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message 1: by Tien (last edited Jan 04, 2016 02:04PM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9026 comments Mod
Happy New Year, everyone! I've been out all day, family day at the beach (our NY day tradition) and weather was absolutely wonderful today :D
I hope you've all had a fantastic NYE and a lovely NY day!

Long Wavy Grass

We can't go over it,
We can't go under it,
Oh-No, we've got to go through it!

Swishy Swashy
Swishy Swashy
Swishy Swashy


Your clues:
1. plant/s on cover (note: must rustle if you run your hands through)
2. name of plant on title (excludes flowers and fruits)
3. name of plant as author's name (must be exact spelling & excludes flowers and fruits)


Please note which clue your book fits.

This list might help:



message 3: by Tien (last edited Jan 16, 2017 07:53PM) (new)

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Clue #2: name of plant on title (excludes flowers and fruits)

Ash
Ash (Destined #1)
Aspen
The Aspen Account
Aspen Allegations (Sutton Massachusetts Mystery #1)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Bamboo and Butterflies: From Refugee to Citizen
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
The Bamboo Stalk
The Bean Trees
Beneath the Aspens (Tree Series)
Best of Thymes
Beyond the Aspen Grove
Big Wheat
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Blue Aspen
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy Breaking Bamboo (China Trilogy #2)
Broken Ferns (Lei Crime #4)
Brother Juniper's Bread Book
The Burning of Cork
The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia
The Catcher in the Rye
Choiring of the Trees
Cork Boat
Cork on the Water
The Cottage on Juniper Ridge (Life in Icicle Falls #4)
Cotton
The Cotton Queen
Counting Thyme
The Country of Pointed Firs
Dandelion Wine (Green Town #1)
Daughter of the Bamboo Forest
Deadly Thyme
The Desert of Wheat
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1)
Empire of Cotton
The Enchanted Island of Yew
Eucalyptus
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-Folio. 2D Series. with Original Designs by Fred M. Coffin.
The Fern Tattoo
Far From the Tree
The First Fig Tree
Forged In Ash (Red-Hot SEALs #2)
The Ginger Tree
Gone Bamboo
A Grain of Wheat
Grass Soup
The Grass is Singing
The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant #6)
The Heather Blazing
High Cotton: Selected Stories
Hills of Wheat (Amish of Lancaster #2)
The House on Maple Street
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1)
In the Land of Cotton
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve
Island of the Red Mangroves (Jamaika #2)
The Ivy Crown
Juniper (Doran #2)
Juniper Berry
The Juniper Bush
Juniper Fuse
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary
Juniper Tree Burning
King's Oak
The Land that Thyme Forgot
Mandie and the Jumping Juniper (Mandie #18)
Maples Rejuvenating Cocktail
Miracles of Maple Hill
The Mulberry Tree
Murder in Mount Holly
Murder at the Maple Festival
Only Wheat not White
Picking Cotton
A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocketful of Rye
The Poisonwood Bible
Powder Blue Tweed & Rye
Red Hills and Cotton
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby #1)
Rosemary and Mistletoe (Rosemary #1.5)
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1)
Rosemary and Rue
Rosemary Cottage (Hope Beach #2)
Rosemary for Remembrance and Rue for Repentance (The Janna Mysteries #1-2)
Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles #4)
The Rosemary Spell
The Rosemary Tree
Rush Oh!
Rye
Sad Cypres
The Scent of Pine
Second Thyme Around
The Shattered Vine (Vineart War #3)
The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden
Snow Falling on Cedars
So Far from the Bamboo Grove (So Far from the Bamboo Grove #1)
Some Prefer Nettles
Songs of Willow Frost
Sprig of Thyme
The Summer of Cotton Candy (Sweet Seasons #1)
Sweet Grass:Lives of Contemporary Native Women of the Northeast
Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2) The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Tall Pine Polka
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tavern on Maple Street
There's Rosemary, There's Rue
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
Thyme: Brave and True
Thyme of Death (China Bayles #1)
The Thyme Fiend
Thyme for Trust (The Janna Mysteries #6)
Thyme Running Out (The Tartan of Thyme #2)
The Time of Aspen Falls
To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Tree of Man
Under the Aspens (The Aspen #1)
Under the Maples
Watching the Tree
The Wheat Field (Pliny Pennington #1)
The Wheat Money
The Wheat Princess
Wheat that Springeth Green
Where the Wheat Blows: A Love Story
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wind in the Wheat
The Wind in the Willows
Winter Wheat
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (Mushroom Planet #1)
Wormwood

