#MayDay May in Old English was Þrimilce-mōnaþ 'Month of Three Milkings' when the beasts were so well fed they could be milked three times a day. (All was seasonal and dairy beasts were 'dry' over winter.)
[Image is from a 16th-C woodcut but I can find no further info]

For Those Who Dare:
East Berlin, 1961: A Cold War escape that’s a roller coaster ride of twists and turns
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TREASURED LOVE
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Young Millie and Jonathan Gibbs undertake a dangerous 50-mile journey on foot across the desolate Devon countryside to escape the clutches of a woman set on bitter revenge.
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The Coffee Pot Book Club presents:

🌟London Tales by Tim Walker🌟

Discover a fascinating short story collection that takes you on a journey of London through the centuries!
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Tim Walker

Shining a bright 🌺Springtime Spotlight🌺 on

🌟Longsword's Lady by J.P. Reedman🌟

Discover an intriguing tale of Lady Ela's survival in the turbulent reigns of the Lionheart & King John!

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Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheMonth :

😎Secret Meetings by J.G. Harlond😎

Discover an intriguing 5* 'wartime mystery with an intricate web of characters and secrets'!
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JG Harlond

The Monk Who Cast A Spell... Book 1 in the Durstan series. 💜 #Vikings #Love #Beltane #Magic in Dark Age Britain. Click the link... for Amazon near you bookgoodies.com/a/B08Q7DTFYZ 99p/99c for a limited time only! 💜 #KindleUnlimited #HistoricalFiction for #booklovers now ❤️💜

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•✧✧•The Sea's Edge
(The Atheling Chronicles, Book 4)
By Garth Pettersen •✧✧•

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Garth Pettersen

WEST OF SANTILLANE: The incredible, untold story of Julia Hancock. A girl who loved two men--one as her husband, the other like a brother. And those men were Lewis & Clark.
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What was life like for the French émigrés who fled the threat of the guillotine and moved to England? Read my latest #blogpost post and discover the inspiration for Gabrielle, the heroine of my forthcoming novel, An Adventurer's Contract. #History

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Happy Beltane! There's not a better time to read The Beltane Choice.
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A gifted woman artist. A ruthless Scottish privateer. And an audacious plan that throws them together—with dangerous consequences.

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'Jenny is a wonderful storyteller. Each one has an engrossing plot and wonderfully described characters and scenery. I certainly can’t put it down a real page turner.'
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On May Day, the old feast of Beltaine, young Edward IV secretly married an older Lancastrian widow, Elizabeth Woodville, at the Woodville home of Grafton. His penchants for marrying in secret would return to haunt him... mybook.to/EleanorTalbot
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The Coffee Pot Book Club presents:

🌟A New Page by Jennifer C. Wilson🌟

'A lovely collection of short stories and poems...'

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Jennifer C. Wilson: Historical fiction with spirit

Welcome to our 🥳Release Day Book Blast🥳 for

༻*·Snarling Wolf·*༺
by David Fitz-Gerald!

Many congrats!

Check out our tour stops, all sharing the 4th novel in the Ghosts along the Oregon Trail series!

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'I loved every page of this story, and I would highly recommend this book.' #Review

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It's almost Beltane!
'The chapters alternate between Lorcan’s story line and Nara’s, so the reader goes back and forth between them as their stories develop to interweave in Book 1.'
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