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The secret life of bees

The secret life of bees

Book On CD 2001

Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devestating memory -- the day her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted black woman, Rosaleen, who acts as her "stand-in mother." When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily knows it's time to spring them both free. When they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily enters a secret wo...