The rain finally stopped for more than a minute, so I was able to spend a good few hours in the garden cleaning up the dead and very soggy leaves. GROSS! Everything was so mushy. I was trying to follow the method of leaving everything through winter so the bugs and birds have shelter and food, but the mess was keeping me out of the backyard. I decided to be selfish and clean it up so I could enjoy it as well. I filled a huge yard waste bin to the top. Oddly enough the yard doesn’t look much different. That’s annoying. What is cool is just how many ladybugs and caterpillars I found. They were everywhere! I was careful not to disturb them too much and just worked around them. I can see others signs of life waking up in the flowerbeds. The tulips, daffodils and crocus are already peaking their heads out of the ground hinting that Spring is not that far off. It felt good to get my hands dirty in the garden again. There is not much more I can do but wait and see what pops its head out over the next few months.
A Rancher’s Heart (The Stones of Heart Falls Book 1)
by Vivian Arend
(2,707 Reviews)
Genre: Sagas | Romance
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This cowboy has given up on love, but the new nanny might just make him change his mind.
First in series from New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend.
**A standalone romance novel!!**
Caleb Stone is wearing too many hats and it’s making him crankier than usual. He’s a cowboy, a father, and the head of his large family — and has been since tragedy claimed his parents over ten years ago. The ranch is struggling, but it’s the title of single dad that’s got him tangled up in knots. He needs a full-time, live-in nanny at the Silver Stone homestead in Heart Falls, Alberta, to help with his two little girls, but the woman about to arrive on his doorstep? Tantalizing, tempting, and trouble with capital T’s.
Tamara Coleman doesn’t regret the choices that led to losing her job, but she definitely needs a fresh start. When a friend recommends her for a nanny position in a new town, she swears this time it’ll be different. No more acting on impulse — except sexy, gruff Caleb is exactly the kind of man who pushes all her buttons. And what’s more, it’s so much fun to push his in return. Sparks fly between Tamara and her gorgeous boss, but she can’t risk her position, and he doesn’t dare risk his heart.
With two people fighting their true natures, something’s going to give. Luckily, there’s more than one way to capture a rancher’s heart.
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Legend of Mermaid Cliff: (The Awakening Trilogy Book 1)
by Brandon Rohrbaugh
(56 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Fantasy | Children’s eBooks
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After his crush’s mysterious death, a teen boy uncovers century-old dark secrets in his small town.
One of Us Is Lying meets Stephen King’s IT.
Sixteen-year-old Mark Parker is devastated when he learns that his high school crush, Veronica McBride, has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff in their small beach town of Rockport. As the last person seen with the ill-fated girl, the town becomes suspicious of Mark and he swears to find the truth — but in doing so, he uncovers unearthly and evil secrets his town has been harboring for a century.
Until Veronica McBride and her family moved to the small beach town of Rockport, its citizens were all from the original bloodlines of the town dating back to it’s founding in 1917 — the same year the suicides began and the legend of Mermaid Cliff was born. With a suicide mysteriously happening every twenty-five years, the legend went that a mermaid lured people to the edge of the cliff, and they were in such awe of her that they walked right over the edge, falling to their death. But legends are stuff of lore… or so Mark believed.
Mark thought he walked Veronica home after the big party the night before, but he can’t be sure since he partied a little too much. When snarky classmates accuse Mark of having something to do with Veronica’s death, his best friend Jason assures him that he saw those classmates — whom he calls the Seven — at the entrance of Mermaid Cliff that night as he was driving home. Trouble is, the Seven includes Mark’s older brother, Charles. When the FBI’s Agent Amelia Taylor arrives, it’s confirmed that Veronica’s death was a homicide, and Mark, along with Jason, is determined to find out who’s responsible.
As Mark starts asking around, he’s collecting more questions than answers. His mother claims she was home but wasn’t. Old Man McGinty, who found Veronica’s body on the beach, has piles of newspaper clippings of the legend’s tragedies… along with a charm from Veronica’s bracelet. Even the FBI agent has a strange connection to the town through her own tragic circumstances.
“Don’t believe everything people tell you, boy,” the old man tells Mark. “Everything in this town is connected in a way you or I will never fully understand… ”
Jason and Mark come to realize that their town is full of dark secrets, and their poking around is unveiling them one by one. “Loyalty. We may be connected to the rest of this world by land, but we have our own traditions and secrets we keep to ourselves,” his mom said mysteriously. “Some secrets are better kept secret… ” Soon, Mark will learn of his own role in his town’s terrifying evils — and his destiny to stop it and put the legend to rest.
The debut book in The Awakening trilogy.
For fans of The Mortal Instruments, Twilight, and Stephen King’s IT.
