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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)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
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1st in the series. Set in 1914, a young woman, Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper. His name is Sherlock Holmes, and he sees a fellow intellect in 15-year-old Mary, so takes her as his apprentice. Together, they tackle crimes and investigations, as Sherlock becomes Mary's mentor and friend.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock HolmesA Monstrous Regiment of Women: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
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2nd in the series. Mary Russell has metamorphosed from able apprentice to skilled detective. After a tedious visit from relatives, Mary is looking for respite in London when she comes across a friend from Oxford. When a series of murders claims members of the New Temple of God sect’s wealthy young female volunteers, Mary, with Holmes in the background, starts to investigate.
A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
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3rd in the series. August, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with an exquisite inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. Miss Ruskin soon dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary prove was murder.
The Moor: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)The Moor: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
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4th in the series. Rumours of a "devil dog" lead Sherlock Holmes and his wife, Mary Russell, back to the scene of one of his most celebrated cases. And when the body of miner Josiah Gorton is found surrounded by paw prints, it looks as if the "Hound of the Baskervilles" has returned to haunt Dartmoor once more.
O Jerusalem (Mary Russell Novels)O Jerusalem (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
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5th in the series. At the end of 1918, forced to flee England, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. A rash of murders there seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew, Moslem and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred.
Justice Hall (Mary Russell Novels)Justice Hall (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
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6th in the series. Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, returned to England upon his brother's death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall's expected heir.
The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock HolmesThe Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
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7th in the series. It's January 2, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleeting - for a visit with Holmes's gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package.
Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels)Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
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8th in the series. After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her family's old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior-a point not lost on Holmes.
The Language of Bees: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock HolmesThe Language of Bees: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
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9th in the series. In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband’s storied past—a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting…this time fatally.
The God of the Hive: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock HolmesThe God of the Hive: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
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10th in the series. Release Date April 27, 2010.
The BeekeeperThe Beekeeper by Keith Henderson
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Set in the 1960s. Twenty year old Walter Taylor flees his suburban home in search of freedom and adventure. He stumbles into a chaotic bee farm populated by a bohemian, European-born artist and his mistresses.
The Beekeeper: A Love Story That Transcends TimeThe Beekeeper: A Love Story That Transcends Time by Owl Woman
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When the lovely Ana meets the eccentric professor and his wife Maud, her life will change forever. At a remote cottage on the Michigan prairie she is thrown into a virtual fairyland of myth and magic. Before long the Green Man who rules over the Nature world will set her heart aflame.
The Beekeeper's PupilThe Beekeeper's Pupil by Sara George
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In 1785, Francois Huber, a blind gentleman living outside Geneva, hires young Francois Burnens as his manservant. That position expands with Huber's interest in the lives of bees.
ChaliceChalice by Robin McKinley
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Humble beekeeper Mirasol has been chosen to take on the key ceremonial role of Chalice, the woman charged with maintaining the province's well-being by communicating with the (sentient) land. In the best McKinley fashion, the fantasy realm is evoked in thorough and telling detail, with the energy of the narrative lending excitement to descriptions of even the most stylized rituals.
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
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An 89 year old recluse beekeeper in Sussex Downs is asked by the police to solve a case involving a talkative parrot and a mute boy. This 160 page novella first appeared in the 2003 Paris Review.
Four WallsFour Walls by Vangelis Hatziyannidis
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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 Honey ThiefThe Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
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Troublesome thief eleven year old Eva meets a reclusive old beekeeper. The two make an unlikely pair.
The Keeper of the Bees (Library of Indiana Classics)The Keeper of the Bees (Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter
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A wounded World War I veteran heals his wounds and his heart when he masters beekeeping.
McKay's Bees: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)McKay's Bees: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction) by Thomas McMahon
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Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees--undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.
Milk and Honey (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novels)Milk and Honey (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novels) by Faye Kellerman
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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.
A Recipe for Bees: A NovelA Recipe for Bees: A Novel by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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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.
