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English
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Set in South Carolina during the summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge...
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Series
Lowcountry tales volume 12
Language
English
Description
""If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank."--Elin Hildebrand, the New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69, The Perfect Couple, and The Identicals Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken...
5) The Beeman
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Language
English
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In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
6) Grey bees
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under constant threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's...
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English
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"The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream working alongside her father on their small farm until his unexpected death thrusts a new part-owner into her world. Callie Peterson threatens not only her livelihood, but her beliefs about the goodness of the man she'd always perceived to be her kind and faithful father"--
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Deborah Lantz hopes to leave her new home in Texas as soon as she can, until she gets to know Phineas King, a beekeeper's son with a face disfigured in an accident, who is struggling to rediscover his faith in God.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First William Morrow Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Amelie and Chocolat, Sarah-Kate Lynch's THE WEDDING BEES is a charming, witty, honey-sweet novel about finding new love, letting go of the past, and the magic of rooftop honey in New York City"--
15) Five boys
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Evacuated from World War II London to a remote Devonshire village, Bobby tries to fit in with the community's many eccentric "stay behind" citizens, including the enigmatic Bee King and a group of bullies who torture him and accuse him of being a spy.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Chateau Bellevue. The old chateau echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman's story, a story that could change the course of her summer - and her life. In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Chateau Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The son of a beekeeper, Jonathan is not sturdy enough to do some of the work, but with the support of his mother he finds a way to help the family and form a bond with his father. Includes bee facts.
19) Beekeepers
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in spring.
20) McKay's bees
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1979
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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