 Hi, my name is Julia Glassman. I'm a librarian at Powell, and my staff pick is The Bees by Lailene Paul. So The Bees is a novel about a literal beehive. So these are actual bees who are living and doing their bee thing. And the story centers on a bee named Flora717, who's a sanitation worker. So she starts off in the lowest cast of the beehives, like the lowest of the low, but then she starts to rise through the ranks. So she's able to feed newborns in the nursery, and then she's able to go forage for pollen and nectar with all the forager bees. But eventually, she starts to rise so high that she wants to become a mother, which is a problem because only the queen is allowed to lay eggs. So once she decides that she wants to become a mom, then she starts to make a lot of enemies. So the reason I love this book is that the characters are just their bees, but they're just really real. So you really sympathize with them. You really start to care about them. When I first picked up this book, I thought it was just going to be a fun romp. I thought, like, oh, a novel about bees. That'll be a nice thing to read on the beach or something. But by the end, I was actually crying because I was so invested in Flora717 and all the other characters. So the bees by Lailene Paul. Be sure to check it out.