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If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems

10 best books like If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems (James P. Lenfestey): Brown Girl Dreaming, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Reticence, Old Bones, Lanny, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Once More We Saw Stars, A Circle of Quiet, The October Man, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Brown Girl Dreaming
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399252517
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and...
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
AuthorMax Porter
ISBN0571323766
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.

In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer,...
Reticence
AuthorGail Carriger
ISBN0316433918
Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.

Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her...
Old Bones
AuthorDouglas Preston
ISBN1538747227
The first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child blends the legend of the Donner party with a riveting suspense tale, taking the dynamic duo's work to new heights.

Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations...
Lanny
AuthorMax Porter
ISBN0571340288
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
AuthorJonathan Safran Foer
ISBN0374280002
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
Once More We Saw Stars
AuthorJayson Greene
ISBN1524733539
Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into...
A Circle of Quiet
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0062545035
NOW AVAILABLE FOR KINDLE / E-BOOK

I’d be surprised if the majority of readers have not read “A Wrinkle in Time.” It is undoubtedly her most loved book, although the road to a publisher was a rather long journey. Nevertheless, she did, and the rest is her story, part of which is contained...
The October Man
AuthorBen Aaronovitch
ISBN1473224314
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.

Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.

Enter...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
AuthorDavid Epstein
ISBN0735214484
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0679765948
This is probably my favorite poem from the book. Just beautiful.



On guard

I want you for my bodyguard,
to curl round each other like two socks
matched and balled in a drawer.

I want you to warm my backside,
two S's snaked curve to curve
in the down burrow...
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--And How to Fix It
AuthorNatalie Wexler
ISBN0735213550
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.

It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack...
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