I met a man! A BEE MAN! Yes, as usual I am yelling, but it’s because I had the most wonderful thing happen yesterday. While I was out walking little Junebug, I decided to take the longer route, and I am sure glad I did. Just a few blocks from my house Junebug and I came across a swarm of bees hanging out on the sidewalk. I almost walked right by them because they were so calm and quiet that they could have easily been missed. I immediately called my friend who has been mentoring my partner in crime and I to see if he could help us gather them up. Unfortunately he did not answer the phone and all I could do was leave a message. While I was planning what I was going to do next a professional bee guy showed up. Thankfully he was pretty cool about me hanging out with him, watching how he collected the bees, and asking tons of questions. I am amazed at how much I learned and how willing he was to teach me. I was reminded just how generous bee people are with their time and knowledge. It was really fascinating to watch him gently coax the bees into the box and amazing how calm they were. It was a slow process but mesmerizing to watch. I could have sat there all day.
Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel
by Ayse Kulin, John W. Baker
Genre: Romance | World Literature
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An international bestseller by one of Turkey’s most beloved authors.
As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court physician. In defiance of their families, they marry, fleeing to Paris to build a new life.
But when the Nazis invade France and begin rounding up Jews, the exiled lovers will learn that nothing — not war, not politics, not even religion — can break the bonds of family. For after they learn that Selva is but one of their fellow citizens trapped in France, a handful of brave Turkish diplomats hatch a plan to spirit the Alfandaris and hundreds of innocents, many of whom are Jewish, to safety. Together, they must traverse a war-torn continent, crossing enemy lines and risking everything in a desperate bid for freedom. From Ankara to Paris, Cairo, and Berlin, Last Train to Istanbul is an uplifting tale of love and adventure from Turkey’s beloved bestselling novelist Ay?e Kulin.
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Stigma: Wicked Rebirth
by Thomas Goyette
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Literature & Fiction | Action & Adventure
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It’s been years since the fall, since Sera was found and we realized that our stories of creation weren’t stories at all. To find a god, alive, was something no one had dreamt of-but was something too many feared.
Sera was weak, and with her capture a pulse washed over the earth-gifting the millions who were chosen fractions of her power as a desperate call for help.
But with the pulse came something greater, Klaus, who leveled entire cities in search of his beloved in what became known as the Reckoning before disappearing entirely.
Fear spread in the wake of his destruction, with fear panic, and with panic, war. Soon anyone who had been touched by Sera’s grace became hunted-forced to live on the fringes of a broken world.
The time has come to not just survive, but to thrive, and embrace the stigma that has become our lives.
We will fight, we will survive.
Amidst the mist, we will rise.
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Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders Book 1)
by Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy
Genre: Mystery | Crime Fiction
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The first book in Swedish author Viveca Sten’s enormously popular Sandhamn Murders series.
On a hot July morning on Sweden’s idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore.
Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident — until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast. But this time it is Berggren’s cousin, whom Thomas interviewed in Stockholm just days before.
As the island’s residents reel from the news, Thomas turns to his childhood friend, local lawyer Nora Linde. Together, they attempt to unravel the riddles left behind by these two mysterious outsiders — while trying to make sense of the difficult twists their own lives have taken since the shared summer days of their youth.
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Grey Stone
by Jacob Kennedy, Jean Knight Pace
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Fantasy
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In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace. Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last thirteen years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world. Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last nineteen years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he’s sure to lose. But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in the woods and Wittendon is forced to arrest the boy’s father soon after, both of them begin to realize that keeping the rules might be just as terrifying as breaking them. Now serf and master must learn to cut through their own prejudices and work together in order to turn their world before it turns on them. Grey Stone is a story of dogs who talk, wolves who kill, and a stone that-for better or worse-can change all that.
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Horse Hunts: A Desert Manhunt (Smoke Tree Mystery Series Book 2)
by Gary J. George
Genre: Literature & Fiction | United States | Mystery
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In the middle of an important investigation,Smoke Tree Substation Commander Carlos Caballo, known up and down the Colorado River Valley as “Horse,” is suddenly called away to find a man who has shot an inspector at the California Agricultural Inspection station in the tiny desert community of Vidal, California. A California Highway patrolman has found the car abandoned alongside Highway95. When Horse and and the patrolman force open the trunk, they discover a body: the man’s wife. Horse realizes he and his deputies must find a killer who is on foot in the vast, unpopulated area where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet. During the hunt, they encounter a mysterious and self-sufficient Native American who becomes an important part of the pursuit.
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