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Farm to Trouble (Farm to Table Mysteries Book 1)
by Amanda Flower
(660 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery
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First in a new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower!
Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady investor is a lot to handle… but a murderer on the loose is the final straw!
Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation — complete with a farm-to-table café — is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found dead among the flowers just hours after the contract is signed. Everyone knows her father had a grudge against the investor, and word travels fast in a small town…
Now, Shiloh must clear her family’s name and track down the real killer before her organic farm dreams wilt before her very eyes. But with her father trying to stop any progress on his land, her cousin belittling her every effort, the farmhouse falling down around her, and the whole town believing her family at fault, Shiloh’s small town troubles are growing much faster than her crops. She’ll have to trust her own investigation or risk all her dreams drying up before they begin.
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The Drunken Weed: Book 1 of ‘The Irrelevant One’ Saga
by E. D. Robson
(58 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction | Mythology & Folk Tales | Fantasy
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Humor, romance and adventure as Gesh, the Drunken Weed, a Mesopotamian Goddess and her (unknown to him) brother-in-law, John, the Irrelevant One, a call centre worker, embark on a time travel adventure across the multiverse following her unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him.
Along the way they meet Greek and Norse gods, Roman invaders, Neanderthals, a druid and an Anglo-Saxon shield maiden among others. Gesh discovers an identical version of herself on an alternative Mars and gives birth to twins while John marries a second wife (unbeknown to his first), Gesh’s best friend, Pandora of Greek myth fame in Napoleonic England.
The first book of the light hearted ‘Irrelevant One Saga’.
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Dead Man Running
by Theresa Ragan
(428 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Foreign Languages
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NYT bestselling author Theresa Ragan’s newest suspense, DEAD MAN RUNNING, is set in motion when an accused murderer escapes prison in a body bag and sets out to prove his innocence.
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Operation Dragoon: The History of the Allied Invasion of Southern France after D-Day
by Charles River Editors
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Genre: History | Foreign Languages
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By the end of D-Day, the Allies had managed to successfully land 170,000 men, including over 75,000 on the British and Canadian beaches, 57,000 on the American beaches, and over 24,000 airborne troops. Thanks to Allied deception, the German army had failed to react to prevent the Allies from making the most of their landings. Just one division, the Hitlerjugend, would arrive the following day. Despite a fearsome and bloody day, the majority of the Allied forces had held their nerve, and most importantly, achieved their objectives. This ensured Operation Overlord was ultimately successful, and victory in Europe would be achieved within less than a year.
Churchill was not overstating the achievements of the invasionwhen he described the plan “the greatest thing we have ever attempted”. The greatest armada the world had ever seen had landed 170,000 soldiers on the heavily defended beaches of Normandy in just 24 hours. More remarkable was the fact that the operation was a success on every major level. Deception, tactical surprise and overwhelming force had contributed to the establishment of an adequate beachhead. Confusion and dissent had stopped the Germans massing for any great counterattack. The Atlantic Wall which Hitler had placed so much faith in had been breached, and the race to Paris was on.
While D-Day is one of the most famous events of the war, it is widely overlooked that about two months after the landings in Normandy, there was a second Allied landing in France. On August 15, 1944, a combined US-French force landed in southern France on the beaches of the Côte d’Azur as part of Operation Dragoon. In just over four weeks of fighting, the Allied landing led to the liberation of most of southern France and to one of the most audacious and successful Allied operations of World War II.
However, the planning that led to Operation Dragoon (originally named Operation Anvil) was anything but settled. The idea for a landing in the south of France had been raised by senior commanders as early as 1942, and at one time it was intended to be a concurrent operation with the Overlord landings in Normandy. However, the spectacular failure of the American landing at Anzio in Italy earlier in the year and an increase in the size of forces for Overlord meant there simply weren’t resources to spare for a second simultaneous landing in France. Thus, Operation Anvil was canceled.
The landings in Normandy and the campaign that followed were successful, but that very success brought its own problems. As the huge Allied armies advanced far beyond the original invasion beaches, providing them with critical supplies such as food, fuel, and ammunition became difficult. The farther they advanced into France, the more acute this problem became, and the failure to capture the port of Cherbourg on schedule made the situation worse.
As a result, despite disagreements at the highest levels (Churchill remained vehemently opposed to the operation), it was decided to resurrect Operation Anvil in mid-July 1944 with the prime objectives of securing the ports of Toulouse and Marseille.
With less than a month to complete the planning and preparation of a major amphibious operation, many on the Allied side were skeptical of the chances of success for this operation. However, the supply situation in northern France and growing political pressures within the Allies meant it simply had to go ahead. With that, on the morning of August 15, 1944, Allied troops began landing on the beaches of the Côte d’Azur. What followed remains a controversial part of the end of the war in Europe.
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