Kidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDNargi, Lela.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NARChabon, Michael.
Summary: An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChilds, Laura
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChilds, Laura
Summary: "Theodosia's outdoor tea party was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park. But when a shot rings out, Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground--dead. Holly Burns, the gallery owner who asked Theodosia to cater the tea, begs Theodosia to run a shadow investigation and help restore her gallery's good name. Theodosia questions everyone that had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Lola learns all about bees when she visits her mother's friend, Zora, who is a beekeeper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIDAnderson-Dargatz, Gail
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDHargrave, Kiran Millwood
Summary: Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Frank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: "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 quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRANLefteri, Christy
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEFFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: During the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, a young girl is given a home by three black, beekeeping sisters. As she enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, she discovers a place where she can find the single thing her heart longs for most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIDLunde, Maja
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNWiggs, Susan
Summary: Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGCox, Amanda
Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Spectra 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALBoelts, Maribeth
Summary: Kaia, the daughter of a beekeeper, faces her fear of bees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2022
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: ""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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Frank 2019Lynch, Sarah-Kate.
Summary: "In the vein of Amelie and Chocolat, Sarah-Kate Lynch's The wedding bees is a ... novel about finding new love, letting go of the past, and the magic of rooftop honey in New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lynch 2013Povolo, Theresa
Summary: Its All About The Honeybees is a picture book that introduces early readers to the wonders of the honeybee. Herman is a beekeeper who acts like his honeybees. Does he act too much like a honeybee though? His wife Beatrice wonders. As children get to know Herman, they also gain some basic knowledge, and appreciation for this special insect. Written and illustrated by a husband and wife who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bud and May Publishing 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POV (basket)High, Linda Oatman.
Summary: A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in Spring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline House/Boyds Mills Press 1998