It was such a beautiful and enjoyable day for my sweet chickies yesterday. The ladies spent almost the entire day at my baby bassets school garden, eating bugs and exploring. I have brought my ladies a few times to spend the day in the garden with the kids and it always cracks me up just how much the kids love to see the chickens. The school is in a very rural community and quite a few of these kids have chickens of their own, but they are always thrilled to see my ladies clucking around. They are always anxious to hold them and are amazed how sweet they are. I am also really happy that the ladies are so comfortable around screaming wild kids. The coop at home is in the same yard that the kids play in, so they always see kids running around being loud and crazy. If someone is making them nervous they just walk away or just sit. Either way they are cool. The ladies are going back today. The rain is coming and I want them to get as much exercise as possible.
Under The Ice: A Gus LeGarde Mystery (LeGarde Mysteries Book 9)
Aaron Paul Lazar
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Mystery | Family Life
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What do you do when your past comes back to kill you? After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own child. But the LeGarde family’s fragile oasis is shattered when the man of Camille’s nightmares is released from prison. Greg Robinson never wanted to be a father. But he’s playing the biological card for all it’s worth to get close to Shelby, so he can realize his true goal — revenge against Gus LeGarde, the man who “stole” his wife and daughter. Lured by the promise of connecting with her real dad, Shelby vanishes, sending Gus and Camille on a desperate race through the worst ice storm of the century to find her before Robinson can act on his chilling threat… “If I can’t have them, neither can you.”
*** Note: all books in this series can be read as “standalones” in any order.
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A Unique Kind of Love: Young Adult Romance
Jasmine Rose
Genre: Coming of Age | Teen & Young Adult | Romance
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A person’s eyes are the doors to their thoughts, feelings and the purity of their heart.” Lena Rose Winter was a seventeen year old girl sandwiched between trying to keep all her secrets and screaming her thoughts out. Liam Christopher Black was a boy who couldn’t scream, yet his eyes spoke for him secrets that only Lena can hear. In this heartbreaking novel, you’ll find these voiceless teens embark on a journey on speaking their truth, finding love and what it feels like to have someone who will listen to what you don’t say.
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The Hermetica of Elysium (Elysium Texts Series)
Annmarie Banks
Genre: Fantasy
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1494 Barcelona. As Torquemada lights the fires of religious fervor throughout the cities of Spain, accused heretics are not the only victims. Thousands of books and manuscripts are lost to the flames as the Black Friars attempt to purge Europe of the ancient secrets of the gods and the bold new ideas that are ushering in the Renaissance. Nadira lives a dreary life as servant to a wealthy spice merchant until the night a dying scholar is brought to the merchant’s stable, beaten by mercenaries who are on the hunt for The Hermetica of Elysium. To Nadira, words are her life: she lives them as her master’s scrivener and dreams them in her mother’s poetry. She is pursued as passionately as the fabled manuscript for her rare skill as a reader of Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew that makes her valuable to men who pursue the book to exploit its magic. Kidnapped by Baron Montrose, an adventurous nobleman, she is forced to read from the Hermetica. It is soon revealed to her that ideas and words are more powerful than steel or fire for within its pages are the words that incite the Dominicans to religious fervor, give the Templars their power and reveal the lost mysteries of Elysium. As Nadira begins her transformation from servant to sorceress, will she escape the fires of the Inquisition, the clutches of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI and the French king, Charles VIII? And will Montrose’s growing fear of her powers cause her to lose her chance for love?
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Alice in Monologue Land
Amy Gettinger
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Humor & Satire | Contemporary Fiction
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A fun, light, adventure-filled novel full of real women with curves and stage fright. A balance of humor, mystery, and romance.
When adjunct English instructor Alice Chalmers gets roped into reading a part in an upcoming campus production of The Venus Monologues, her life spirals out of control. The teaching job of her dreams is open, but the staid hiring committee won’t appreciate seeing her on stage discussing the “V-word.” Pressured by her dean to perform, Alice is in monologue hell. When she calls the production “The Venomous Mambas” or “The Viral Meningitis,” her children howl. But Alice has more pressing problems: some of her female students are disappearing. At monologue practices, Alice meets the Venus Warriors, a fearless group of college women who cheerfully dish on men, menstruation, and menopause while bonding through skydiving and workshops where ALL things feminine are explored. Add an odd trio of men who long to explore all things feminine with Alice, starting with her lips and moving toward her monologue zone. But seriously: A snake-loving professor in Birkenstocks? A chain-smoking student with a chin mole? Or a too-young Colombian coffee god? The choice makes her head hurt. Things get rough when someone sabotages the monologues with loose stage wires and poisoned brownies. But when one female student is found dead and another is in peril, the Venus Warriors fly to the rescue, and Alice skydives smack into an alligator’s nest of answers.
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Genre: Mythology & Folk Tales | Fantasy | Classics | Contemporary Fiction
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Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Hamilton Wright Mabie was an American writer and editor. Mabie’s most famous work is his collection titled Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know.
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