Bookworks Aptos

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Serving our community since 1976, BOOKWORKS is an independent, locally owned, general interest bookstore. Located conveniently in Aptos, Californiaon Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County, BOOKWORKS is a full-service store, staffed by booksellers who are passionate about books and love to share their insights and recommendations with other readers. We take pride in maintaining an exceptional inventory of new books for all interests, tastes, and ages. We are known for our speedy search and ordering services for titles that we do not normally carry. In addition to books, we have a selection of magazines, distinctive greeting cards, calendars, plush toys, Putumayo World Music CDs, a unique line of geode bookends, and other reading accessories. BOOKWORKS is a member of the American Booksellers Association,the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, and Think Local First Santa Cruz County. Thanks for visiting. We look forward to serving you soon--either on line or in person.

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The Language of Bees
by King, Laurie R.
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve--the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmes's beloved hives.
But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husband's past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged with--and exonerated from--murder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.
When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, she'll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the Cafe Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young woman's past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she's ever faced--a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.