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Cherry Blueberry Spinach Smoothie with Honey

BlueSmokeFire February 27, 2024

I typically eat blueberries with a few big dallops of low-fat yogurt for breakfast. I've changed things up recently with smoothies. Smoothies are a great way to add anti-oxidants and a nutritional boost to your diet.Don't turn you nose up to the spinach, you'll never know it is in there

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Simple Rib Rub and Cook

BlueSmokeFire February 7, 2024

This rub is a great place to start if you’re new to the rib game. From this base rub you can add or remove ingredients in search of that perfect flavor profile.

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Blackened Halibut

BlueSmokeFire January 31, 2024

Fast prep and cook that delivers a delicious main course. You’ll spend more time waiting for the oven to heat than on anything else.

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WITHCHES OF DEATHWICK (DAYS OF DEATH BOOK 3) – Dzintra Sullivan

BlueSmokeFire January 29, 2024

Kaah Maah has found his home in Deadend. He has a job he loves, a community he feels part of, people he cares about… and Jodi.When he crosses paths with Abby Da’Tweet, head of the Da’Tweet flock of powerful witches, things start to go awry. Children start vanishing, and Rork, his goblin assistant and best friend, is being framed. Can he work out who is the puppet master before Rork pays the ultimate price?Or will it be a case of biting the hand that feeds him?

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HOW TO LOSE DEATH IN TEN DAYS – Dzintra Sullivan

BlueSmokeFire January 29, 2024

One, Two – Death is coming for you.
Three, Four – He escaped the portal door.
Five, Six – What’s in his bag of tricks?
Seven, Eight – Death can’t be late.
Nine, Ten – Or it’s the Armageddon.
Kaah Maah is the reaper. He wants to live a quiet life in the nowhere-special American town of “Deadend”. However, when a demon escapes the portal, it’s up to the reaper to locate him- and fast. He needs to capture him within ten days, otherwise, the demon is free to roam the earth forever.
As the dead bodies start to pile up, Kaah gets pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
Will the reaper get his demon?
Or will the world pay the price?
Ten days.
Tick, Tick, Tick.

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Book cover for Star Bound by Rex Burke. depicts a space view of a nebula,

STAR BOUND -Rex Burke

BlueSmokeFire January 29, 2024

A storm’s coming, and it’s time to go home. But home isn’t always where you think it is.

As rescue looms, the teenage castaways face new decisions and changing alliances. It’s not plain-sailing on New Earth either, where Captain Juno Washington faces a blatant challenge to her authority.

As the dangers increase and stories collide, everyone has a choice to make. Be part of something or strike out on your own? Make plans or break promises?

All the Odyssey Earth characters combine for one final, unforgettable adventure, as they look for a place to call home.

And one thing’s for sure. If you want a happy ending, you need to put your trust in the people you love.

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Book cover for Twin Landing by Rex Burke. Depicts a satellite with solar panels deployed.

TWIN LANDING – Rex Burke

BlueSmokeFire January 29, 2024

Typical. The colony ship, Odyssey Earth , travels fifty trillion miles without finding a habitable planet, and then two come along at once.

The mission is not exactly going to plan for the settlers of New Earth. In the aftermath of an accident that robbed them of their youngest crew-members, Captain Juno Washington and her second-in-command, Susannah, are contending with broken hearts and brittle feelings. Reeves, the AI, is feeling strangely out of sorts, the new security officer is behaving oddly, and the local goats have just gatecrashed the landing ceremony.

Things aren’t much better on the neighbouring twin planet, where the castaways are finding life hard without home comforts. Dana, Dervla, Manisha, Karlan, Bryson and Poole – six feisty teenagers with a nice line in condescension, eye rolls, and opinions about everything. And Jordan Booth, who just wants a hot shower and a quiet life.

When new arrivals threaten the mission, friends are separated and family ties tested. Meanwhile, as the twin planet starts to give up its secrets, Poole wants to go exploring. And Poole – everyone agrees – is an idiot who you wouldn’t let look after a hamster, so what could possibly go wrong there?

In the end, it all comes down to trust. Who’s on your side? Who’s got your back? And who’s coming to the rescue?

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SEA OF SOULS – N. C. Scrimgeour

BlueSmokeFire January 26, 2024

Dark be the water, and darker still the creatures that lurk within…

Free-spirited Isla Blackwood has never accepted the shackles of her family’s nobility. Instead, she sails the open waters, searching for belonging on the waves.