Clue #3: name of plant as author's name (must be exact spelling & excludes flowers and fruits)

Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes (Guardians of Eternity #1)
Alyssa Rose Ivy - The Crescent Chronicles
Angie Sage - Septimus Heap series
Ashley Hay - The Railwayman's Wife
Aspen Baker - Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
Aspen Morrow - Med Free Bipolar: Thrive Naturally using the Med Free Method
Aspen in the sunlight - A year like none other series
Bamboo HirstBlue China
Brad FernThe immaculate
Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie
Caroline Blackwood - Great Granny Webster
Caroline Linden - One Night in London (The Truth About the Duke #1)
Carolyn Wheat - How to Write Killer Fiction
Daniel Cotton - Life Among the Dead series
Daphne Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
Donna Hay - Waiting in the Wings
Ed Wheat - Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love and Stay in Love
Fern Chandonnet Alaska at War, 1941-1945: The Forgotten War Remembered
Fern J. Hill Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst
Fern Logan The Artist Portrait Series: Images of Contemporary African American Artist
Fern Michaels - Weekend Warriors (Sisterhood #1)
Fern Moore The Confessions of a Drug Addicted Daughter: Society's Child
G. Willow Wilson - Alif the Unseen
Gillian Linden - Remember How I told you I Love You?
Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum (The Danzig Trilogy #1)
Hannah Reed - Off Kilter (Scottish Highlands #1)
Heather Graham -The Unseen (Krewe of Hunters #5)
Holly Bennett - The Bonemender trilogy
Holly Black - Zombies Vs. Unicorn / Red Glove (Curse Worker #2)
Holly Ford - Blackpeak Station
Holly Thompson - Orchards
Jennifer Sage - Guardian Archives series
Jesse Sage - Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery
Jessica Aspen - Tales of the Black Court series
John CorkJames Bond: The Legacy 007
Kendra Bean - Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
L.A. Cotton - Chastity Falls series
Lorna Sage - Bad Blood
Matthew Cork Why Not Today: Trafficking, Slavery, the Global Church . . . and You
Nancy Bush - Nowhere to Run (Nowhere #1)
Nina Rowan - A Study in Seduction (Daring Hearts #1)
Richard CorkDavid Bomberg
Romy Ash - Floundering
Rosemary Gemmell - The Highland Lass
Rosemary Sutcliff - The Dolphin Ring Cycle Series / Dragon Slayer: The Story of Beowulf - The Memory Book
Rye Barcott - It Happened On the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
Sage Blackwood - Jinx series
Sage Collins - Love Sucks
Tara Moss - Makedde Vanderwall series
Tommy CottonJust Went Out for Milk
Tony Juniper - What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees / Saving Planet Earth
Vena Cork - Rosa Thorn series
William R. Maples - Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

Points

6 - Amanda
7 - Karen
12 - Amy
16 - Lauren
18 - LynnB
20 - Coralie
21 - LynM
33 - Karin
45 - Tien
71 - Bea
190 - Julie


message 4: by Coralie (new)

Coralie | 1658 comments I'm not good with pictures and covers but I should think that some of these plants would rustle
Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende


message 5: by Bea (last edited Jan 01, 2016 03:20AM) (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
For clue #1:

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Runaway by Alice Munro Wanting by Richard Flanagan


message 6: by Karen (last edited Jan 01, 2016 04:43AM) (new)

