London: Headline Book Publishing. Good+. 2008. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, light shelf wear with some cover peel, slightly cocked spine, light grime to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Second printing of Headline Review special movie tie-in paperback edition, 2008. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork of film poster by 20th Century Fox. ; 384 pages; Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. Now at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. .

Synopsis

The Secret Life of Bees is a 2002 historical novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. It received much critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2008 film by Gina Prince-Bythewood starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 36577
Title: The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint; Second Printing
ISBN 10: 0755349806
ISBN 13: 9780755349807
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: Mass Market PB
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Mass Market: Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Movie tie-in: an edition of a book which is produced in conjunction with a movie which is usually based on the book, often with a cover image...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
PB: ...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.