http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/bees?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "bees" on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/Robbing-Bees-Biography-Honey-Seduced/dp/0743250214/sr=1-2/qid=1168327240/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-9352662-8720707?ie=UTF8&s=books Holley Bishop loves bees. No, more than that: she idolizes them. She marvels at their native abilities and the momentous role these misunderstood and unjustly feared creatures have played in the development of human history. And with her book, Robbing the Bees, she succeeds in making the reader love bees, too. Take this nifty bit of information, one of countless fascinating factoids offered by Bishop in her celebration of all things bee-related: "Because of bees' starring role in the drama of pollination, we humans are indebted to them, directly and indirectly, for a third of our food supply. Visiting bees are required for the commercial production of more than a hundred of our most important crops including alfalfa, garlic, apples, broccoli, Brussels sprou Lifestyle > Gifts narky Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:27:32 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Bees-Monk-Kidd/dp/0142001740/sr=1-1/qid=1168327240/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9352662-8720707?ie=UTF8&s=books In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. Lifestyle > Gifts narky Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:25:17 GMT