It’s funny – the author notes in the acknowledgements that she wasn’t sure a book about counterfeiting was going to be that interesting, but I have not read a book that had me quite on the edge of my seat as this one did in a while. Beka Cooper’s no longer a trainee in the […]
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New month, new knitting. I get to do socks because my friend K requested a new pair. (I’m at peak sock myself – I’ll only allow myself to make more if they’re for someone else. Which is a bummer, because I love making them.) This is Cookie A’s Twisted Flower, in Tess’ Designer
Phelan Cle is back looking for his father. Jonah wanders- looking for lost treasures. He’s even got the Princess Beatrice (youngest daughter of the king) working on the crew that helps him dig things up around the capital city of Cearlu. Phelan’s never known what Jonah’s been searching for. Phelan himself is in his last
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This is an omnibus of three books of mostly short stories about Lord Darcy, the chief investigator for Prince Richard, Duke of Normandy, in an alternate world where King Richard the Lion-Heart survived the cross bow attack that killed him in our world. His family is still in charge of an Angevin empire that includes
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Why so many pictures of the Northern Blazing Star? The sand plain this preserve is a part of has the largest population of this species in the world, so it seemed only fitting.
Weekly Wildflowers – Kennebunk Plains Preserve, Kennebunk, ME Read More »
Today’s walk was the Kennebunk Plains Preserve, whose major claim to fame is that it’s in the sand plain that’s home to the largest single population of Northern Blazing Star (Liatris novae-angliae) in the world. There’s also pine barrens, and wild blueberries to pick (in August at least) – a good walk all around.
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