flowers | flowers
Aug.05.2009
In her adult title Harem: The World behind the Veil (1989), Croutier explored the Grand Harem in Istanbul's Tokapi Palace, and she returns to this evocative setting in her first novel for young people.
The year is 1720. Twelve-year-old Leyla has always been privy to a happy lifestyle in Istanbul...
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Aug.04.2008
We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So it’s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers...
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