Sherlock Holmes retires to a quiet life of beekeeping in Sussex - until he meets 15 year old American Mary Russell. A fantastic start to a wonderful mystery series.

Parsons pairs her intelligent style with a heroine to match, throws in a villain with a compellingly creepy courting ritual culled from the insect kingdom and comes up with a winning suspense thriller. When solicitor David Neale is found dead of anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, his wife Anna can't believe it. Isolated in her widowhood, Anna falls for the charms of handsome Matthew Makepiece.

Following the death of his beekeeper father, P Rodakis lives a solitary life in the old family house on a Greek island. He takes in a young fugitive woman and her daughter. Their recipe for honey draws unwanted attention from across the island and abroad, shattering their cloistered lives. Everyone wants the recipe including a group of monks who kidnap and imprison Rodakis in a cave for years.

The lead character of this story and Theroux have much in commmon. Both are escaping failed marriages and end up in Hawaii making a transformation in their lives as they write and both become beekeepers.

It's senior year and the prom is coming up. Dana, her best friend Avra, and Avra’s boyfriend Emil are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of adult life. Dana studies bees for a biology project, fascinated by their habits and their mythological imagery – but in real life, emotions can sting, and while two’s company, these three just might be a crowd.

On a summer night in LA Peter Decker finds a 2 year old in pjs on a swing set covered in bee stings, honey and blood. After placing Sally in a foster home, Decker uncovers a murder at a honey farm.

Augusta Olsen's life as a farmer's wife is stagnant until she discovers her mother's old beekeeping equipment. Suddenly life is full of possibilities.

Meive of Landale, a young beekeeper, loses her home and family to outlaws. Meive can communicate with her bees, which in the tale's most unusual twist are magical warrior bees led by the wise and powerful Bee-Goddess. Aided by the hymenopteran hivers, Lorcan and Meive set about freeing dalefolk from the tyranny and creating a haven for those returning from the war.

Ruth Willmarth (Poison Apples) faces hardships making a go of her Vermont farm but still finds time for sleuthing. In her latest adventure, she helps a beekeeping neighbor when a college student is discovered dead in her woods.

Release Date January 1, 2009.

Based on careful observation and years of experience, Michael Weiler reveals the secret life of bees. He looks at all aspects of a bee’s life and work and vividly describes their remarkable world.

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. Savage invites readers to take a new look at creatures that are both familiar and wondrously odd.

Sandy Silver paid a $1 at the County Fair and walked into a small, dark room filled with hundreds of thousands of honeybees behind glass. “I want this,” she said. Over the objections of her husband, she got a honeybee Observation Hive. Her journal burrows deep into the everyday life and death of a world most of us have never even contemplated. This is a gentle and reverent book with a sharp edge.

In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping as a starting point to discuss broader issues.

You’ll learn 75 ways to transform familiar entrees, appetizers, desserts, and drinks into something special. Start your day off right with some Honey Pancakes and warm Cinnamon Honey Donuts, and finish it with a savory plate of Honey-Glazed Chicken Breasts or Honey Spareribs. With every page and every recipe you will be inspired to make tasty, healthful honey part of your daily diet.

Honey was the first sweetener, predating sugar by hundreds of years. But as well as its noted culinary uses, honey has long been valued in folk remedies for its unique properties. This new book presents in one special volume not only a fascinating history of honey, but also a practical guide to it's uses.

This comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to bee keeping takes readers from finding their bees to getting them home, housing them, collecting honey and using their produce. The book includes a detailed look at the history of bees and beekeeping, and an extensive introduction to help readers to fully understand bees and keep them happy.

From the seasons of the hive to the history, properties, and diversity of honey, Buchmann brings us into the confidence of the bees.

The author buys her first jar of harvested honey and becomes addicted. A Florida beekeeper mentors her search thru bee and honey history.

In this lyrical memoir, Morrow muses on the memories of two men in her life - a beekeeper and a trapper.