With the sun shining so bright yesterday and the temperature up, my partner in crime and I got a good indication of how our two beehives are doing. The one that was caught as a swarm was buzzing about wildly with such a traffic jam to get in and out of the hive you knew they needed a few extra guards to keep up with the activity. The original hive that we had purchased was no where near as active. I was relieved to see that there was some activity since there was such a huge die off, but it wasn’t all that impressive. So my mission now is to acquire another swarm. It’s time to talk to some experienced beekeepers and see if we might be able to tag along with them when they get a call to catch a swarm.

Colt (A Nicholas Colt Thriller Book 1*)
by Jude Hardin
4.2 Stars (221 Reviews)
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery

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October 21: just an ordinary day, unless you’re a former rock star…

The sole survivor of a plane crash…

A private investigator working out of a camper…

For Nicholas Colt, October 21 is an unlucky day. A day for nightmares. It always has been, and this year is no exception.

Someone is brutally murdering the offspring of an anonymous sperm donor, and Colt’s missing client is next on the list. With less than four days to find the young man — and, with a pair of drug-addicted study partners, a violent motorcycle gang, a stalker ex-girlfriend, and a host of other obstacles standing in his way — Colt faces the most challenging and deadly case of his life.

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Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice
by Heidi Ashworth
4.1 Stars (110 Reviews)
Genre: Romance

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Miss Elizabeth Armistead, India born and raised, is happily betrothed to British soldier, Duncan Cruikshank. When she arrives in London a month prior to the wedding she meets Mr. Lloyd-Jones and soon finds that he has invaded even her dreams. Besides Duncan, Mr. Lloyd-Jones is the only man who makes her feel as if he sees past her exceptional beauty to the person within. Her mother would prefer Elizabeth marry the rich and well-connected Mr. Lloyd-Jones while his sister is ecstatic that he is now free to woo Miss Armistead since he has broken off his engagement to the disgraceful Cecily Ponsonby. However, Elizabeth’s commitment to the man she promised to marry is at odds with the likes of Mr. Lloyd-Jones who has cried off from one engagement already. How can she betray the man she believes to love her for her virtues so as to indulge her love for a man she fears she cannot trust?

Jaded and betrayed, Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones and Sir Anthony Crenshaw make a solemn vow to avoid the Marriage Mart for the duration of the London season. When Sir Anthony is called away on a journey in the company of his grandmother’s ward, Miss Delacourt, Colin finds he cannot abide by their agreement, especially when his father expects him to squire his sister to society’s endless balls and routs. When Colin encounters the breathtakingly beautiful Miss Elizabeth Armistead, he is intrigued by her lack of fascination for his great standing in society, family fortune, and captivating charm. When he learns that she is already betrothed, he feels himself safe from hurt in her company until he discovers the secret she has been guarding, one that threatens to batter his vulnerable heart all past mending.

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Frog Hollow (Witches of Sanctuary Book 1)
by Savannah Blevins
4.7 Stars (20 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy | Romance

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It’s a sign. No one is safe.

At just twenty-two years old, Wilhelmina Daniels inherits a house, a family of eclectic witches, and a death sentence on the same day. As revealed by Reid Thomas, her shy but smoldering neighbor, Wilhelmina is a descendent of the Innocent — a line of gifted women who are to be admired, feared, and above all else, protected.

Death, mayhem, and The Haunted…
The murder of Wilhelmina’s mother — the family matriarch — sends the small town’s rumor-mill into a frenzy. Suspicions fall on The Haunted, a rival force with dual personalities, one of them being Julien Cote.

It’s difficult to believe the charming boy has a sexual deviant with a hankering for violence lurking inside.

Rumor has it Julien can seduce an angel out of her wings. Wilhelmina doesn’t have wings, but if he calls her cheri d’amour one more time, she’s liable to lose something of equal importance — her heart. But with Reid hailing from her clan, will she stay close to her own, or venture into the unknown?

Even a powerful spell can’t seal Julien’s fate…

Julien knows an incantation that just might help Wilhelmina to solve her mother’s death, but when an unidentified stalker is spotted spying in her house, her family is certain it’s Julien’s dangerous alter ego come out to play.

Wilhelmina must decide — is risking her life worth the possible heartbreak of discovering the truth about Julien’s fate and her mother’s death? Or will she cast aside her desire for Julien and vow her love to Reid.

Leaving her past forever buried in the murky depth of… Frog Hollow

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Clémentine’s Uncommon Scents
by Jocelyne Lebon
4.8 Stars (14 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction

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Have you ever been hijacked? By your nose, that is? Have you ever been, at a mere whiff, snatched and catapulted into a time of remembered bliss? Or remembered grief? What if your nose was a veritable time machine transporting and immersing you, mind, body and soul into a past long gone yet as exquisitely vivid as the present?

On the surface, there is nothing remarkable about Clémentine’s nose: it has only two nostrils and sits roughly in the middle of her face. Yet when it is discovered that the six-year old has in fact the nose of a bloodhound, it soon converts her into a force to be reckoned with in the small hamlet where she is growing up. Is she angel or beast? Her bizarre attribute garners her praise but also subjects her to taunts and insults, until a searing humiliation brings her ambivalence to a tipping point, and upon reaching puberty she makes a decision which will change the course of her life by a few latitudes. How she handles and resolves her strong ambivalence is developed in this olfactory odyssey, a sensuous tale with comedy, drama, and romance, drenched in fragrant magic realism.

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Hickory Road Ramblings, Essays and Photographs on Life and Gardening
by Barbara Jean McHugh, Linda Thomas, Paul Thomas
4.5 Stars (15 Reviews)
Genre: Sports & Outdoors | Biographies & Memoirs

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Hickory Road Ramblings is a compilation of Barbara Jean McHugh’s essays and photographs depicting her life as a writer,gardener and artist. Ron Kovach, senior editor of The Writer magazine writes: “You don’t have to live in rural America to appreciate this lovely book about nature and gardening and country living. Dipping into these gentle essays and evocative photographs I have found is the perfect antidote to busy urban lives in our increasingly complicated digital world. Barbara writes soulfully and well of the deceptively “simple things” that are actually quite meaningful- feeling cool breezes, being dazzled by the sight of fireflies at night, picking berries, attending to her flower bed, watching a blanket of drifting snow and moonlight shadows”.

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