I forgot to check in January, but this month's Univ. of Chicago Press free monthly book is
McKay’s Bees: A Novel
Thomas McMahon. Expires 2/28
Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.