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Author
Series
Amish of Bee County volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Lantz hopes to leave her new home in Texas as soon as she can, until she gets to know Phineas King, a beekeeper's son with a face disfigured in an accident, who is struggling to rediscover his faith in God.
Author
Series
Exploring our community volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gentle and engaging look at honeybees and how they live in urban spaces. In this sixth book in the Exploring Our Community series, the five friends help their neighbor look after his backyard beehive. Along the way, they learn about how bees feed and pollinate; how bees build their hive; what happens inside a bee colony; how and why some bee populations are currently at risk; and much, much more. The book concludes with fun ideas for how to attract...
43) Growing cities
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities goes coast to coast to tell the stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday city-dwellers who are challenging the way this country feeds itself. From those growing in backyards to make ends meet to educators teaching kids to eat healthier, viewers find that urban farming is about much more than simply good food.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family's livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystne XL pipeline in front of the White House. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and tropical storms scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives with her father, a harsh man with whom no love is lost, on...
47) The Honeybee Man
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
Author
Publisher
Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A nature-writing memoir by a woman in her thirties in the UK settling into a new job and home about her year of keeping bees that includes the history of beekeeping and the ancient relationship between keeper and bee.
49) The pollinators
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts, and vegetables that get eaten.
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