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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never played a major part in the southern agricultural economy. Why, then, have southerners - and Georgians in particular - clung to the fruit? 'The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 79 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
6) Peach & Blue
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A frog helps a peach see the world and the peach shows the frog sights he has never seen before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the much-despised mother of the spoiled teenage Peach Queen is found murdered, Nola Mae Harper, who is coordinating both the cotillion dinner and the grand opening of her new shop, must prove that her friend, Ginny, is innocent of the crime by drawing out the real killer. By the author of Peaches and Scream. Includes recipes.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on the trail of a brutal ganglord - When a young man is found with gunshot wounds outside the Thorley Grange estate, DCI Percy Peach is immediately on the case. The estate has recently been taken over by Oliver Ketley, a generous local benefactor leading a double life as a ruthless ganglord. Peach quickly sets out to find the connection between him and the injured man, but Ketley faces much bigger problems:...
10) The last peach
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Gus Gordon's The Last Peach is the story of two indecisive bugs contemplating eating the last peach of the summer in a hilarious picture book about anticipation and expectation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she returns home to run her family's peach farm in Cays Mills, Georgia, while her parents are away, Nola Mae Harper discovers a number of threats facing the farm, especially after she finds a murdered businessman on her land.
12) Dusty death
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone in Brunton is happy to see the decaying, uninhabitable houses demolished. Happy, that is, until the clearance reveals a grisly secret – a corpse of a squatter. Detective Chief Inspector Peach investigates, but finds that the memories of the victim's former companions are not easily stirred about things they would rather forget.
13) A necessary end
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfred Norbury is a learned man. He is never afraid to display his erudition, but he is generous in his encouragement of younger people. The people who assemble around him to form a reading club are also learned. Some of them are simply well-read, whilst others have formal qualifications which rival those of Norbury. But learning is no protection against violence. Murder arrives suddenly, brutally and unexpectedly. The investigation led by Detective...
14) Wages of sin
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex, unpleasant case on his hands. He begins to interview local prostitutes and their customers, including a divorced policeman and a Catholic priest at odds with his beliefs. But did one of them kill the girl or was one of the town's more sinister thugs responsible?
15) Brothers' tears
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in “a formidable puzzle” for the “indomitable” British detective (Kirkus Reviews).
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
16) War and peach
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of the mayoral candidates, local farmer Clem Rogers, is murdered, all eyes turn to his rival--small-business owner Margie Price--and it is up to Nola Mae Harper to find the truth before the killer casts another fatal vote.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this fun and imaginative collection, husband-and-wife team Jessica and Stephen Rose, who sell Georgia peaches throughout Nashville from their Peach Truck, superbly demonstrate the peach's versatility in a wide array of sweet and savory dishes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton's most famous residents. For the past few years he has played the lead role in a TV detective show that has been a worldwide success. He now believes it is his time for a crack at Hollywood, and, as plans are made for the fifth series, he doesn't care who he has to betray in order to fulfill his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Percy Peach, now happily married to Lucy Blake, is at a loose end and is in danger of being drawn into...
20) Only a game
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Foul play's afoot at Bruton Rovers Football Club. - Bruton Rovers FC has been promoted to the Premiership, but Jim Capstick's days as Chairman have made him some enemies in the Lancashire mill town. With the team fighting relegation, the debts are piling high. But when the club is rocked by a murder after Jim makes a surprise announcement, the question's not who had the motive, but who had the balls to actually do it. 'Percy' Peach and DS Lucy Blake...
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