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As summer break arrives before her final year of college, life as she knows it comes to a screeching halt when her grandmother needs assistance running the family-owned business. Without giving it a second thought, Paris dives in head first, and while learning the ropes, she encounters a roughneck named Sterling. While romance is the farthest thing from her mind, Paris discovers that she thoroughly enjoys Sterling's company. 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But throughout it all what abides is the land itself, its gifts and spirits and seasonal graces. A story within a story, the tale is told by the commune's sole remaining occupant to an enigmatic stranger. Herself a recent urban exile exploring the ways of rural living, she succeeds in coaxing him through his rememberings away from grief into renewed life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDes Kennedy brings his signature humour and intimate knowledge of gardens and woodlands to this engaging novel. Throughout \u003ci\u003eCommune\u003c\/i\u003e, Kennedy poses the big questions--how do we best live our lives? Build community? 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With histrademark self-effacing humor, the author captures the essence of the gardening experience, exploring his triumphs, failures, mishaps, and occasional magic. Undaunted by setbacks andlusting for the perfect garden, Kennedy takes readers with him on a gardening journey rich with insights and adventures. The effects of devastating snow storms; the slow-food cuisine of rutabagas, parsnips, and carrots; the gardener's inalienable right to dress in rags; the outlandish behaviour and florid oratory induced by flowering poppies these and scores of other topics meander through the book's gardening year alternately informing, inspiring, and amusing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52666131742993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52666132693265,"sku":"NLS9781553653707","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781553653707.jpg?v=1762279149"},{"product_id":"heart-soil-book-des-kennedy-9781550176322","title":"Heart \u0026 Soil","description":"Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kennedy recounts one newspaper's April Fool's Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man's Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, admits he once wanted to write a stump-puller's guide to the universe and contemplates the dark beauty--and rat feces smell--of a voodoo lily. 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