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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...
Author
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
2015.
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English
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"A lady cop turned farmer. . .What fun!" —Joanne Fluke
Ex-cop Abigail Mackenzie has started a second career—as a farmer. Raising chickens, keeping bees, and growing heirloom vegetables on her farmette in the Bay Area, Abby has a peaceful life. Yet trouble just seems to make a beeline for her. . .
When Abby attempts to deliver her artisanal honey to local pastry chef Jean-Louis Bonheur and finds him dead in his shop, her investigative...
Ex-cop Abigail Mackenzie has started a second career—as a farmer. Raising chickens, keeping bees, and growing heirloom vegetables on her farmette in the Bay Area, Abby has a peaceful life. Yet trouble just seems to make a beeline for her. . .
When Abby attempts to deliver her artisanal honey to local pastry chef Jean-Louis Bonheur and finds him dead in his shop, her investigative...
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...
8) Stolen honey
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former police officer Abigail Mackenzie has made a fresh start as a beekeeper and farmer in picturesque Las Flores, California-but she never suspected her new hometown would prove to be abuzz with murder...
Only hours after Abby's free-spirited friend, Fiona Mary Ryan, owner of Ancient Wisdom Botanicals, missed their lunch date, her body is found in a burning car-a tragic accident until the coroner's report points to murder. Driven by her loyalty...
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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.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirn y pasarn a sus hijas por generaciones.
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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) McKay's bees
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1979
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
16) Sweet as honey
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Smart, kind, and good-hearted, the three Christner girls are affectionately known as The Honeybee Sisters in the beloved Wisconsin Amish community where, under the care of their aunt, they've grown into skilled beekeepers--and lovely, sought-after young women.
17) Honey drop dead
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Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
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.
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"--
20) The honeybee man
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.
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