✦ LIBER ✦

The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns

✍ Scribed by Margaret Dilloway

Publisher: Penguin Group US;G.P. Putnam's Sons
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 273 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 110158887X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

*Winner of the ALA Reading List Award

Difficult and obstinate. Thriving under a set of specific and limited conditions. That pretty much describes me. Maybe that's why I like these roses so much.*

Roses are Galilee Garner's passion. An amateur breeder, she painstakingly cross-pollinates her plants to coax out new, better traits, striving to create a perfect strain of her favorite flower, the Hulthemia. Her dream is to win a major rose competition and one day have her version of the bloom sold in the commercial market.

Gal carefully calibrates the rest of her time to manage the kidney failure she's had since childhood, going to dialysis every other night, and teaching high school biology, where she is known for her exacting standards. The routine leaves little room for relationships, and Gal prefers it that way. Her roses never disappoint her the way people have.

Then one afternoon, Riley, the teenaged daughter of Gal's estranged...

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