Lo Patrick

A girl investigates her mysterious new neighbors, a kidnapping, and a murder, only to find out her parents may have a role in it all.In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy―tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile―fascinates and enamors Kay.Kay is willful and loud-mouthed and doesn't listen when her father tells her to stay away from the Webbers. But when Kay's sister goes missing, the mystery of Nile's wife's death―and her parents' potential role in it―comes to light, and Kay, Andy, and her brothers must navigate the layers of secrets that emerge in the course of the investigation.The Floating Girls is wonderfully atmospheric Southern fiction, a novel that will appeal to r

Addressing ecologists, legislators, lawyers, and industrialists alike, Ruth Patrick asks what has been accomplished with the millions of dollars spent on upgrading our surface waters. Has the water im

Addressing ecologists, legislators, lawyers, and industrialists alike, Ruth Patrick asks what has been accomplished with the millions of dollars spent on upgrading our surface waters. Has the water im

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繽紛的花卉是大自然精巧的作品，不僅點綴著四季的絢麗，還是美好願望的代言。那些在路邊偶然遇到的可愛、美麗的小花，是不是讓你非常喜愛呢？無論是生活中常見的花卉還是藏匿于深山中的各種奇異的花朵，都可以通過你手中的畫筆，讓細膩的筆觸和清新的色彩與那些美麗的花卉來一場幸福、美麗的邂逅。 《色鉛筆繪畫實用教程：經典花語繪》為您完美詮釋了使用彩色鉛筆繪製花卉的經典技法，並細心地解說了眾多花卉的花語。展開書卷，有

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