I wasn’t expecting beekeeping to be such a heartbreaking experience. We have now lost our second hive this year. We have a wonderful mentor that has been supplying us with fresh new colonies, and he assured us last night, while were were picking up a swarm he had captured, that losing hives was all part of beekeeping and not to worry. We are now on colony number four, but we only have two colonies. The new swarm we got last night is huge and the queen looks beautiful he said. I have high hopes for this new colony. Swarming season is still going on for another month, so we might get another colony this Spring. If we ever have a Spring. That would be a nice thing to lift my spirits a bit. Might be a thought for me to stop naming the queens so I don’t get so attached. With a few modifications we made to the bee boxes I am hoping to move forward with a bit more success.
Meant for Love (Gansett Island Series Book 10)
by Marie Force
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Romance
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She’s waited a long time for her second chance at love…
The Gansett Island Series, Book 10
A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!
It’s been twelve years since Jenny Wilks lost her fiancé in the 9/11 attacks in New York City. Since then she’s been floundering, trying to find her way. Taking the job as lighthouse keeper on Gansett Island was the best thing she could’ve done for herself. On the island she’s found amazing friends and a wonderful new life. There’s only one thing missing and that’s romance. She’s recently asked her new friends to fix her up with some of the island’s more eligible men. While her friends are busy arranging dates for her, Alex Martinez comes to cut the grass at the lighthouse.
He’s given up everything to come home to Gansett to care for his ailing mother…
Alex has gone from cultivating orchids at the US Botanic Garden in Washington to cutting grass on Gansett, like he did as a teenager. Running the family business with his brother while managing their mother’s dementia requires Alex’s undivided attention until a sexy lighthouse keeper shows him there’s much more to life than work and endless obligation.
During a scorching summer heat wave on Gansett, Jenny and Alex take comfort in each other, and what begins as a hot summer fling quickly becomes something much more lasting. But will it hold up beyond the heat wave when real life intrudes on their sexy interlude?
Catch up with many of your favorite characters from past Gansett Island books in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling McCarthys of Gansett Island Series!
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ON Fire (An Ozzie Novak Thriller, Book 5) (Redemption Thriller Series 17)
by John W. Mefford
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Rainmakers rule…
But nothing impacts a man like two bullets in the back of the head.
A beautiful, ambitious woman is murdered. The person charged? One of the most powerful deal-makers in the world.
Ozzie is pulled in to help prove the egomaniac’s innocence. Early on, the evidence seems irrefutable — until it isn’t. Could who this man knows determine who lives and who dies?
Forced to make a deal with the devil, Ozzie must determine how to out-think the king of rainmakers. And that’s when Ozzie realizes this isn’t just a one-lane game.
Ozzie flexes his own power of persuasion to fight through the haze of threats and outright danger. With everything on line, Ozzie’s instincts take him to the brink of death.
In the end, innocent people will die. Can Ozzie save his family from something he can’t see?
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My Grape Year (Grape Series Book 1)
by Laura Bradbury
Genre: Travel | Biographies & Memoirs
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At the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgundy, France, for a year’s exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of North America. With a head full of dreams and a powerful desire to please, Laura quickly adapts to Burgundian life, learning crucial skills such as the fine art of winetasting and how to savor snails.
However, the charming young men of the region mean Laura soon runs afoul of the rules, particularly the no-dating edict. Romantic afternoons in Dijon, early morning pain au chocolat runs, and long walks in the vineyards are wondrous but also present Laura with a conundrum: How can she keep her hosts happy while still managing to follow her heart? Follow along on Laura’s journey to I’amour in My Grape Year.
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Witch Way to Mintwood (Witch of Mintwood Book 1)
by Addison Creek
Genre: Mystery | Women’s Fiction
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House falling down? Check. Pet sitting job with annoying clients? Check. Ability to speak to ghosts, which has the unfortunate side effect of having to listen to what they say back? Double check! Hot high school crush still in town being all successful and stuff while you protest his building projects? All kinds of checks! Did anyone say Witch of Mintwood? Yup! Just add murder and this will be a week to remember!
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Texas Kingdoms
by Robert Broomall
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Westerns | Action & Adventure
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“Texas Kingdoms” is the 30-year story of two men, a woman, and a town.
Will Stewart and Chance Evans come to Texas in 1851, on their way to the California gold fields. Will is poor and determined to make something of himself; Chance is a gambler, determined to separate fools from their money. The two men are attacked by Comanches, and Will is so badly wounded that he can travel no further. He and Chance are forced to winter where they are, and by the time spring comes, they’ve decided to stay in Texas and make their fortunes there. Will painstakingly begins to catch the wild cattle that roam the brush, while Chance sets up a tent by the road where he sells whiskey to travelers and takes their money at cards.
Settlers arrive, among them the beautiful Hope Sommerville. Will and Chance both fall in love with Hope, who will get pregnant by one man and marry the other. As the years pass, Will’s handful of cows becomes a cattle empire, and Chance’s tent becomes Kingdom, wildest town on the Great Western Trail. Will, Chance, and Hope face Indian attacks, war, the loss of children, and the lawlessness of the post-Civil War West. Will’s love for Hope drives him to do great things, while Chance’s love casts him into a vortex of self-destruction and crime, and Hope learns what true love really means. Then one shocking act threatens to destroy them all.
Spanning the period from the Comanche wars to the coming of the railroad and the end of the great cattle drives, “Texas Kingdoms” is a saga of love and friendship and the limits to which people will go for each one.
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