If you need to have your yard excavated, just hire yourself a flock of chickens. Not even a big flock. All you need is about seven ladies. They will get the job done. Yesterday I left the gate to the pup’s yard open (like a gate will stop them) and within thirty minutes I had seven chickens just finishing up moving all the wood chips from one side of the yard to the other. Not to mention they cleared all the grapes and dandelions. This is all within thirty minutes. A little bit of fear rushed through my spine. For the first time I truly saw the little pterodactyls for who they truly are. By the way… I spelled pterodactyl correctly the first time. I felt a sense of pride in myself I haven’t for a while. If you have read any of my rants for any length of time you know for a fact I make teachers cry with my grammar and spelling. Well today I get a gold star. My sweet chickies? I’ll give them whatever they want to keep those pterodactyl talons away from me.
Aspen Allegations (A Sutton Massachusetts Mystery Book 1)
Lisa Shea
Genre: Mystery | Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction
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A ROMANTIC YOGA MYSTERY INFUSED BY NATURE
Morgan has become settled in her quiet life in Sutton, Massachusetts. Her peaceful morning yoga routine is assisted by her cat, Juliet. In the evening she guides her kayak across the placid surface of Lake Singletary. Everything is in its place. When Morgan stumbles across a dead body in the shadowy depths of Sutton Woods, her stability is knocked askew. Jason, the ranger who comes to her aid, provides a steady rock of support. The death seems at first an accident, but Morgan knows in her heart that a delicate strut of life has fallen out of balance. As Morgan and Jason delve into the mystery, still waters are stirred. Danger billows from the depths of Purgatory Chasm, from the twisted histories that stretch back decades. Can they unravel the tangled skeins before the past catches up with them?
All author’s proceeds of this series benefit battered women’s shelters. Aspen Allegations is the first novel in the award-winning Sutton Massachusetts Mystery series. It is followed by Birch Blackguards. All novels in the Sutton Massachusetts Mystery series are written in a boots-on-the-ground, chapter-a-day format. On November 1st, author Lisa Shea went to the Sutton woods, hiked through them, and then that evening she wrote up the actual sights and sounds of that visit. That was Chapter One.
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The Engineer Wizard (The Genie and the Wizard Series Book 1)
Glenn Michaels
Genre: Fantasy
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Paul Armstead is your average American senior citizen and electrical engineer. He’s 61 years old, unremarkably unattractive, and a self-proclaimed science-fiction nut. He’s lived the American dream in drab, typical fashion without a single noteworthy event in his rather mundane life. So how does he end up fleeing from one end of the world to the other, dodging government dragnets, evil, nightmarish monsters known as the Oni, good wizards, bad wizards, beautiful women, spies, and wizardly spells? Well, it is entirely the genie’s fault…
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Long Way Home (A Mangrove Island Novel Book 1)
Neve Cottrell
Genre: Romance | Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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A second chance at love. Pull up a beach chair and enjoy the fireworks on Mangrove Island in the first book in this contemporary romance series.
Tyler Barnes can’t believe his eyes when Alexis MacAdams walks back into his life. His high school crush left Mangrove Island seventeen years ago and never looked back. He’s held on to the memory of her, even though she never gave him a second glance. Now Alexis is back for the holidays and Tyler is determined to make a lasting impression before she slips away again. He soon learns, however, that her broken heart needs to heal before he has a chance to win it. Can Tyler convince her to risk her heart for a second time?
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Letters from Alcatraz
Michael Esslinger
Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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Letters from Alcatraz now includes a new chapter of author interviews with James “Whitey” Bulger, discussing his years on the Rock.
Alcatraz Island was home to some of the nation’s most notorious criminals including James “Whitey” Bulger, Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Robert Stroud- the Birdman of Alcatraz, Alvin Karpis, Henry Young, Frank Morris, John & Clarence Anglin, and Roy Gardner. In Michael Esslinger’s latest book, Letters from Alcatraz, the prisoners’ stories come to life in their own words. With over twenty years of research, Esslinger, author of Alcatraz: Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years, has salvaged and compiled an extraordinary collection of inmates’ letters, many never before published.
Letters from Alcatraz features an impressive collection of original correspondence from inmates both on-and-off the Rock. Their letters capture the true essence of life in prison, with fresh and historical insights to their sufferings and occasional triumphs. It is a finer example of history from one of America’s most historical treasures. This rare collection features many never before published personal letters and author interview material from James “Whitey” Bulger, Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Robert “Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud, Alvin Karpis, Henri Young, John & Clarence Anglin, Roy Gardner and numerous others. Also included are narratives on the Battle of Alcatraz and other harrowing escape attempts. The letters are all presented in their original form… revealing in their authenticity, representing their lives suspended in slow motion while serving time on the Rock and other prisons. They are confessionals of earnestness and probe their introspective thoughts. Sometimes deep, and sometimes they are almost too overwhelmingly honest in their descriptive accounts. Many represent their torn and textured histories in crime and the intricately layered stories of life at Alcatraz. Letters from Alcatraz is an epic exploration of a secret cloak and dagger culture once hidden behind a mythical curtain.
This book is much more than a mere exercise in myth busting. Paired with its contextual and intrinsic complexities, Letters from Alcatraz grants readers privileged access to the formidable confinement conditions endured by these inmates along with their compelling portraits, and a thorough overview of the rich history of Alcatraz Island. The depth of feeling in its story, its setting, its cast; these are their lives in prose and the stories of the forgotten…
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Cooking Made Simple: A Chef’s Guide To Kitchen Shortcuts,Hints, Secrets, And A Lifetime of Recipes
Mark Shew
Genre: Nonfiction | Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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A good chef makes good meals, a great chef makes great meals out of nothing… over the years I’ve learned how to get the most value, and the most meals, out of the least amount of food.. And now I will share my methods with you. Train your self to think ahead, plan how you can use this meal to make another, before you even cook it.Working in kitchens for more years than I want to remember, I’ve learned many shortcuts and tricks to save food and money. And now I’ll share them with you. We’ll start with some basic information and go from there The trick is to repurpose food, not just reheat, turn it into a new meal, and all it takes is a little imagination. In the following pages you will learn how to set up a kitchen, tricks of the trade, and how much of something to make.
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