Karen (karenofthebookworm) Clue #2

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford


message 7: by Karen (new)

Karen (karenofthebookworm) Clue #1

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells


message 8: by Karen (last edited Jan 01, 2016 05:17AM) (new)


message 9: by Amy (new)

Amy | 2230 comments For Clue #1:

The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger


message 10: by LynnB (new)

LynnB | 1757 comments Clue #1
Ride with Me, Mariah Montana by Ivan Doig , rustling grasses

Clue #2
Far from the Tree

Clue #3
Orchards by Holly Thompson


message 11: by LynnB (new)

LynnB | 1757 comments Clue #1

Catching Air by Sarah Pekkanen , trees
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb , trees
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah , trees
Boone's Lick  by Larry McMurtry , grasses
The Son by Philipp Meyer , grasses


message 14: by Julie (last edited Jan 01, 2016 10:57AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 126 comments Clue #1
The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin , grass Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov , meadow The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton , trees and. Branches No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon , bushes and trees Shoots, Leaves & Eats Easy To Grow Fruit, Vegetables And Herbs With Irresistible Recipes by Fran Archway , herbs Obedience by Jacqueline Yallop , grass Warrior Daughter by Janet Paisley , bushes and trees The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing , dry meadow grass Grass (Arbai, #1) by Sheri S. Tepper , sea grass? In fore ground A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn , grass and trees Mortal Arts (Lady Darby, #2) by Anna Lee Huber , grass The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig , grass The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn , grass The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth , grass The Accidental by Ali Smith , trees The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis , palm tree An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro , Japanese Cyprus

Clue # 2

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski The House of Leaves by Nathaniel Tarn The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare House of Five Leaves, Vol. 1 by Natsume Ono The House Of Trembling Leaves by Julian Lees A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Shoots, Leaves & Eats Easy To Grow Fruit, Vegetables And Herbs With Irresistible Recipes by Fran Archway A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn
Clue #3

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

I hope I did that right. I thought more would make the chains easier.


message 15: by Amy (new)

Amy | 2230 comments Clue #1: The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

Clue #2:
Hyperion (type of tree)
The Mulberry Tree


message 16: by Bea (last edited Jan 01, 2016 11:52AM) (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
Clue #1:
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini grass
Northanger Abbey (Annotated) by Jane Austen bushes
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood trees
A Murderous Procession (Mistress of the Art of Death #4) by Ariana Franklin bushes
Dire Threads (Threadville Mystery, #1) by Janet Bolin tree branches
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton grass

Clue #2:
Sweet Grass: Lives of Contemporary Native Women of the Northeast
The First Fig Tree


message 20: by Tien (last edited Jan 01, 2016 04:32PM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9026 comments Mod
Oh wow! I see a number of books I'd like to ads to my tbr! Oops, not a good game for my tbr, I'm such a glutton!

And yes, more books mean easier to do Chains with. Most of these listed looks good but...
@Julie: clue #2 requires name of plant on title not parts of plants... sorry!


message 21: by Julie (new)

Julie  Webb | 126 comments Tien wrote: "Oh wow! I see a number of books I'd like to ads to my tbr! Oops, not a good game for my tbr, I'm such a glutton!

And yes, more books mean easier to do Chains with. Most of these listed looks good ..."


Someone had to be the one to mess up lol. I agree, not got for my tbr.


message 22: by Tien (last edited Jan 01, 2016 05:36PM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9026 comments Mod
Clue #1:
Dark Country by Bronwyn Parry The Dark World (Dark World, #1) by Cara Lynn Shultz The Great Hunt (The Great Hunt, #1) by Wendy Higgins The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss Paper Cities An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia Shame and the Captives by Tom Keneally The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth


message 23: by Amy (last edited Jan 01, 2016 08:13PM) (new)


message 24: by Lauren (last edited Jan 02, 2016 12:15AM) (new)

