Orlagh Cassidy
1) The bees
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Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying...
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It is 1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother Felix and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells undergoes the radical psychiatric treatment of electroshock therapy to alleviate her suffocating depression. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present--transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras.