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010      2020952823 
020    9781643588636|q(large print)|q(hardback : alkaline paper) 
020    164358863X|q(large print)|q(hardback : alkaline paper) 
035    (OCoLC)1232227368 
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100 1  Joyce, Rachel,|eauthor. 
245 10 Miss Benson's beetle :|ba novel /|cRachel Joyce. 
250    Large print edition. 
264  1 Thorndike, Maine :|bCenter Point Large Print,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    511 pages (large print) :|billustration, map ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
340    |nlarge print|2rdafs 
500    Includes discussion questions. 
500    Regular print version previously published by: Dial Press.
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is
       still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a 
       schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life,
       surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking 
       point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out 
       on an expedition to the other side of the world in search 
       of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not 
       exist - the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she 
       advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman 
       she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-
       loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-
       pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. 
       But together these two British women find themselves drawn
       into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations
       and delivers something neither of them expected to find: 
       the transformative power of friendship."--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Hylurgus ligniperda|vFiction. 
650  0 Women naturalists|vFiction. 
650  0 Women explorers|vFiction. 
650  0 Paid companions (Household employees)|vFiction. 
650  0 Beetles|vFiction. 
650  0 Female friendship|vFiction. 
650  0 Cryptozoology|vFiction. 
650  0 British|zNew Caledonia|vFiction. 
650  0 Nineteen fifties|vFiction. 
650  0 Large type books. 
650  7 Beetles.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00829832 
650  7 British.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00839044 
650  7 Cryptozoology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00884605 
650  7 Female friendship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00922609 
650  7 Large type books.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00992678 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007815 
650  7 Nineteen fifties.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01037791 
650  7 Paid companions (Household employees)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01938443 
650  7 Women explorers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177666 
650  7 Women naturalists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178193 
651  0 Great Britain|xSocial life and customs|y20th century
       |vFiction. 
651  0 New Caledonia|vFiction. 
651  7 Great Britain.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204623 
651  7 New Caledonia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01212756 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01726640 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
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