I have never had a jog/hike that I can look back at and say was exciting. With all the creatures out there who want to eat hikers I really appreciate that nothing exciting happens, until yesterday. My partner in crime and I were out hiking through a beautiful, yet very painful hilly regional park when we came across the most intense humming noise. We know that noise!!! BEES!!! Lots of them! We followed the sound to an old oak tree. We could see the cute bees buzzing about wildly going in an out of a hole in the tree. We had gone this path numerous times and wondered why we hadn’t noticed them before. That is when we noticed the sound was coming from a different location as well. Up high in the trees we saw them.. the SWARM! The colony had just split and the old queen and her portion of the colony was leaving to find a new home. We had studied about swarms, but have never seen it in action. It was Amazing! I wanted so badly to take them home with us, but putting a swarm in your pocket is looked down upon and very uncomfortable… too bad.
The Illegal Gardener (The Greek Village Collection Book 1)
Sara Alexi
Genre: Travel | Literary Fiction
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From INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHOR Sara Alexi, who ranks as one of Amazon.co.uk’s TOP Literary Fiction authors The first in the Greek Village Collection.
Sara Alexi weaves this entrancing story of the burgeoning relationship that develops between two people from very different backgrounds and cultures; an English woman living in Greece and the Pakistani illegal immigrant who becomes her gardener and house boy. Each brings their own problems, their own past baggage, and she approaches these with sympathy and understanding as well as exploring the nuances and differences in their cultures as they become more and more dependent on each other. This is a book that will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading…
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Kiss the Tiger (Parkside Avenue Book 1)
Raquel Lyon
Genre: Romance | Teen & Young Adult
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Nineteen year-old Amy’s love life sucks. A year ago, she thought Joshua Jackson was the man of her dreams, until one night, his brother refused to take ‘no’ for an answer, and her dream evaporated. Searching for love in a string of meaningless relationships, she finally gives up, realising no one else will ever live up to her dream of Josh. All Amy wants now is to spend her long awaited holiday relaxing and trying to forget, but her sister has other plans, and sets her up on a hot date that changes everything.
Josh would rather be anywhere other than Greece. It isn’t the country he dislikes; it’s the company. Being forced to work out his differences with his brother was not how he’d planned to spend his summer. So far he’s stuck to his good behaviour promise, but when the cause of the dispute turns out to be his blind date, family loyalties are the last thing on his mind, and he is determined not to waste the second chance and lose her all over again.
Book one in the Parkside Avenue series: a set of stand-alone stories, with interlocking characters and a HEA. Kiss the Tiger is a new adult, romance novel containing language and sexual situations that may not be appropriate for readers under 18.
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Saving London
Taylor Dawn
Genre: Fantasy | Contemporary Fiction
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The List. That Signified Finality. The Journey. That Would Span The Globe. The Sacrifice. That Would Decide The Outcome. The Choice. That Could Unleash Evil On Earth. The End Is Only The Beginning…
“You have terminal cancer.” London Patterson, a seemingly healthy young woman, had her entire life ahead of her. That was until four little words brought everything to a screeching halt. As the shock and grief begin to fade, London decides to map out her last year and embark on an epic journey to complete a bucket list. She wants to do the things she’s been afraid to do in her life, step out of her self-contained box, and see the world. What she didn’t expect was for a mysterious stranger named Adam to breeze into her life like a breath of fresh air. Adam offers to help London complete her list on one condition… that she sees it through to the end. Agreeing on those terms, the two set out on an adventure of a lifetime. But London soon realizes that Adam isn’t quite… human. Along their journey odd occurrences happen that cause London to question who or what Adam is and why he’s helping her. Follow London as she checks off her bucket list in this inspiring new Urban Fantasy novel from Taylor Dawn.
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Man Down
Roger Smith
Genre: Suspense | Mystery | Crime Fiction
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A guilty person is always his own hangman. It’s ten years since businessman John Turner, his college professor wife and infant daughter fled violence-torn South Africa for a new life in Tucson, Arizona. A life that seems prosperous and peaceful until a home invasion plunges them into an orgy of bloodshed. As three masked gunmen terrorize the Turners, exposing the fault lines in a marriage built on a foundation of lies, John is forced to confront the truth about his complicity in an unspeakably brutal crime in Johannesburg a decade ago and ask himself a question: is it payback time? Man Down is both a harrowingly propulsive thriller and a meditation on moral ambiguity and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life.
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The Backyard Play Revolution: How to Engage Kids in Simple, Inexpensive Outdoor Play and Increase Child Health and Motor/Sensory Development
Jason Runkel Sperling
Genre: Parenting & Relationships
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In this eye opening, easy-to-follow, action-oriented book, Jason Runkel Sperling explains how to use screen-free, unstructured outdoor play and toys to increase early-age child learning opportunities and improve happiness for the whole family. You’ll learn: How to encourage your child to enjoy active, outdoor, screen-free play, How to foster unstructured, child-led playtime, The secret to making risky play work for your child, Practical advice on how to pick the right toys and transform your backyard, How to set up your backyard playspace and not break the bank, And much, much more…
Follow one father’s entertaining and informative experiments to find play and toys that inspire his children to play outside, offline, and independently — like children of past generations. Author Jason Runkel Sperling shares his six-year journey discovering the history of play, playgrounds, toys, and the role of adults in their children’s experiences, culminating in a revolutionary approach to backyard play. Full of humor, parenting insight, and in-depth research, Sperling’s book will change how you think about raising children, and how you organize your home. If you’re like the majority of parents today, you may have noticed the differences in modern childhood. Unlike every other generation, your children spend more time indoors, glued to screens, and are less active and free to roam than in any time in history. You likely have come across countless articles on the epidemic of child obesity and behavioral problems today, and perhaps you’ve heard that getting children to play outside is an easy and inexpensive remedy.
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