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Book cover for "The thing about bees".
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Lexile measure:
470L
Language:
English
Description:
A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat.
Book cover for "The Thing About Bees".
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Publisher:
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
An exploration of the importance of bees in our world is offered through the author's lyrical observations to his young sons, often with analogies between the insects and children, and always beautifully presented with unconditional love for them both.
Book cover for "Do bees poop?".
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Publisher:
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Lexile measure:
520L
Language:
English
Description:
"Humorous text and characters teach kids all about living and nonliving things"--
Book cover for "Do Bees Make Butter?".
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Publisher:
Capstone
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Introduces a number of different animals and what they produce. Different food and products created by animals are shown.
Book cover for "The secret life of bees".
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with...
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Language:
English
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"Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself - she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl's foot. With this lie, and chance encounter Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged life of Jay and Violet Lockhart. The...
Book cover for "Delusion in death".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method.
Book cover for "Grit".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...
Book cover for "A merry little meet cute".
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Publisher:
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t ask for more. But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee’s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction. Forced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier...
Book cover for "Where the watermelons grow".
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Lexile measure:
1020L
Language:
English
Description:
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
Book cover for "Merci Suárez changes gears".
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Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy.
Book cover for "Hour of the bees".
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
Description:
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Book cover for "The second summer of the sisterhood".
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Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Description:
With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer. Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once. Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making the unexplainable silence that follows his visit even more painful. Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man....
Book cover for "In the middle of Hickory Lane".
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
From the USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe comes Heather Webber's next charming novel, In the Middle of Hickory Lane! Emme Wynn has wanted nothing more her whole life than to feel like part of a family. Having grown up on the run with her con artist mother, she's been shuffled from town to town, drawn into bad situations, and has learned some unsavory habits that she's tried hard to overcome. When her estranged grandmother...
Book cover for "Ready for anything".
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Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 520L
Language:
English
Description:
Raccoon is nervous about all of the things that could spoil a picnic, from bees to dragons, until Duck convinces him that surprises can be fun.
Book cover for "Own it".
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Language:
English
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"Sallie Krawcheck has had it with advice implying that if women simply leaned in a little farther, played the game a little better, and demanded just a few more seats at the table--i.e. acted a little more like MEN--they could finally break through that glass ceiling. Yet this is a contest rigged to lose. A better strategy is to embrace and invest in the unique traits that make women better positioned to lead and succeed: broader perspective, greater...
Book cover for "Handy farm devices and how to make them".
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Language:
English
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A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a well, how to stake out stock, bee keeping, how to transplant trees, how to...
Book cover for "Saving Lucas Biggs".
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Pub. Date:
2014
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Description:
"When thirteen-year-old Margaret's father is sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, she knows the only way to save him is to use the forbidden family power of time travel"--
Book cover for "A book of bees".
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Language:
English
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Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons,...
Book cover for "Regrets only".
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Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Description:
"Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old daughter, Izzy, in her hometown of Piermont, Connecticut: land...