I am not even sure where to start. Nature is full of robbers for one thing. My partner in crime (Rachael) and I were given a huge bag of honeycomb from our friend that we have been getting the bee swarms from. Yesterday we decided to start the process of cleaning it to get the wax to make candles and lip balm. Everything was going pretty good. We put the dirty comb in cheesecloth and dipped them into very hot water, working the wax out. It was a pleasant cool day, so we decided to put the pots of melted wax and hot water out on the back deck to cool and separate, and we went to lunch. When we came back an hour later and we heard the loudest hum coming from the back deck. Thousands of bees had found our cooling pots of wax and decided they wanted it…ALL! And where do you think my bee suit was? Yup, under the table that was surrounded by grabby bees. Thankfully Rachael had her suit so she was able get the pots and clear the bees away. After much drama we brought everything inside and set the cooled wax out to dry on paper towels. Then came the ants.
The Ice Maiden
by B.D. Smith
Genre: Mystery
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A serial killer is abducting, torturing, and murdering young women in a small community in central Maine. Seeming to select his victims at random, he acts out the rituals of the Spanish Inquisition before committing their bodies to the sacred waters of nearby Sebec Lake. Anne Quinn, an investigator for the Piscataquis County sheriff’s office, and Detective Douglas Bateman with the Major Crimes Unit of the Maine State Police join forces in tracking him down. Hiding in plain sight, the killer is clearly from the local community and plays a deadly “catch me if you can” game with Quinn and Bateman. He seems determined to humiliate them and demonstrate his superior intellect, leading them to suspect that perhaps there is a deeper motive and purpose behind his string of murders.
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Driven to Date (Better Date than Never Series Book 7)
by Susan Hatler
Genre: Romance | Contemporary Fiction
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Career-driven attorney, Jill Parnell, has worked long and hard to become a partner at Corbett, Gray, & Shaw. When the coveted position is given to the boss’s nephew, she does what any intelligent employee would do — attends a colleague’s wedding and schmoozes a high-powered partner at another law firm.
Her potential new boss has only one condition for her, that she demonstrate a personal life that will support a thriving career. Pretending to have a boyfriend is outside Jill’s comfort zone, but she invites the best man to act the part and Ryan is all-too eager to play her significant other. Sparks fly between them, but she reminds herself she’s only driven to date to get back on the partner track.
When Jill discovers Ryan is the lawyer who stole her promotion, her charade threatens to implode. But breaking off their pretend relationship could cost her the job of her dreams. And the more she gets to know Ryan, the more she’s tempted to tame the bad boy, and make him her own.
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Project Nemesis (A Kaiju Thriller) (Nemesis Saga Book 1)
by Jeremy Robinson
Genre: Science Fiction | Action & Adventure | Horror
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Jon Hudson, lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center-P, thinks his job is a joke. While other Fusion Centers focus on thwarting terrorist activity, Hudson’s division is tasked with handling paranormal threats to national security, of which there have been zero during his years at the DHS. When yet another Sasquatch sighting leads to a research facility disguised as an abandoned Nike missile site in the back woods of Maine, Hudson’s job becomes deadly serious.
Hudson and the local Sheriff, Ashley Collins, suddenly find themselves on the run from a ruthless ex-Special Forces security team, but the human threat is short-lived as something very much not-human destroys the facility and heads for civilization, leaving only a single clue behind — a name scrawled in blood: Nemesis. Working with his team at Fusion Center-P, Sheriff Collins and a surly helicopter pilot named Woodstock, Hudson pursues the creature known as Nemesis, attempts to uncover the corporate secrets behind its creation and accidental release and tries to comprehend why several clues lead to a murdered little girl named Maigo.
But as the body-count explodes, along with the monster’s size, it quickly becomes clear that nothing short of a full military response can slow Nemesis’s progress. Coordinating with every branch of the U.S. military, Hudson simultaneously searches for clues about Nemesis’s origins and motivations, and leads the counterattack that will hopefully stop the monster before it reaches Boston and its one million residents.
Witness the birth of a legend as Jeremy Robinson, bestselling author of SecondWorld and Ragnarok, combines the pacing of Matthew Reilly with the mystery of James Rollins and creates the first iconic American Kaiju* story since King Kong. Includes original creature designs by legendary Godzilla artist, Matt Frank.
*Kaiju is Japanese for “strange beast.” The genre includes classic monsters such as Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah.
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True Colors and Other Short Stories
by Michelle D. Argyle
Genre: Literary Fiction | Short Stories
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In this short story collection, Michelle Davidson Argyle shares sixteen of her literary pieces written during 1999 – 2011. In the title story, “True Colors,” the main character fights her vibrant personality against the true darkness lurking within her. The story builds until a row of six dead birds stop her in her tracks. In the opening story, “Thread,” (also published in the 2011 collection, Stories for Sendai), a married couple’s reaction to the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, 2011 reveals their own earth-shattering issues and what must be done to solve them. The lizard on the cover represents the story, “The Threshold,” about a young boy with an intense physical attraction to a girl he’s not supposed to touch. True Colors is a collection of quiet stories exploring the hidden, but often overlooked colors we try to hide every day. Sometimes they shouldn’t be hidden at all.
Also included are several poems and one prose poem picked as the staff choice award in New Mexico’s Literary journal, Scribendi (2002).
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Death’s Head: A Soldier With Richard the Lionheart
by Robert Broomall
Genre: War | Historical Fiction
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In the year 1191, a monk named Roger dreams of becoming a knight and helping to free Jerusalem from Saladin and the Saracens – and of maybe, just maybe, finding the father who abandoned him as a baby. When he is unjustly accused of murder, Roger flees for his life and joins the crusade of Richard the Lionheart.
In the Holy Land, Roger is introduced to the grim realities of war. He thrives, though, and rises through the ranks to become commander of a company known as the Death’s heads. He loses one love and finds another, and he suffers a crisis of faith as he watches the huge crusading army being destroyed by disease and famine while the dream of freeing Jerusalem seems as far away as ever.
And his other dream, the one about finding his father, seems as far away as ever, too — or is it?
“Death’s Head” illuminates a little-known but significant moment in history, one whose outcome resonates through the years to the present day. It is a story of war and love and the faith that enables ordinary men to perform extraordinary deeds.
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