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41) The look of love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donavan is on cake-creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous--where nip and tuck and murder are offered in equal measures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Willow Ridge, Missouri, widowed Miriam Lanz is relentlessly pursued by Amish Bishop Knepp in courtship, while running her beloved cafe. When a handsome but rootless blacksmith comes to town, she must listen to God and her heart to find the happiness she longs for.
44) Down home cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asked where he'd be at this point in life, Cain Donnelly would have said anywhere but Copper Ridge, Oregon, living with his estranged brothers. But since his wife abandoned them, both he and his daughter, Violet, are in need of a fresh start, so he's back to claim his share of the family ranch. Local baker Alison Davis is a delicious temptation, but she's also his daughter's mentor and new boss. That makes her off-limits...until she offers a no-strings...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 10 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British amateur bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Signature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
Author
Language
English
Description
Life is never really quiet for Hannah. After all, her mother's wedding is a little over a month away and guess who Delores put in charge of the planning? Yet just when Hannah believes her biggest challenge will be whether to use buttercream or fondant for the wedding cake, she accidentally hits a stranger with her cookie truck while driving down a winding country road in a raging thunderstorm. Hannah is wracked with guilt, and things get even worse...
Author
Language
English
Description
Early summer brings plenty of work for baker Hannah Swensen, even before Mayor Bascomb's wife drops by The Cookie Jar to place an order for her charity event...for eleven hundred cookies! And Hannah almost flips when her business partner, Lisa, suggests setting up an apple turnover stand. But she places her faith in Lisa and agrees to be a magician's assistant in the fundraiser's talent show... The only snag is the show's host, college professor Bradford...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He stood in the doorway, overweight, depressed, nearly homeless. He was a pug named Teddy Roosevelt, and he was Brydie Benson's new full-time, four-legged housemate. True, Teddy was a little bit gassy, a little bit grumpy, but Brydie figured he was no worse than her ex-husband and probably a whole lot more faithful. Plus, he was part of the deal: pet-sit Teddy and live in a lovely home rent-free. Navigating her newly single world wasn't easy, but...
Author
Language
English
Description
Content with her life on a tiny island off the southern coast of England, bakery owner Polly juggles a business-threatening rivalry, her boyfriend's secrets, and the arrival of a newcomer, a widow seeking a fresh start who forces Polly to reconsider her life choices.
50) Breach of crust
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Socialite Beatrice Burbank hires Ella Mae to teach the tasty tricks of her trade to the members of the Camellia Club, but when Bea's body is found floating in Lake Havenwood Ella Mae must find the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie's doorstep in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger. Sixty years...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a horrid step-mother, Alice struggles to find a place where she belongs. Only baking--the scent of cinnamon and citrus and the feel of butter and flour between her fingers--brings a comforting sense of home. So it seems natural that when she finally decides to return to Haworth, Alice turns to baking again, taking over a...
53) Size matters
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever (Hachette Book Group)
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 318 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Leah Martin has spent her life trying to avoid temptation. But she's sick of low-fat snacks, counting calories, and her hyper-critical mom. Fortunately, her popular new bakery keeps her good and distracted. But there aren't enough éclairs in the world to distract Leah from the hotness that is Sam Cooper--or the fact that he justntold her mother that they're engaged...which is a big, fat lie." -- Page [4] cover.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.'s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds, judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
55) Leopard's fury
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With her own bakery in San Antonio, Evangeline Tregre made a new life far from the brutal lair of shifters she was born into. Though she is all too aware of her leopard-shifter blood, she has kept secret the wild animal stirring inside her. That is until Alonzo Massi walks into her bakery. The powerful shifter is as irresistible as he is terrifying, but his icy demeanor tells her to keep her distance. Alonzo knows better than to let himself get involved...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in Hannah's celebrated strawberry shortcake, Lake Eden's sweet ride to fame turns very sour indeed. Between perfecting her Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie and Chocolate Crunchies, Hannah's snooping into the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Lake Eden, Minnesota, may have had their doubts, but at long last, Hannah Swensen is getting married! Hannah is thrilled to be marrying Ross Barton, her college crush. And her excitement only grows when she learns he'll be able to join her on her trip to New York City for the Food Channel's dessert chef contest. They get a taste of the Big Apple before Hannah wins the Hometown Challenge and the producers bring all the contestants to Lake...
58) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amateur British bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, with each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Signature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
60) Once upon a lie
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013, 2014.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity for Maeve that's absolutely infuriating. Her father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin Sean Donovan has been found dead, sitting in his car in...