I did it. Yesterday I fully committed to giving up on attracting Monarch butterflies. It’s not that I am done with Monarchs. I love the guys. It’s the nasty aphid infested Milkweed that makes me so crazy. The milkweed in the backyard flowerbeds were completely covered in bugs, dripping with a nasty sticky ooz, and had black gunk all over them. Most of the milkweed was unaliving from the mess. It just looked terrible, so I yanked them all out. The mess was also causing a lot of the other plants to unalive as well. It was crazy how much damage was being done. I am really cutting back on the amount of plants I will have in the beds. This time I am going for the less is more kind of feeling. I still have a few milkweed plants in the back side yard, so if any Monarchs come around they have a little place to land, but I am no longer sacrificing such a huge chunk of my yard to them. Nope, I am now going to concentrate on Swallowtail Butterflies. SO PRETTY!
Murder at the Limes: A gripping murder mystery from the Roman Empire (Murder in Antiquity Book 1)
by Alex Wagner
Genre: Historical Fiction | Mystery
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Accused of murdering a Roman officer? Welcome to the arena — faster than you can declare, ‘Not Guilty!’
Thanar, a shady merchant and disgraced son of a Germanic chieftain, is implicated in the murder of a Roman officer. Before he can even try to prove his innocence, he himself almost gets killed by an assassin on a nocturnal street.
The trail leads to a well-known slave trader in whose villa the rich and powerful indulge in luxury — with lavish food, rich wines, and the most beautiful girls in the province.
Soon, further respected citizens of Vindobona start losing their lives…
Will the arena’s roaring lions be the next stop for Thanar or can he solve this lethal puzzle in time?
Layla, an astute and strikingly cunning slave girl, could be his only hope…
Fans of Lindsey Davis, Rosemary Rowe or Simon Scarrow will love this gripping mystery series set in the ancient Roman Empire!
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The Way the Story Goes (Magnolia Sound Book 7)
by Samantha Chase
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Romance
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Thriller writer Mia Kingsley has been hit with a serious case of writer’s block and she needs a little peace and quiet. A beach front property in Magnolia Sound seemed like the perfect escape and just the change of scenery she needs to get the words flowing again. That is, until her noisy neighbor starts running power tools and blasting music at all hours of the day and night. Before long, the next victim in her story starts to bear an uncanny resemblance to the contractor next door.
Austin Coleman never wanted to come back to Magnolia Sound. But sometimes, life takes an unexpected turn and the only way to get back on your feet is to go home. His plan is to avoid all things connected to his past, and renovating a beach house in the off-season is just the way to do that — there’ll be no neighbors and no distractions. Or so he thought until he almost maims his sexy neighbor with a flying sink. Despite his best efforts, trouble follows everywhere he goes.
At first she wanted to kill him. Now she wants to kiss him. Sometimes you have to wait and see where the story goes.
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Deep Core: A Coruscant Novel (The Coruscant Series Book 1)
by FX Holden
Genre: Computers & Technology
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“If you want to see where AI is headed, the Coruscant series will show you,” Amazon reader.
“An original and expertly plotted hard-sci-fi romp.” Publishers Weekly BookLife.
“Intriguing… engaging… mysterious… fascinating… has twists upon twists.” Readers Favorite
AJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility. He likes the quiet life. Visiting with his ma. A burger at Fatty’s. Surfing the Shifting Sea. Staying in flow. But his flow gets sorely disrupted when a new resident moves into Sol Vista and AJ soon finds himself on the run from an interplanetary assassin, trying to track down a hacker otherwise known as Destroyer of Worlds, all so he can save the life of his new girlfriend, who turns out NOT to be the laid back, Territorian skater girl he thought she was. Sometimes the flow is hard to find, even for a cyber.
All books in the Coruscant series are stand-alone stories, set in the Coruscant universe.
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Unattached: A Year of Heartache, Hiking, and Learning How to Love
by Reannon Muth
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Travel
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Everyone thinks 33-year-old travel writer Reannon Muth is brave for backpacking through dozens of countries on her own. But what Reannon’s friends, travel blog readers, and boyfriend don’t know is Reannon has an anxiety disorder that makes it difficult for her to get close to people. She’s afraid to ask for help, she’s afraid to be vulnerable, but most of all, she’s afraid to be herself.
When Reannon suffers a surprising loss, her fearless façade begins to crumble, and she decides to hike Mount Whitney — the tallest mountain in the contiguous US. But as she embarks on her biggest adventure yet, Reannon realizes if she has any hope of healing, she must face her fears or risk losing everything, including her one chance at real love.
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A Deadly Lesson (Storage Ghost Murder Book 5)
by Gillian Larkin
Genre: Mystery | Suspense
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A cozy murder mystery with ghosts.
Grace Abrahams helps ghosts – particularly those who were murdered. She meets the ghosts at storage locker auctions.
In this story, Grace meets a young girl, Abbie Quill, who died on her eighteenth birthday. Abbie was the victim of a hit and run. Grace discovers that Abbie waved to the driver just before the car sped up and raced towards Abbie on purpose. Abbie can’t remember who the driver was, but she knows she saw L-plates on the car. It’s not long before Grace discovers several suspects – all with L-plates on their cars. But who killed Abbie? And why?
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