Queen bee : : a Novel

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Frank, Dorothea Benton
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Frank, Dorothea Benton	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Performed by Shannon McManus.
Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she's a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted hypochondriac, might be unaware that she's quite ill, but that doesn't stop her from tormenting Holly. To escape the drama, Holly's sister Leslie married and moved away, wanting little to do with island life. Holly's escape is to submerge herself in the lives of the two young boys next door and their widowed father, Archie. Her world is upended when the more flamboyant Leslie returns and both sisters, opposites, fixate on what's happening in their neighbor's home. Is Archie really in love with that awful ice queen of a woman? If Archie marries her, what will become of his little boys? Restless Leslie is desperate for validation after her imploded marriage, squandering her favors on any and all takers. Their mother ups her game in an uproarious and theatrical downward spiral. Scandalized Holly is talking to her honey bees a mile a minute, as though they'll give her a solution to all the chaos. Maybe they will.

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Wow submitted by DL on July 6, 2019, 11:24am Some real interesting situations in this story set in the south. Laughed, got mad and was shocked while listening to this book.

Do not waste your time on this drivel! submitted by TeacherN on July 19, 2022, 11:40am A boring busybody gets way too interested in her neighbor’s business while her sister and mother have a slightly more interesting (if mostly unrealistic) time with female impersonators in Vegas. Do not waste your time on this drivel.