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1) Chalice
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A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of fire.
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"From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way. Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it's not just our honey supply that's at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops is essential to human survival. But even in industrial apiaries, bees are in distress, hiving in synthetic and hostile environments. Enter idle beekeeping: the grassroots,...
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Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May. Everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May...
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Down South Café mystery volume 3
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1 audio disc (approximately 420 min.) : digital, stereo, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this delectable comfort-food mystery, a sweet Southern cafe owner tastes the sharp sting of suspicion after the body of a local beekeeper is found outside her cafe.
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"Honeybee rescuer Mr. Nelson relocates a colony of 35,000 bees from Mr. Connery's barn back to a hive"--
Bzzzz! When Mr. Connery hears a sound coming from his old barn, he discovers that a colony of honeybees has moved in. The bees have already made honeycomb. Can Mr. Nelson, a bee rescuer, move them to a new, safer location? Burns explains the steps involved in relocating a hive, and the importance of rescuing bee colonies rather than exterminating...
8) Honeyland
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice"--Container.
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Tea shop mystery volume 26
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"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...
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xvi, 295 pages ; 22 cm
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"Andrew Coté has one of the most intriguing, challenging, and unique jobs in New York City -- maintaining millions of honey bees atop some of the city's most iconic buildings. His apiaries have crowned the Waldorf Astoria and the Museum of Modern Art; reside on the North Lawn of the United Nations; reign above stores, hotels, restaurants, schools, churches, and synagogues; and are situated in community gardens, and even cemeteries, throughout the...
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Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank...
13) We need bees
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"Explores the roles of bees in ecosystems, including bees' importance to ecosystems, threats to bee populations, and conservation efforts. Features sidebars, two infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature"--
14) Flight patterns
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viii, 401 pages ; 24 cm
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Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china-- especially Limoges-- requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit. It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida. There is solace seeing her grandfather still toiling away in his apiary, but encountering her estranged mother and sister...
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Exploring our community volume 6
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"A gentle and engaging look at honeybees and how they live in urban spaces. In this sixth book in the Exploring Our Community series, the five friends help their neighbor look after his backyard beehive. Along the way, they learn about how bees feed and pollinate; how bees build their hive; what happens inside a bee colony; how and why some bee populations are currently at risk; and much, much more. The book concludes with fun ideas for how to attract...
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"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
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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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x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Bees are essential for human survival--one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen bees; we establish collectives and even have communities that share a hive-mind. In Buzz, authors Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut convincingly argue that the power of bees goes beyond...
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