Lauren (laurenjberman) | 1216 comments Clue #1: Plant/s on cover

Season of Darkness (Detective Inspector Tom Tyler, #1) by Maureen Jennings Ravished by Amanda Quick Rotten to the Core (Orchard, #2) by Sheila Connolly Death Comes to the Village (Kurland St. Mary Mystery, #1) by Catherine Lloyd The Missing (The FBI Psychics, #1) by Shiloh Walker Saint's Gate (Sharpe & Donovan, #1) by Carla Neggers Shattered Secrets (Cold Creek, #1) by Karen Harper Trust No One by Jayne Ann Krentz Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery, #1) by Laura Childs Broken Angels (Katie Maguire, #2) by Graham Masterton Unspeakable (Tracers, #2) by Laura Griffin

Clue #2: Plant in title
Forged In Ash

Clue #3: Plant in author name
Nowhere to Run by Nancy Bush
A Study in Seduction by Nina Rowan
The Unseen by Heather Graham
One Night in London by Caroline Linden


message 25: by Bea (last edited Jan 02, 2016 03:52AM) (new)

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Oh, gee. #1 is any plant...I was only thinking grasses and bushes...well, here goes more.

Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery, #2) by Laura Childs Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner Angel's Verdict (Beaufort & Company Mystery, #4) by Mary Stanton The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley The Siege by Helen Dunmore The Paris Lawyer by Sylvie Granotier Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


message 26: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
more #1:
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch The Garden of Evening Mists  by Tan Twan Eng 'Til Death Do Us Part by Pat Warren I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg The Distant Hours by Kate Morton West of Here by Jonathan Evison The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift

OK. That finishes this clue for my lists.


message 37: by Bea (last edited Jan 06, 2016 02:33PM) (new)

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Completed shelving through post #34.


message 38: by Tien (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9026 comments Mod
Clue #1:

Jillaroo (Jillaroo #1) by Rachael Treasure


message 39: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
Completed shelving through post #38.


message 40: by Tien (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9026 comments Mod
Just adding another book I'm planning on reading the next few weeks (ie. I just came back from the library ;p)

Angela by James Moloney
Clue #1


message 41: by Coralie (new)

Coralie | 1658 comments A few more for Clue #1
The Monsoon Bride by Michelle Aung Thin Heidi's Children by Charles Tritten Lyonesse The Green Pearl (Lyonesse, #2) by Jack Vance Solstice Wood (Winter Rose, #2) by Patricia A. McKillip


message 43: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
Clue #1:
Sea Swept (Chesapeake Bay Saga, #1) by Nora Roberts Crystal Line (Crystal Singer, #3) by Anne McCaffrey The Hornet's Nest A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter Jephte's Daughter by Naomi Ragen The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman One Step Behind (Wallander, #7) by Henning Mankell The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan Five Seasons by Abraham B. Yehoshua The Pony Wife by Beverly Bird The Priest's Graveyard by Ted Dekker The Cider House Rules by John Irving Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1) by Linda Castillo The Bungalow by Sarah Jio A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County, #3) by Karin Slaughter The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7) by Jacqueline Winspear Blood Magick (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #3) by Nora Roberts Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson A Beautiful Place to Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #1) by Malla Nunn First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny Good Girls by Karen Young A Story of Deep Delight by Thomas McNamee

Would Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor count? The green should be grass.


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message 45: by Lyn (Readinghearts) (last edited Jan 08, 2016 02:56PM) (new)


message 46: by Susan (new)

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completed shelving through post # 45


message 47: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
Clue #1:
The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns Burial Rites by Hannah Kent


message 48: by Lyn (Readinghearts) (last edited Jan 11, 2016 12:30PM) (new)


message 49: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5265 comments Mod
more clue #1
A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals, #1) by Michelle Cooper Holding Out for Doctor Perfect by Teresa Southwick (it is hard to see but there is a potted plant behind the man - I own the book and can see it on the book itself easier than online.)


Lyn (Readinghearts) (lsmeadows) | 2895 comments Mod
Another Clue #2

Leaves of Grass


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