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Bee culture Connecticut History Beekeepers Connecticut Biography Cookery (Honey) Forced marriage United States Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Honeybee Breeding Connecticut Anecdotes Jeffs, Warren 1955- Marchese, C. Marina Mormon fundamentalism United States Mormons United States BiographyLeapman, Michael
Summary: By the early eighteenth century, botanists were inching toward the shocking truth that plants had male and female organs and reproduced sexually. The first person to realize the practical implications of this was Thomas Fairchild, a London nurseyman, and celebrated author of The City Gardener. Leapman, a brilliant horticultural writer, has unearthed fascinating and colorful detail about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9152 FAIRCHILD, THOMAS LEARobinson, Holly
Summary: Robinson tells the warm and comic story of her father's peculiar obsession as a gerbil farmer, and of her own life growing up as one of the "employees" in his oddly thriving, sometimes exasperating, often humorous venture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.935 ROBINSON, D.G ROBSingular, Stephen.
Summary: As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 SINMarchese, C. Marina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009