Kidd, Sue Monk.

The secret life of bees / by Sue Monk Kidd. - London : Headline Review, 2004. - 375 p ; 20 cm.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

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Bee culture--South Carolina--Fiction.
Racism--South Carolina--Fiction.
Teenage girls--South Carolina--Fiction.
Women--South Carolina--Fiction.
Beekeeping--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Racism--South Carolina--Fiction.
Teenagers--South Carolina--Fiction.
Women--South Carolina--Fiction.

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