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1) Palimpsest
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.…
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the...
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the...
Author
Series
Honeybee sisters volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Affectionately dubbed The Honeybee Sisters in their Wisconsin Amish community, the three Christner girls are devoted beekeepers who are coming-of-age--and discovering the sweet surprise of love... Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt's unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie . A childhood trauma and secret shame keep her heart...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job. Then, for good luck, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good fortune, and the author embarks on an emotional, rewarding journey during the course of a year as she cares for these wondrous beings and learns the art of beekeeping." --
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees -- and the singular world of his fellow bee-keepers. In connecting with a club of disparate but kindred spirits, he discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see, think, and feel; how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats, both human and mite. Mortimer delivers...
Author
Series
Climate novels volume 1
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The beekeeper knows a lot about bees, from constructing hives to taking care of the insects to collecting honey. When there's a lot of sunshine and many flowers, it becomes all buzzy business ... And did you know that without bees, we wouldn't be able to enjoy delicious fruits and vegetables?"-From back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Deborah Lantz arrives in Bee County, Texas, she expects to find a great oasis of citrus groves and olive trees. Instead, she finds a tiny Amish district struggling to make ends meet on a barren, drought-stricken land. She can't believe God created such an ugly place filled with strange animals, twisted, stunted trees, and not a drop of rain for months. Then she meets the beekeeper's son. Phineas King's face is disfigured by scars from an accident...
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Republication of a 1921 novel about James Lewis MacFarlane, a young WWI soldier who walks away from the rehabilitation hospital where he has been sent to recover from his wounds, and whose courage and kindness are rewarded by adventure, happiness, and love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"It's a real buzz-kill when [Moraine, Wisconsin] beekeeper Story Fischer gets a visit from her frantic sister, desperate for help hosting a combative trio of employees that Holly's husband, Max, has brought home for a weekend of R and R. Good thing the well-stocked shelves of Story's grocery store, the Wild Clover, can provide assistance. During an afternoon tour of Story's hives, however, one of the guests drops dead. Just what Story needs only days...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge"--
Author
Series
Unexpected gifts volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The quietest of the three Kanagy boys, Daniel, would prefer to spend his time keeping his bees and selling the honey rather than tending his family's gift shop. But with both his brothers breaking away from the family business, his parents need Daniel more than ever. Contrary to town gossip, Faith Kemp didn't jump the fence-she left to track down her twin sister, Mercy. When Faith returns home with a newborn baby, the rumors are tough to set right,...
14) Beewitched
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"Beekeeper Story Fischer has stocked the shelves of her market, The Wild Clover, in preparation for the influx of produce-crazy tourists about to invade Moraine, Wisconsin. In fact, with the apple cider and caramel apple stand on Main Street and the corn maze out at Country Delight Farm, the whole town is ready for the swarm. But when a self-proclaimed witch moves into town, the neighbors are all abuzz with questions. Is the quirky newcomer a good...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Story Fischer has her hands full with her successful local market, her Queen Bee Honey business, and her new maybe boyfriend, Hunter Wallace, but being abandoned by a hive looking for better digs puts the busy beekeeper in a bad mood. While she looks for the hive, the rest of Moraine, Wisconsin is searching for a woman with a checkered past whose return has the whole town buzzing. When she finds the dead body in the woods, she's in a sticky situation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Taking a job in Silver Creek, Carissa Taylor, on the run from a vengeful killer, finally finds a place to call home until her past catches up to her, leading her into the arms of rancher Chase Bishop, who will stop at nothing to keep her safe.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it's the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees. But when a beautiful beekeeper arrives to take care of the pests, Agatha may be in danger of being stung by something far more dangerous...Penelope...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of John Miller, one of the foremost migratory beekeepers, who, despite mysterious epidemics that threaten American honey populations--and the nation's agribusiness--forges on and moves ahead in a new natural world.
Author
Series
Bella Vista volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabel Johansen is a celebrated chef, who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel. Isabel is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school - a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Surveying Bella Vista's lush vineyards and abundant orchards, she decides that the only thing she's lacking is organic honey. The beekeeper, when he arrives, is a bit of a surprise. Isabel wasn't expecting someone...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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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