It was really heartbreaking when my partner in crime and I lost the last bee colony that we had acquired. After a bit of inspection, it looks like the queen had died at some point, so there was no new brood. But now we can turn that frown upside down (yup, I said that) because our bee friend, just picked up a super from me yesterday and said he was going to fill it full of bees, and a queen of course. YAY! More bees! We are back in action. Now I am getting really anxious for Spring. I have bees on the way, flowers to plant and chickens to make a play pen for. This cold weather is just holding me back.
The Promotion
by Nan Dale
Genre: Business & Money | Nonfiction | Suspense
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Like many heavy hitters on Wall Street, John is an alpha male with good looks, intellect and the tenacity to run with the big dogs. His wife, Ruth, a former investment banker now turned Stay-At Home Mom, is every bit the perfect partner.
John is steps away from achieving his lifelong dream of becoming a partner at a prestigious investment firm in New York City. When unanticipated events over the weekend put his promotion in jeopardy, he starts to question who is obstructing his career and why?
As life gets increasingly complicated, how far will John go to achieve his end and will he sacrifice his own values and those of his family to fulfill a lifelong dream?
If you liked thrillers and mysteries like the Dead Key and suspense books, that will keep you riveted, then this is the book for you.
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Broken: The Discordant Earth Series Book One
by Melony Paradise
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Romance
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A baby is precious, even a half-alien one, and Alyssa Rose will do anything to protect hers.
Twenty-two-year-old Alyssa had an idyllic childhood, growing up among the aliens that saved Earth from a third world war. As assistant to Kayn, Commander of the Szu’Kara, she dreams of a long, fulfilling career and a future of eternal bliss. Dating the gorgeous commander is just the cherry on top of her perfect life.
But a visit to the clinic has Alyssa’s world spinning when she finds out she’s pregnant, which shouldn’t be possible — they’re different species. Commander Kayn couldn’t be prouder, but Alyssa has her doubts, especially when things start to change between them.
When tragedy strikes her family, Alyssa realizes things aren’t what they seem, and her dreams are slipping through her fingers. Torn between what’s real and what’s not, she struggles to understand the secrets that lie beneath the surface. She just never imagined she would find her only chance to uncover the truth through Sebastian, an intensely attractive rebel leader.
Alyssa must make her choice: cling to the remnants of her life with Kayn, or side with the rebels… and Sebastian.
Don’t miss Broken, the first in the awesome new Discordant Earth Sci-Fi romance series by Melony Paradise.
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Flea Market Fatal: Missy DeMeanor Cozy Mystery #1 (Missy DeMeanor Cozy Mysteries)
by Brianna Bates
Genre: Mystery | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction
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WHEN YOUR EX ARRESTS YOUR MOM FOR MURDER, YOU…
(A) SET UP A GoFundMe FOR BAIL
(B) BUST HER OUT
(C) INVEST IN A MAGNIFYING GLASS… (ANSWER BELOW)
Missy DeMeanor, voluptuous craft queen extraordinaire, is big and beautiful, disciplined, ambitious, hard-working, resourceful, creative, and – yes, suspected of murder.
Not even a sighting of Missy’s hot ex-boyfriend at the bookstore where she works can deter her from her flea market quest. It’s a perfect September Saturday for garage sale shopping in tiny Grove City, Pennsylvania — blue skies, seventy-five degrees – and Missy DeMeanor is set on scoring that cabinet she’s had her eye on. Driving a hard bargain is one thing, but now the seller is dead – and the so-handsome investigating office says it’s murder!
Who should the investigating officer turn out to be but Tyler Brock, the boy Missy dated in high school, recently returned to Grove City after a decade in Philadelphia, with an undetermined marital status. And he’s acting like he still has feelings for her – when he’s not asking pointed questions and scribbling in his notebook. Surely Tyler doesn’t think she’s a killer!
But the whole town seems in on family secrets Missy’s just learning that could be a strong motive – secrets about a business deal gone bad between the murdered man and Missy’s own father, and about a violent incident involving her mother, whom even Tyler acknowledges to be “the sweetest woman on earth.” Even worse than being suspected of murder? Missy’s mother being suspected of murder. Things have gotten so out of hand that Missy deduces her friend Noreen, the avid mystery reader, is right: it’s up to Missy to find the killer! And like that: a talented amateur sleuth is born.
Since Missy works in a bookstore, devotees of Carolyn Hart’s Death on Demand series will think they’ve come home again. Animal lovers will fall for her dog Cody, and fans of women sleuths, especially light, delicious cozies you can read fast, with no cliffhangers, on-the-page violence or graphic scenes will eat this series up. If you like Gina LaManna, Jana DeLeon, Mary Daheim, and Leighann Dobbs, give Missy a try!
EDITOR’S NOTE: In an earlier version of this book, Missy’s distress came out in a couple of unseemly expletives. She has since gotten hold of herself; this one is squeaky clean!
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Cash Cow
by Nina McGrath
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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Nannying, how hard could it be?
Simone is delighted when she lands a job as a nanny for affluent Sydney couple Trevor and Tracey King. Suddenly surrounded by wealth beyond her wildest dreams, Simone wonders how Trevor earns the enormous sums of money that fund their lavish lifestyle. It’s a far cry from her daily struggle to scrape together enough money to keep an aggressive debt collector at bay.
In the face of ever changing and increasingly bizarre demands from Tracey, Simone battles to keep the job long enough to pay off her debt. But with each passing day she becomes more and more immersed in the childrens’ lives until she can’t imagine ever saying goodbye to the special little people who have come to mean so much to her.
Cash Cow is a peek into the private lives of the rich and heinous, showing how they treat their own offspring and the hired help.
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World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End (The Second World War and D Day Book 1)
by Captivating History
Genre: Education & Teaching | History
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Explore How World War 2 Began, the Aftermath and the Events in Between
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The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected, entangling nations in a vast web of violence. It was fought on land, sea, and air, touching every inhabited continent. Over 55 million people died, some of them combatants, some civilians caught up in the violence, and some murdered by their own governments.
It was the war that unleashed the Holocaust and the atomic bomb upon the world. But it was also a war that featured acts of courage and self-sacrifice on every side.
Some of the topics covered in this book include:
• The Rising Tide
• From Poland to the Fall of France
• Britain’s Darkest Hour
• Barbarossa Unleashed
• Early Operations in Africa and the Mediterranean
• A Day Which Will Live in Infamy
• Germany’s Eastern Offensives
• Guadalcanal and the War in Asia
• Operation Torch and the Taking of North Africa
• The Tide Turns in Eastern Europe
• Advancing on Japan
• The Invasion of Italy
• From D-Day to the Bulge
• The Fall of Germany
• The Fall of Japan
• And a Great Deal More that You don’t Want to Miss out on!
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