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A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
by Helen Jukes
A new homeowner describes her emotional and rewarding journey over the course of a year, after she was given a colony of honeybees as a gift and learned how to care for and live alongside the fascinating creatures. Illustrations.
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The glass castle : a memoir
by Jeannette Walls
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities
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The murmur of bees
by Sofía Segovia
When an old woman returns from an unexpected absence with an unusual infant and a swarm of bees, and insists on keeping both, her family adopts the child, and Simonopio grows up surrounded by bees and brings change to the entire region
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Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir
by Natasha D. Trethewey
The former U.S. poet laureate shares a personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and how this profound experience of loss shaped her as an adult and an artist
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The secret life of bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters
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My family and other animals
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
A memoir of an English boy growing up on the Greek island of Corfu recounts the author's humorous adventures as he collects all kinds of animals and insects and brings them back to the house, much to his family's dismay
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Black dove : mama, mi'jo, and me
by Ana Castillo
"In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood"
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Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
by Barbara Kingsolver
The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.
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The beekeeper of Aleppo : a novel
by Christy Lefteri
A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria, and they set off on a dangerous journey through Turkey and Greece, towards an uncertain future in England.
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The bee : a natural history
by Noah Wilson-Rich
Explores the role that bees play in the life of the planet, detailing such topics as the diversity of bee species, the human-bee relationship over time, beekeeping, identification, bee ecology and genetics, and bee health
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The enlightenment of bees
by Rachel Linden
"Rachel Linden's newest contemporary women's fiction story speaks to the universal struggle of what it means to live a meaningful life where the passions we have meet the needs of the world"
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Knowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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The return
by Nicholas Sparks
Moving into a family beekeeper cabin to recuperate from war injuries, an Afghanistan veteran falls in love with a guarded sheriff while working with a sullen local teen to investigate the mystery of a grandparent’s death. 1.5 million first printing. Tour.
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