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OCTC's Common Reading Selection "The Music of Bees" by Eileen Garvin

Author Scheduled to Visit on March 28

by Katie Powers

Owensboro, KY (01/24/2023) — Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is continuing the campus wide Common Reading program and invites the community to participate in all the related events. The book for the Spring 2023 semester is The Music of Bees, a novel by Eileen Garvin. This selection was inspired by the new addition of beehives located at OCTC's Nature Center.

For this semester's Common Reading, the following themes are being explored: bees and how their role as pollinators play a part in the ecosystem and our environment, agriculture and the aide bees provide to farming, disability awareness and acceptance, "found families," and grief and mental health concerns.

The author is scheduled to be on campus Tuesday, March 28, 2023, for a book reading and presentation at 12:30 p.m. in Blandford Lecture Hall in the Humanities building on OCTC's Main Campus; the event is open to the public and will be livestreamed on Facebook. The college reserves the option to adjust events based on current health protocols. All events related to the Common Reading will be posted at facebook.com/octccommonread and are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact kaye.brown@kctcs.edu.

About the Author

Author and Master Beekeeper, Eileen Garvin was born and raised in eastern part of the state of Washington. Garvin is a writer of fiction, memoir, personal essay, and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Music of Bees, is a national bestseller and is available everywhere books are sold. The Music of Bees takes place in Oregon, where Garvin currently resides sharing her home with her husband, a fearless cat, a passionate Baja mutt, four chickens, and about one hundred and fifty thousand honeybees.

The Music of Bees was named a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Good Housekeeping Book Club pick, a People Magazine Best New Book, an IndieNext Anticipated Book of 2021 by BookRiot, Bookish, Nerd Daily, The Tempest, Midwestness, and others.

Garvin's memoir, How to Be a Sister, was named an Indie Next by IndieBound and was chosen as a Target Book of the Month and a Kindle Book of the Month. How to Be a Sister was released in audiobook form in September, 2022.

Her essays have appeared with Medium, The Oregonian, PsychologyToday.com, and Creative Non-Fiction Magazine.

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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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