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"Designed to educate everyone from bee and honey enthusiasts to amateur gardeners and agricultural professionals, Embry's captivating profiles of just a few of the myriad native bee species and the dedicated individuals and institutions committed to their survival are as entertaining as they are enlightening.-- ""Booklist"" ""A very compelling book."" -- "" Appalachian Voices"" ""Clear and crisp...A flight path through overwhelming amounts of information."" -- ""New York TImes Book Review"" ""Embry--an independent scholar--shares her enthusiasm and concerns for these lesser-known but important insect pollinators...Embry writes in an easygoing, conversational style."" -- ""Choice (starred review)"" ""Embry's writing is fresh and funny, and her enthusiasm for her subject contagious."" -- "" Maine Organic Farm & Gardener"" ""Guides us through the world of overlooked and obscure bee species that fill the air around us: bumblebees, masons, alkali, leaf cutters, diggers, miners, and many more."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"""

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Paige Embry has a BS in geology from Duke University and an MS in geology from the University of Montana. She has worked as an environmental consultant, taught horticulture and geology classes, and run a garden design and coaching business. She has written articles for Horticulture, the American Gardener and other magazines. She lives in Seattle, WA. Emily Durante has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years and is also an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook director. She has been acting since the age of seven and has performed in a number of stage productions at the professional, collegiate, and regional levels.

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