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Author:

Jukes, Helen

Title:

A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees / Helen Jukes.

Publisher:

Center Point Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

302 pages (lg. print) ; 23 cm

Summary:

Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses <U+2013> disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if she<U+2019>s to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees <U+2013> according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck <U+2013> and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to <U+2018>keep<U+2019> wild creatures? In learning about the bees, what can she learn of herself? And can travelling inside the hive free her outside it?

ISBN:

1643586262 : LIB
9781643586267 : LIB

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)