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Series
Sweet magnolias volume 2
Language
English
Description
When her teenage daughter ends up in the hospital after starving herself, chef Dana Sue must embrace the power of forgiveness when her cheating husband, whom she kicked out, returns home to help her deal with their self-destructive child.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town...and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman as police...
Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school: a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Surveying Bella Vista's lush vineyards and abundant orchards, she decides that the only thing she's lacking is organic honey. The beekeeper, when he arrives, is a bit of a surprise. Isabel wasn't expecting someone so ruggedly...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter--starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. --Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
The Glass Kitchen is a delicious novel, a tempestuous story of a woman washed up on the shores of Manhattan who discovers that a kitchen - like an island - can be a refuge, if only she has the courage to give in to the pull of love, the power of forgiveness, and accept the complications of what it means to be family.
Author
Series
Below stairs mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian London Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiques are disappearing not only from the extravagant...
Author
Series
Skinny bitch volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows vegan chef Clem's efforts to run her restaurant while planning her wedding, an effort challenged by her future mother-in-law's fancy tastes, her fiancé's distant behavior, and her friend's engagement to a reality star.
Author
Series
Bibliophile mystery volume 7
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Brooklyn and Savannah investigate when a friend is found dead after receiving an antique cookbook with weird symbols and unreadable notes written in the margins.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Preparing to start over in idyllic Provence, France, after learning she is pregnant, Anna and her easygoing musician partner, Tobias, embark on an unexpected journey of the heart when their daughter is born with severe disabilities, a situation that is further complicated by a rickety home, eccentric neighbors, and frequent trips to the hospital.
Author
Series
Lucky Harbor novel volume 8
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan returns home to help her grandmother run her bakery, but finds herself distracted by her best friend, Jack Harper.
14) Foreign éclairs
Author
Series
White House chef mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Things are about to really heat up for Ollie. News of a bombing and attempted breakout at a federal prison reveals that the brother of a terrorist she helped defeat is back with a vengeance. And after she gets mugged on her way home from work, the Secret Service won’t leave her side, fearing she is now a target.
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Series
Potluck Catering Club volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger's stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion...
17) Blood rubies
Author
Series
Josie Prescott antiques mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ana Yartsin is on the verge of becoming a celebrity chef. Her custom Faberge egg-shaped cakes have brought her national attention, as has the story behind the cakes: her family owns the spectacular Faberge spring egg snow globe, a magnificent example of the master craftsman's work that includes five ruby-red tulips. As she prepares to be filmed for a reality TV show about the launch of her bakery in Rocky Point, New Hampshire, Ana hires antiques...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude Redenbacher. Instead all she inherits is the widow's hostile hissing tabby, Lovey, and a vintage ambulance, restored by Gertrude's late husband. As her dream crumbles, Winnie makes her final delivery - a peach pie to an elderly widower. But she finds Bart Wagner lying on his kitchen floor,...
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Series
Mure Island volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Years ago Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up - and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious...and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers - all strapping,...
Author
Series
Mure Island volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Flora MacKenzie traded her glum career in London for the remote Scottish island of Mure, she never dreamed that Joel--her difficult, adorable boss--would follow. Yet now, not only has Flora been reunited with her family and opened a charming café by the sea, but she and Joel are taking their first faltering steps into romance. With Joel away on business in New York, Flora is preparing for the next stage in her life. And that would be...? Love?...
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