The secret life of bees
Record details
- ISBN: 0670894605 :
- ISBN: 9780670032372
- ISBN: 0670032379
- ISBN: 9780965331920 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 096533192X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780670894604 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0670894605 (acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
xii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2002.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Set in South Carolina in 1964, [this book] tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love--a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.-Back cover. |
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Subject: | South Carolina Fiction Sisters Fiction Beekeepers Fiction Race relations Fiction Maternal deprivation Fiction African American women Fiction Teenage girls Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
Topic Heading: | EHS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Terryville High School 2010 9th & 10th Grade Summer Reading List THS 2009 Grade 9 Summer Reading JBHS Tenth Grade Summer Reading. 09holycross12h/ap |
Available copies
- 37 of 38 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 38 total copies.
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Babcock Library - Ashford | F Kid (Text) | 33110144164512 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Kid (Text) | 33160140213078 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F KIDD (Text) | 34030092341103 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Chester Public Library | KID (Text) | 33210000133179 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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