The Secret Life of BeesThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
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Fourteen year old Lily runs away to three beekeeping women who once helped her mother.
The Secret Life of BeesThe Secret Life of Bees
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You can download the soundtrack from ITUNES and see the special playlists of the author and cast. Visit the official movie website for lots of background info - http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thesecretlifeofbees/
Silver May Tarnish (Witch World Chronicles)Silver May Tarnish (Witch World Chronicles) by Andre Norton
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In a land at war, Meive of Landale uses her gifts as a beekeeper and the help of her friend Lorcan to fight the people ravaging their land.
A Slight Trick of the MindA Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
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93 year old beekeeper Sherlock Holmes teaches his housekeeper's son how to care for bees while he comes to terms with an old infatuation and tries to help a man find out why his family abandoned him.
Stolen HoneyStolen Honey by Nancy Means Wright
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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.
Tin City (Mac McKenzie Mysteries)Tin City (Mac McKenzie Mysteries) by David Housewright
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It started innocently enough. An elderly beekeeper asked Mac McKenzie to find out why his bees were suddenly dying. Asking questions is no big deal for Mac, but it looks like the beekeeper’s neighbor does not like nosy people. The neighbor makes some nasty threats, then disappears leaving behind a dead body and an angry Mac Mckenzie.
Ulee's GoldUlee's Gold
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Oscar-nominee Peter Fonda gives a quiet and powerful performance as a beekeeper swarmed by family problems.
Vincent the Beeman: A fantasy novel for all agesVincent the Beeman: A fantasy novel for all ages by Geoffrey Foster
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In England during the Middle Ages, a young man discovers his magical powers during many adventures, and discovers the magic of beekeeping.
Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 HoneybeesBeeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees by Rosanne Daryl Thomas
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Bestselling novelist Rosanne Daryl Thomas and her seven-year-old daughter move to a small New England town and discover beekeeping.
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep ThemA Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell
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In her widely acclaimed A Country Year, Hubbell wrote about living on her 100-acre honey-producing farm in the Ozarks. Here she introduces us to the tasks and pleasures of beekeeping. Hubbell manages 300 hives, some on her own farm, others scattered about the countryside on land she rents for one gallon of honey a year.
A Cosmos in my Kitchen: The Journal of a BeekeeperA Cosmos in my Kitchen: The Journal of a Beekeeper by Sandra Silver
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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.
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and UsThe Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson
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The Hive is beautifully illustrated and filled with all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "societies", and how we view bees as a miniature universe into itself.
Honeybee: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental BeekeeperHoneybee: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese
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C. Marina Marchese is the founder and owner of Red Bee Honey, purveyors of honey and honey related products. She has been keeping bees for more than nine years. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, she is also an award-winning illustrator and designer.
A Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and HomeA Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and Home by Allison Wallace
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When she's talking bees, beekeeper and professor Wallace rolls right along, her affection for the little buzzers quite apparent. In a chatty voice, she reflects on all things bee, from how their senses work to what the tendency to swarm is all about (to establish a new hive in response to overpopulation in the first hive) and how each bee serves the hive through various stages of life.
Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and HumankindLetters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind by Stephen Buchmann
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From the seasons of the hive to the history, properties, and diversity of honey, Buchmann brings us into the confidence of the bees.
Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and MenQueen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood
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Continuously in print since 1988, those who enjoy a good read about bees will love this little gem. Mr. Longgood’s bee fever is definitely contagious.
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the WorldRobbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
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The author buys her first jar of harvested honey and becomes addicted. A Florida beekeeper mentors her search thru bee and honey history.
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the HoneybeeSweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
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In colorful, mellifluous language that delights and excites on every page, Hattie Ellis interweaves social history, popular science, and traveler's tales into a buzzing chronological narrative.
Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural WorldWolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World by Susan Brind Morrow
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In this lyrical memoir, Morrow muses on New York State's Finger Lake region, where she grew up. Her ruminations are loosely based on her memories of two men—one a trapper, the other a beekeeper—whose ability to connect with nature had a profound influence on the way she views the world.