Our beekeeping class last night was certainly a downer. The instructor should have started out by saying, “It was a dark and stormy night.” The topic was all about diseases and sicknesses that could infect a hive. For two hours we reviewed slide after slide of sick bees, gooey globs of death, and I am pretty sure we saw the face of the devil himself in the honeycomb of a decimated beehive. The teacher of course talked about how to treat the hives in each case, but I think I was too distracted by the horrific photos. I had the ick face expression going for so long it almost stuck that way. Of course I had nightmares last night. The instructor promised us that next week would be a lot more fun. After that night of doom and gloom he really needs to followup with something cheerful. The Cheerios bee might have to come in and give us a pep talk.

BROTHERS & KINGS (Book 1) (CONQUISTADORS TRILOGY)
Dennis Santaniello
5.0 Stars (1 Review)
Genre: Historical Fiction | Action & Adventure

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The first part of an epic CONQUISTADORS trilogy. “BROTHERS AND KINGS,” tells the story of the brothers Pizarro and their conquest of the Inca empire through the eyes of Sardina, one of Francisco’s most loyal and seasoned men. Also detailed are the trials of Manco Inca, who was commanded by the Spanish conquistadors to serve as a king to his people, and who led their eventual revolt.

“CONQUISTADORS” is a book trilogy that explores the Spanish conquest of the New World from the years of 1527-1542. The genre is Historical Epic, and the storytelling is wide in scope with various characters and events unfolding within spans of years. The story is told from a truly dualistic point of view, from both perspectives of the Spanish and the Natives. Each story depicts a different Spanish expedition, but in the end, this is Sardina’s story. We follow Sardina through the jungles of Peru, to the vast Arizona deserts, to the Mississippi River; seeing his transformation from a young idealistic soldier to harden veteran, and later to a self-realized individual. Thematically, all stories are about the sacred vs. the profane, and each story follows a certain pattern: conquest, obsession, and madness. Other aspects are also explored including religion, (of both the natives and the Spaniards), the realms of power, cruelty, and the angst of those trying to find meaning.

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Sendero (Sendero Mysteries Book 1)
Max Tomlinson
4.6 Stars (48 Reviews)
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery

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The Truth Doesn’t Always Set You Free.

In 1987, the dirty war that will last twelve years and kill thirty thousand Peruvians finally reaches up through the Andean cloud forest for Nina and her family. Nina’s father is shot by soldiers, her mother raped, and her brother lost to the shadowy ranks of Shining Path guerrillas. And when Agustín Malqui, the village pastor, files a legal complaint against the military, it’s no surprise when he disappears in the middle of the night — just another casualty of the military regime. Twenty-odd years later, Nina, now an officer in Cuzco’s tourist police, comes across a familiar name on the police printer that she scans daily for any trace of her long-lost brother. Agustín Malqui is alive. After spending years in a political prison, the broken pastor has been wandering the country, saving souls and drowning his demons in pisco. Nina tracks him down, only to lose him yet again in a police sweep of political malcontents. But before Malqui disappears, he tells her a drunken tale she can scarcely believe: that her brother Miguel is still alive. Despite warnings and threats from her chief and the pleadings of her lover, an officer in Peru’s anti-terrorist branch, Nina presses on to find Malqui. Her search takes her through Peru’s underworld, from remote villages high in the Andes to the steaming jungle haunts of the narcotraficantes, and ultimately to a secret political prison in the altiplano, where she learns the truth about Malqui and her own vanished brother.

