Turns out I am a helicopter bee mom. I went out, as I do every morning, to check on the bees. It was just becoming light outside and there was a heavy blanket of fog over the yard. I wasn’t expecting my sweet bees to be out at all, yet there they were, peeking out the entrance, stretching their legs and getting ready to fly. At first I was impressed they were early risers, then I got worried that there was something wrong for them to be out so early. I went to take a closer look and see if I could find any sign of distress. Nope none. This is a common scene for me. Any chance I get, I check on my bees. They see my big ol face all up in their business 100 times a day. I know they all know my face and my voice. Even the ones who haven’t been born yet. They know me. I am not sure if they know that I am also the person who comes in the bee suit and breaks open their hive once in a while. I hope they don’t. Bee suit person really messes up their day. They have tried to sting bee suit person, but they haven’t tried to sting shorts and t-shirt person. I still have not been stung by a bee….ever. Am I evil? Why won’t they sting me?
September Mourn: Humor and Hijinks (A Mira James Mystery Book 5)
by Jess Lourey
Genre: Mystery | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Minnesota State Fair is the beloved home of 4H exhibits, Midway rides, and everything on a stick. The festival fun is riding high until the recently crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, a Battle Lake native, is brutally murdered while her regal likeness is carved in butter.
Can Mira James, covering the fair for the Battle Lake Recall, manage make-out time with guitar-slinging Johnny Leeson while winning a blue ribbon for caging a killer?
You bet your last deep-fried Nut Goodie!
September Mourn is a laugh-out-loud romantic comic caper mystery, perfect for readers who enjoy the humorous mysteries of Liliana Hart, Jana DeLeon, Chelsea Field, Gina LaManna, Janet Evanovich, Denise Grover Swank, Lisa Lutz, and Stephanie Bond. If you love to belly-laugh while reading a page-turning mystery, this series is for you!
September Mourn is the fifth in an ongoing series featuring Mira James, an urban woman with rural Minnesota roots. The books can be read in any order; each novel stands alone.
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Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled: box set books 1 – 3
by Bert Murray
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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With drop dead gorgeous Jasmine you never know what will happen next and every date is truly an adventure.
Handsome, NYC, Beatles-music-obsessed prep school grad, Colin falls for free spirit & wild child Jasmine from Laguna Beach, CA. Green eyes, high cheekbones, long blond hair. He thinks she’s beautiful. Colin finds himself madly in love with Jasmine & believes he has met “the one”; but dating Jasmine turns out to be an emotional roller coaster ride.
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Hell’s Children: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (This Dark Age Book 1)
by John L. Monk
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Literary Fiction
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The world has gone to hell and it isn’t coming back.
It happened in a year: starvation, gangs of kids with guns, and every adult in the world dead from the Sickness. Houses are now mausoleums. Civilization lies in the hands of children who’ve never had to feed themselves or survive a winter without gas or electricity. Most will die. Others — a bare few — will tread a different path.
Fourteen-year-old Jack Ferris is a survivor — because his parents raised him that way. Leveraging qualities rare for his age, he must lead his desperate companions to a secret refuge. Too late, he learns that safety is a mirage, and that the high price of hope is paid in blood.
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Planet Single
by Maggie McGuinness
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Humor & Satire | Women’s Fiction | Romance
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Bad kissers, sexy sales reps, and dashing detectives – welcome to life on Planet Single!
After years in the world of marriage and children, being dumped back into single life makes Katerina feel like she’s on a different planet. Things have certainly changed. You can shop online for men now, with a bewildering array of choice, but there doesn’t seem to be a refund policy. Was looking for love always this complicated?
Kat sets off to rediscover herself and her lost libido, which went missing in action some time ago. Learning to navigate her crazy new world, she meets a succession of dodgy online dates, a handsome law enforcer, a little old lady with a taste for vengeance, and a whole tribe of young and virile workmates. Who knew selling stationery could be so much fun? (And maybe that libido isn’t completely lost after all.)
Join Maggie McGuinness in a celebration of love, laughter, starting over – and how friendship can be the sweetest revenge.
(Some sex scenes – not explicit – and lots of ‘colourful’ language.)
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Stranger’s Dance
by Troy B. Kechely
Genre: Historical Fiction
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At the foot of the Continental Divide, rancher Frank Redmond struggles to maintain his land amidst the bleakness of Depression-era Montana. Married but childless, Frank’s wondering if the long-term future of the ranch is worth the effort. For that matter, he’s considering much the same about his wife Abby.
When a stray dog wanders onto the ranch, Frank’s first impulse is to shoot it as vermin. Abby and Clay, Frank’s father, insist on adopting the mutt, naming him Stranger.
For Frank, it’s both the last straw and a convenient excuse. He parlays his skill as a stone carver into a job at Deer Lodge state prison, fifty miles from home. There he labors over a headstone for the warden’s terminally ill wife.
When he finally returns home, he finds Stranger more a member of the family than himself. Frank needs to regain his family’s trust and prove himself. To do so, he’ll need to emulate the dog he once considered killing.
A pensively introspective but hard-hitting read, Stranger’s Dance delves into the challenges and desperation of Montana ranch life in the 1930s and how animals can prove the catalyst for human healing.
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Little Girl Lost
by J S Marciano
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Suspense | Mystery
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Once lost, are we ever the same again… ?
A family is torn apart when a little girl is kidnapped while her family is on vacation.
The press immediately turn on the family, blaming the parents for the young girl’s disappearance.
Time passes and everyone begins to lose hope.
But when a girl is found wandering the streets of Portugal alone, she is returned to her family and the case closed.
Yet something is not right.
And as little Rosemary Cathcart grows up, and her parent’s divorce, that feeling never really leaves her.
Years later, after finding her boyfriend has been cheating on her, Rosemary flees to her brother’s home, where she quickly wears out her welcome.
When her mother arrives and asks her to move in with her and her new husband, Rosemary decides to go to Jersey and work at her father’s hotel.
But when she arrives she learns the hotel is close to bankruptcy and her father on his death bed with cancer.
Before he dies, he has secrets to tell that will change her world, and the world of everyone around her, forever.
And it would seem that Rosemary Cathcart, once a Little Girl Lost, is still yet to be found…
Full of dark secrets and mysterious twists and turns, Little Girl Lost is a must read thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.
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A Texas Ranger
by N. A. Jennings
Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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In 1874, Napoleon Augustus Jennings moved to Texas to join the Rangers under the command of L. H. McNelly. A year later, Jennings was thrown into the conflict between the native Spanish speaking Americans and the English speaking whites who came to settle the area. In an era of cattle thieving and terror, we follow Jennings through the southern border of Texas and find a vivid portrait of life in the late 19th century in one of the most lawless and hardest places to live in the early United States.
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