But when tragedy calls Isla home, she realises she can no longer escape the duty she’s been running from. Selkie raiders have been terrorising the island’s coasts, and when they strike at Blackwood Estate, Isla is forced to flee with her hot-headed brother and brooding swordmaster.

To avenge her family and reclaim her home, Isla will have to set aside old grudges and join forces with an exiled selkie searching for a lost pelt. The heirloom might be the key to stopping the bloody conflict—but only if they can steal it from the island’s most notorious selkie hunter, the Grand Admiral himself.

Caught between a promise to the brother she once left behind and an unlikely friendship with the selkie who should have been her enemy, Isla soon realises the open seas aren’t the only treacherous waters she’ll need to navigate.

As enemies close in on all sides, she must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie if she wants to save what’s left of her family—and find the belonging she’s been searching for.

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OBSIDIAN AWAKENING – Sienna Frost

BlueSmokeFire January 26, 2024

Sold for the price of a pig, trained into the most expensive male escort in the peninsula, Hasheem, the Silver Sparrow of Azalea, finds himself running from his hard-earned life of privilege when a woman decides to die in his room. Forced to flee into the most hostile territory belonging to deadly desert warriors, he is captured by Djari, the dutiful daughter of a tribe leader who offers him a choice between death and a lifetime of servitude. Raised from birth as the chosen one to end the conflict, Djari drags him screaming into the blood sport of war and politics, guided by the schemes of her oracle brother who continues to withhold the most important part of his vision.

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STARLIGHT JEWEL – E.L. Lyons

BlueSmokeFire January 18, 2024

The human city of Minalav is renowned for its lavish balls, where nobles bring wealth from distant lands to the Starlight Palace, to be romanced—and robbed—by the half-human hybrids who live below the city. The wealthy guests leave without their treasure, and with no memory of their evening—except the unforgettable feelings that bring them back, season after season. But the magic of Minalav is built on dark secrets and lies.

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Once There Were Heroes (A Time of Dragons, #1)

BlueSmokeFire January 16, 2024

THE GODS ARE DEAD.

IN THEIR ABSENCE, THERE CAN BE ONLY CHAOS. ONLY WAR.

AND THEY ARE NOT ALL THAT HAS FADED FROM THE WORLD OF VERDA… Once there were heroes. Brave men and women who showed their quality to be above the rest. Those whose deeds earned them the heart of a dragon . Those whose courage and strength resonated with the unborn, who, in their eggs, can wait thousands of years for a warrior worthy of them. These heroes rose up on young battlefields and defended the weak and oppressed…

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The End of the World: Rise of the After Lord

BlueSmokeFire January 16, 2024

In a broken future governed by the oppressive Technocrats and their parasitic technology, enslaved warrior Animkii’s mind is a battleground for control. After an act of sabotage shatters her bondage, she faces a dire mission: ridding herself of the invasive tech implanted inside her before it consumes her remaining humanity.

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ORPHAN PLANET – Rex Burke

BlueSmokeFire January 15, 2024

With Earth in crisis, humans are travelling deep into space. But humanity’s future just took a wrong turn.

A seventeen-year colony-ship voyage – a straight shot to a new planet. Handpicked, single-minded crew, and a thousand settlers in hypersleep. No children, no families, no fuss.

That was the plan, anyway.

Captain Juno Washington commands a ship of loners and oddballs. The teenagers of the Odyssey Earth didn’t ask to be born, and face an uncertain future. And Jordan Booth really didn’t want to be woken up early.

After an unexpected change of course, relationships are tested like never before. If they listen to advice, pull together and stop squabbling, they might just make it.

Yeah, right. Good luck with that.

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SPARK OF THE DIVINE – Louise Holland

BlueSmokeFire January 14, 2024

SAVE THE GODS. SAVE THEIR REALM.

As a Divine, Mae wields her strange gifts quietly as a mercenary—until a simple rescue job sees the crew uncover a plot to steal divinity from the gods themselves. When the god Mae serves is attacked, she must restore their power before the seven realms are thrown into chaos.

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The Rest To The Gods by Joshua Walker

BlueSmokeFire January 11, 2024

On the peak of the Mountain Pass, the Four-Front War takes its final breaths.

The walls are closing in.

The allies are dwindling.

The last front is on its knees.

The Rest to the Gods is a prequel novella in The Song of the Sleepers, an epic fantasy series by Australian fantasy author Joshua Walker.

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