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Becoming Jonika
PJ Devlin
5.0 Stars (18 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Coming of Age

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After she meets nineteen-year-old Ishmael, Joni Byrnes stops caring about home, school, and swim team. Instead, she embraces Ishmael’s hippy lifestyle of music, pot, and Hermann Hesse. When she sells marijuana for Ishmael, Joni gains notoriety as Joni Juana — but her new found popularity ends in a bust. While Ishmael goes to prison, Joni avoids juvenile detention by agreeing to spend the summer of 1969 at Camp Saint Augustine of Hippo teaching inner-city black kids to swim. Joni arrives at camp with two joints stuffed in the pockets of her cutoffs. As the only white counselor, she’s greeted with: “You couldn’t find no crackers to save?” In a year marked by the Vietnam War, pressure for civil rights, the Manson Family murders, the first moonwalk, and three days of peace and music at Woodstock, Joni’s choices dictate her future. When the end of camp is only a week away, Joni’s decision to smoke a joint jeopardizes the respect she’s earned and the agreement that kept her out of juvie. BECOMING JONIKA is a gripping novel about coming of age during a time of cultural upheaval and re-imagination of the American dream. At its heart, it’s a story of alienation, acceptance, and accountability.

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The Last Hero (The Last Hero Trilogy Book 1)
Nathaniel Danes
4.6 Stars (27 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction

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Contact with a race of pacifists convinces mankind to lay down its weapons and keep the peace. The last Medal of Honor recipient, Trent Maxwell, trades glory for the comforts of a family after the U.S. Army disbands. All that ends when an alien menace attacks the New Earth colony, which forces a crash mobilization. Trent finds himself reactivated and traveling through space to distant worlds, in order to stop this new enemy. During the century long journey of death, love, and loss, he also deals with the law of relativity that wreaks havoc with his daughter.

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The Common Core Guide to Housekeeping
Chloe Garfield
4.5 Stars (4 Reviews)
Genre: Humor & Satire

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Keep your home neat and tidy, while maintaining the rigorous standards of Common Core testing. With the strategies contained in this book, your family will be happy, your house will be in order, and you will have the energy to be sure the Common Core is given the attention it requires. Filled with simple, but effective, tips, the Common Core Guide to Housekeeping will help you maintain your sanity during times when state testing demands that you give 100%.

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Blue Courage, Part 1: (Afterlife Fiction) (Action Adventure) (Battle for the Afterlife Saga)
CJ Davis
4.1 Stars (13 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult | Action & Adventure

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Death is just the beginning for Navy SEAL Reese Hawthorne. After an unlikely encounter with the girl of his dreams during a rescue mission in the drug cartel filled jungles of Mexico, Reese awakens in a futuristic city in the Afterlife. A formidable, massive wall is the only thing protecting the city from countless ferocious prehistoric beasts, and hoards of ghoulish creatures, known as Lost Souls. On the eve of a perilous cross-country race across the Afterlife realm between the forces of good and evil, war hangs in the balance on the heals of a loose treaty created hundreds of years ago. Armed with deadly weapons and their enhanced physical abilities, like strength, vision and quickness — the most gifted warriors, are pitted against each other. The first side to either destroy their opponents, or reach a distant ancient temple far outside the safety of the city walls, will win an unimaginable power, and change the outcome of humanity. Reese must do everything he can to stop the forces of evil from winning the race and enslaving every free soul in the Universe.

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Flat Tummy Yoga: Your Secret Weapon Yoga Guide For A Sculpted Stomach (Just Do Yoga Book 4)
Julie Schoen
4.0 Stars (30 Reviews)
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting

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You Can Have A Flat Tummy And Sculpted Stomach In Weeks Without Ever Doing Another Set Of Sit Ups! Yoga is the secret behind the amazing bodies (and incredible mid sections) of many of our favorite actresses and models. In this must-have edition of Just Do Yoga, Julie Schoen, former model and passionate yoga instructor, reveals the three simple steps to achieving the tummy you have always dreamed of! • Burn Calories • Tone The Tummy • Strengthen The Back • And Do It All With The Relaxing and Pain Free Practice of Yoga! Complete with 3 well-sequenced yoga workouts and beautiful photographs accompanied by precise details of how to properly perform each move, Flat Tummy Yoga is the only book you will need to tone and flatten your stomach. In a matter of weeks you will be ready to not only give that 2-piece bathing suit another shot, but you will have discovered why the world is in love with yoga!

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