I know I say this every year, but this time I mean it. I am NOT going to plant milkweed in the garden to attract Monarch Butterflies anymore. It turns out that one that I saw fluttering from one milkweed to the next, was not laying eggs. Must have been a male. I have been searching everyday for eggs or baby caterpillars, and I have found exactly zero. What I do find every day is milkweed plants that are infested with aphids. The plants are completely covered with the gross little bugs and are dripping with some gross liquid. Once again I have spent a full summer with a flowerbed that is ugly and gross. NOPE. I am done done. This experiment is going to go the way of the pumpkins. It took me five years to figure out that I just didn’t have the space for pumpkins. I think I have been trying to attract Monarchs for four years, so I can confidently say I am learning faster now. I will still plant a few in pots in the side yard, but I am no longer dedicating a full bed to those ungrateful butterflies. HMMPH!!
A Lack of Motive: (David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series Book 8)
by Stephen Penner
Genre: Thrillers
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MOTIVE, MEANS, OPPORTUNITY. THE SOLUTION TO THE CLASSIC WHODUNIT. BUT WHAT IF THE PERSON “WHO DONE IT” HAD NO MOTIVE AT ALL?
The defendant has everything any person could want: fame, riches, a mansion on the shores of Lake Washington. So why would he murder some nameless drifter in a parking garage under the booming downtown of Seattle’s most affluent suburb? His lawyers argue he wouldn’t, and therefore he didn’t. But the admittedly grainy surveillance video seems to say otherwise. Homicide D.A. David Brunelle encounters new friends, old flames, and a relentless defense attorney as he tries to hold a killer responsible. But how can he convince the jury the killer committed the crime when he has to admit there’s a complete lack of motive?
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Tex (SEAL Team EAST Book 1)
by Zoe Dawson
Genre: Romance | Foreign Languages
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Michael “Tex” Penn comes under fire when a mission goes bad and the Navy pilot embedded with the team is killed in action. The pilot’s wife, the daughter of an influential senator, wants answers the Navy has forbidden him to give. The OP was as black as night and Top Secret classified. A JAG officer and her partner are assigned to investigate the case to determine what happened during the mission and why the pilot died. In steps Lieutenant Nora Wilson, blonde, blue-eyed and in charge, the kind of confident woman who stirs his blood. But she’s the enemy. She wants his team to spill the details which goes against everything he’s been taught.
A former Super Hornet pilot and Navy aviator, Nora already knows she’s going to get push back, already understands that Navy SEALs usually take their secrets to the grave, but a man is dead, and she’s been directed to get the pilot’s wife her answers. The minute she comes up against their steely-eyed, confident CO, she knows she has her work cut out for her. Clashing with him professionally, leads to getting closer to him personally than she should. Her mission and her career could be on the line if she were discovered sleeping with the enemy. But when they finally spill the beans, Nora finds herself taking that same fateful OP to finish out the mission that will take her deep onto foreign soil with only the SEALs at her back.
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Strands of Time (Aeterna Chronicles Book 1)
by GPV Publishing, Kris Ruhler
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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One prophecy. Two Stones. Three Aeternas. Welcome to the Aeterna Chronicles… A baker’s apprentice bites off more than he can chew when he discovers the truth of who he really is.
Seventeen-year-old Kallum has life all planned out: pass his simulation test, snap up a job on the upper rung, and ask the girl of his dreams out. No more working at the bakery.
But life has a funny way of ruining plans.
Not only does he get reassigned to a hermit, but his hallucinations also make him fear that he’s turning into his worst nightmare: becoming one of the Crazies.
Worse still, the aetherium, an energy stone bestowed by the alien race called the Aeternas, is failing. And, according to the hermit, it’s all Kallum’s fault. Without the dome shield protecting Levitor, the Reavers and beasts roaming the land outside are bound to invade.
Levitor’s fate rests upon Kallum’s shoulders. He’s the only one who can seek out his father, who has the means to save the city. But the Aeternas are hunting him down, and he’s running out of time.
What will he sacrifice for the greater good?
Welcome to the Aeterna Chronicles.
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The Jess Williams Trilogy (A Jess Williams Western Book 1)
by Robert J. Thomas
Genre: Action & Adventure | Westerns
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From the Author… Offered for the first time ever comes the Jess Williams Western Trilogy that started it all. This trilogy will only be offered for a limited time in e-format. It includes the full copies of the first three books in the long-running series of Jess Williams adventures.
THE RECKONING starts out this western series with the adventures of Jess Williams. He is an ordinary young boy with a loving family growing up in Black Creek, Kansas. That all changes when he comes home and finds his family brutally murdered. Forced to become a man overnight, he vows to avenge his family’s savage deaths.
He begins to practice with his pa’s Colt .45 and then a stroke of destiny arrives when he discovers a new pistol and holster that mysteriously appears. Jess practices with it relentlessly until he becomes so quick that he is truly unbeatable on the draw. He leaves home transformed from a boy to a highly skilled shootist with no reason to live except to hunt down and kill each of the men responsible for the murders. As he begins his journey, he does so with a pistol and holster that no one has ever seen before — and won’t again for almost one-hundred years.
In BROTHER’S KEEPER, Jess Williams returns home to Black Creek, Kansas, after hunting down and killing the three men who brutally murdered his family. When he arrives, he finds himself in the midst of a bloody war with Dick Carter and his hired guns. Carter wants revenge for the death of his only son, Red, and Jess is the one who did the killing. Jess’s first job is to eliminate Carter and his hired guns and then finish his search for the brother he never knew he had.
SINS OF THE FATHER has Jess hunting down his real father, Eddie Sloan. After two years, he finally has him in his sight when a desperate call for help comes in from U.S. Marshal Frank Reedy. Jess answers the call for help and heads for Timber, Texas, and straight into a bloody range war between two cattle barons. Rance Madden and his hired guns have no idea of the trouble heading their way. Jess arrives and men start dying one by one. Madden begins to feel the grip of death at his throat — and Jess is slowly tightening the noose.
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Pies and Pandemonium (A Belle Harbor Cozy Mystery Book 6)
by Sue Hollowell
Genre: Mystery
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A pie to die for, tangled family ties, and farmer’s market folly…
Sixth in the Belle Harbor Cozy Mystery series!
Buoyed by a new baking alliance with her business neighbor, Tilly teams up with her to enter the annual berry pie competition. Coupled with her parents first visit to quaint Belle Harbor, Tilly’s got her plate full. No sooner does she reconnect with her mom, than a dead body inserts itself front and center.
With the death of his father, the heir apparent to the ceramic pie plate empire is prime suspect number one. But as Tilly, and her unlikely sleuthing partner mom team up to investigate, they quickly find layers of deception buried deep in the history of the annual pie competition.
Tilly and her mom reveal the length contestants will go to for the top prize in the contest. Can they slice up this juicy mystery to serve up the killer or will they be forced to eat humble pie?
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Vintage Recipes (Lost Recipes Vintage Cookbooks)
by Louise Davidson
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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Celebrate the flavors of the classic recipes from the previous generations with this collection of old-fashioned vintage recipes.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing, and many of us would love to explore the decades of the 1900s. In this cookbook, we share with you some of the classics of each decade, from the 1920s through to the 1970s. Some will be foods you’ve heard of but might have never tried, while others might be familiar already.
Each recipe has a short description of its origin, making you discover the history behind the dishes that have been tried and perfected over time.
This illustrated cookbook will show you the way our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers used to cook food for their families. The recipes included here are from our family recipe boxes handwritten on cards and have been passed down from one generation to the next. The dishes are heartwarming, healthy, and made every time with lots of love!
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