Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run--until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the Crowns' fearless leader, Gnat: one of their very own will...

Most families have a favorite recipe or two, handed down through generations. The Holloway women are a little different. Emma Holloway, like her grandmother before her, bakes wishes into her delicious cupcakes, granting the recipient comfort, sweet dreams, or any number of good things. It's a strange gift, but it brings only happiness. Until gorgeous, smooth-talking newcomer Hunter Kane strolls into her shop, Fairy Cakes--and Emma makes the mistake...

After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

"When it comes to relationships, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say 'Bah, humbug.' The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn't exactly brimming with prospects, and anyway, Kate's found fulfillment in her career as a designer, and in her delicious side job baking for her old friend Matt's neighborhood café. But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to help singles find love before the holidays. Twenty-three...

After a cupcake-flinging fiasco at a photo shoot for a local magazine, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura agree to make amends by hosting a weeklong corporate boot camp at Fairy Tale Cupcakes. A team-building week of making cupcakes for charity is the brainchild of billionaire Ian Hannigan, new owner of the lifestyle magazine. But when the magazine's creative director is found murdered outside the bakery, Mel and Angie have a new team-building exercise....

"March Hare wants to be the fastest and furriest race car driver around. In this high-speed adventure, his sister, April Hare, has opened a bakery business and enlists March and Hammond the Pig to make her first delivery. Between March's mad obsession with speed and Hammond's appetite, April will have her hands full making sure her apple tarts arrive on time--and in one piece!" -- Page [4] cover.

A young girl visits her uncle's bakery with her mother and together they use all their senses to enjoy their visit.

"YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know. Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what's buried in her backyard? Everyone has...

Arnie knows all the doughnuts in the bakery, but he and the others are puzzled by the giant round maybe-doughnut (or maybe not doughnut) that Mr. Baker Man has just put on display.

"When an organic farm causes rents to skyrocket at the Valley Green Farmer's Market, Fern Blauch's baked goods stand is driven to the edge of eviction...until a mysterious temporary reprieve. Fern is confused when she discovers the benefactor is barbecued chicken stand owner--and her longtime crush--Gideon Hartzler. She's grateful, but pridefully tells him she intends to pay him back. If only she can find a new place to sell her wares... To stay competitive,...