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The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)

by Laurie R. King

Published: 1994

Hardcover: 346 pages

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The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

by Hannah Nordhaus

Published: 2011-05-24

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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“You’llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again.” —Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of LobstersAward-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America’s foremost migratory bee...

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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (All and Everything/First)

by G. I. Gurdjieff

Published: 2006-03-23

Hardcover: 1152 pages

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Been There, Done That

by Carol Snow

Published: 2006-08-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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A laugh-out-loud, warmhearted debut about a woman reliving her youth (and not just the good parts). Plenty of thirtysomething women would be thrilled to look like a teenager. But journalist Kathy Hopkins wishes she could be taken a little more seriously-or, at the very least, order a glas...

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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education

by Murray Sperber

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, to argue that what universities offer instead of a meaningful undergraduate education is a meager and dangerous substitute: the party scene surrounding college spo...

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Bees: Nature's Little Wonders

by Candace Savage

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 144 pages

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The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Bees: Nature's Little Wonders invites readers to take a new look at creatures that are both familiar and w...

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The Beet Queen: A Novel (P.S.)

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2006-08-22

Paperback: 368 pages

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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, and seductive Karl, who la...

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Before

by Irini Spanidou

Published: 2007-07-17

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From the author of God’s Snake (“Passionate . . . a wonderful book”—Alice Munro), and Fear (“Remarkable, spare, powerful”—Grace Paley), a stunning novel, her first in seven years, that shines a light on what it means to be beautiful, and to be poss...

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Before (Heven and Hell)

by Cambria Hebert

Published: 2011-11-13

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What if your life was charmed and everything in it was perfect?.... Before.This is the story of my past. Of what things were like for me when everything was normal. Of what every teenager's life is like. Clothes. Parties. Boys and summer vacation. What's so wrong with that? I liked it. I w...

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Before and After: A Novel

by Rosellen Brown

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable BookCarolyn and Ben Reiser moved to Hyland, New Hampshire with their two children for the comforts of rural life. But when the local police chief comes looking for their seventeen-year-old son Jacob to question him about the brutal mur...