<div>A &ldquo;delightful, witty&rdquo; memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal). Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love&mdash;of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about. Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports readers to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age. &ldquo;Once in a while there comes along a book so calm, so honest, so beautiful that even the most jaded or cynical readers have to say thank you. . . . This is such a book&rdquo; (The San Diego Union-Tribune). </div>

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A Country Year

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: &ldquo;A melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees&rsquo; lives, author Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons, this is &ldquo;a book about bees to be sure, but it is also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude; the seasonal rhythms inherent in rural living; the achievement of independence; the accommodating of oneself to nature&rdquo; (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Beautifully written and full of exquisitely rendered details, it is a tribute to Hubbell&rsquo;s wild hilltop in the Ozarks and of the joys of living a complex life in a simple place. </div>

A Book of Bees

<div>From the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of Silent Spring: An exploration of marine life that takes us into &ldquo;a truly extraordinary world&rdquo; (The Atlantic Monthly). Known for &ldquo;catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,&rdquo; nature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson is an icon of environmentalism, and her first love was the sea (Time). In this book, she explores rocky shores, sandy beaches, and coral reefs, leading us into unknown worlds to catch the evanescent beauty of a tide pool and tell the story of a grain of sand, and conveys the true complexity, beauty, and wonder of marine life, both animals and plants. With an introduction by Sue Hubbell, author of A Country Year, and illustrations by Bob Hines, The Edge of the Sea serves as both a field guide and a pleasurable, enlightening read. &ldquo;It is a truly extraordinary world which Miss Carson vividly unfolds to us . . . a world full of marvels such as the tiny periwinkle, which has 3,500 teeth, and the sea pansy, which has responded to the struggle for survival by turning itself from an individual into a colony.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlantic Monthly</div>

The Edge of the Sea

<div>A pair of memoirs about a woman starting her life over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks, from &ldquo;a latter-day Henry Thoreau with a sense of the absurd&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). Taken together, the &ldquo;steadily eloquent&rdquo; national bestseller, A Country Year, and its follow-up, A Book of Bees, a New York Times Notable Book, offer a moving and fascinating chronicle of Sue Hubbell&rsquo;s seasonal second life as a commercial beekeeper (The Washington Post). Alone on a small Missouri farm after the end of a thirty-year marriage, Hubbell found a new love&mdash;of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world, as well as in writing about her experience. In evocative vignettes, she takes readers through the seasonal cycle of her life as a beekeeper, offering exquisitely rendered details of hives, harvests, and honey, while also reflecting on deeper questions. As the New York Times wrote: &ldquo;The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life.&rdquo;</div>

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