05603cam a2200769 4500 1659373020 TxAuBib 20241017120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593183946 0593183940 B08GJFWYMM Amazon d1aa8dc3-8071-42f4-9302-d84cd6afd91e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5695315 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Garvin, Eileen. The Music of Bees [Libby] : A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2021. family. Friendship. bees. family life. beach. book club. bee. novels. Coming of age. families. Honey. Inspirational. grief. beekeeping. Music. fiction books. Pacific Northwest. beach books. beach reads. summer reads. summer books. books for mom. best book club books. mom gifts. gifts for mom. gifts for women. music books. book club books. new york times best sellers. summer books for women. beach books for women. best friend gifts. friendship gifts. bee book. top book club books. bee books. novels best sellers. best books of 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1652kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A Good Morning America BUZZ PICK | A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick | IndieNext Pick | LibraryReads Pick | Recommended by People ∙ The Washington Post ∙ Woman's World ∙ NY Post ∙ BookRiot ∙ Bookish ∙ Christian Science Monitor ∙ Nerd Daily ∙ The Tempest ∙ Midwestness ∙ The Coil ∙ Read It Forward ∙ and more! “An exquisite debut that combines a moving tale of friendship with a fascinating primer on bees.”—People “This heartwarming, uplifting story will make you want to call your own friends, not to mention grab some honey.”—Good Housekeeping Three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing—and maybe even a second chance—just when they least expect it. Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days. In the grip of a panic attack, she nearly collides with Jake—a troubled, paraplegic teenager with the tallest mohawk in Hood River County—while carrying 120,000 honeybees in the back of her pickup truck. Charmed by Jake's sincere interest in her bees and seeking to rescue him from his toxic home life, Alice surprises herself by inviting Jake to her farm. And then there's Harry, a twenty-four-year-old with debilitating social anxiety who is desperate for work. When he applies to Alice's ad for part-time farm help, he's shocked to find himself hired. As an unexpected friendship blossoms among Alice, Jake, and Harry, a nefarious pesticide company moves to town, threatening the local honeybee population and illuminating deep-seated corruption in the community. The unlikely trio must unite for the sake of the bees—and in the process, they just might forge a new future for themselves. Beautifully moving, warm, and uplifting, The Music of Bees is about the power of friendship, compassion in the face of loss, and finding the courage to start over (at any age) when things don't turn out the way you expect. “A hopeful, uplifting story about the power of chosen family and newfound home and beginning again . . . but it’s the bees, with all their wonder and intricacy and intrigue, that make this story sing.” —Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is "Eileen Garvin's debut novel is uplifting, funny, bold, and inspirational. The Music of Bees sings!" —Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-10-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d1aa8dc3-8071-42f4-9302-d84cd6afd91e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d1aa8dc3-8071-42f4-9302-d84cd6afd91e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d1aa8dc3-8071-42f4-9302-d84cd6afd91e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)