I’m feeling the pressure to get off my tushy and get to cleaning some of the abandoned bee boxes my partner in crime and I have. We lost all of our bees over the course of a year. That was a pretty hard hit to take. We named them, fed them, and really enjoyed watching them do their little bee thing. So when we lost them to mites and mistakes, it was a real downer and could have easily discouraged us from trying again. The problem is, we still like beekeeping. Although at this point in the game we are better at bee-losing rather than keeping, but we can get past this. Learn from our mistakes, and try again. I want to clean the boxes we have and take this opportunity, while they are empty, to paint them and even get a little creative. I am hoping by doing so it will shed a little joy and be the first step to a new beginning.
Chase Tinker and the HOUSE OF MAGIC (The Chase Tinker Series, Book 1)
by Malia Ann Haberman
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The Last Call (The Bill Travis Mysteries Book 1)
by George Wier
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Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin–the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920’s–for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill’s life.
Ensues a chase north across Texas to recover the money and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Yet, through all this action the compelling tale of yet another mystery — an 80-year old missing person’s case — begins to unravel.
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Face the Winter Naked: A Great Depression Novel
by Bonnie Turner
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Daniel Tomelin, a battle-worn veteran with PTSD — haunted by the carnage of World War 1 — deserts his wife and children in the Great Depression and becomes a hobo seeking work and relief from his nightmares.
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… “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.” (Herbert Hoover, accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Palo Alto, California, August 1928)…
It’s a wife and mother providing for her children under miserable, heartbreaking circumstances, while her husband tramps around the country playing a banjo, searching for answers to the puzzle of Daniel Tomelin, keeping his hillbilly sense of humor, his humanity, his love of God and nature intact, while deep inside feeling ashamed and unworthy of the family he loves with all his heart.
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Playing with Fire: A New York Novel
by F. R. Hotchkiss
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A New York advertising CEO stumbles into a fiery affair with a young Russian emigrée despite his happy marriage. As his business sky-rockets, he battles to hold his turbulent life together, weighing passion against long-lasting love.
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Kitchen Dads The Basics: Have Fun with Friends and Family Cooking Real Food
by Cliff Pelloni
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