most commonly persecuted. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fouhey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016425/bk_adbl_016425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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