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Island of Mure novels volume 1
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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,...
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth...
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©2015.
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In downtown Milwaukee, Lou works tirelessly to make her struggling French restaurant, Luella's a success. She cheerfully balances her demanding work and even more demanding fiance until she finds him with an intern. British transplant Al stays employed and entertained by writing scathing restaurant reviews under a pseudonym. An anonymous tip sends him to Luella's on the worst day of Lou's life. After his review runs, the two meet in a pub and Lou...
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"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...
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Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students' lives.
6) Forever Odd
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Odd Thomas novels volume 2
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English
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A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared and the worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents, to communicate with the dead, to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body: he encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning and spirals into a vortex of terror. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and...
8) Harvest moon
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Virgin River volume 15
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English
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Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack...
9) Just a taste
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New York Blades volume 7
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GALE Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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When Vivi Robitaille opens a new French bistro across the street from widower Anthony Dante's Italian restaurant, the professional competition between them soon ignites into a passionate attraction.
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"Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her regulars, and she takes great pleasure in knowing exactly what's "the usual." But her life is soon shaken when she discovers she and her free-spirited, younger sister Kit stand to inherit the home and land of the town's beloved cake lady, Peggy Johnson. Kit, an aspiring--and broke--filmmaker thinks her problems...
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[2018]
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"An uplifting Christmas tale, set in the Alaskan wilderness, about finding love where it's least expected...Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man,...
12) Dead heat
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Max Moreton is a rising culinary star and his Newmarket restaurant, The Hay Net, has brought him great acclaim and a widening circle of admirers. But when nearly all the guests who enjoyed one of his meals at a private catered affair fall victim to severe food poisoning, his kitchen is shuttered and his reputation shattered. Scrambling to meet his next obligation, an exclusive luncheon for forty American sponsors of the year's first classic race at...
13) The chef
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Caleb Rooney volume 1
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Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
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Pizza lovers mysteries volume 1
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[2009]
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Not too much happens in the sleepy little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina - which is fine with pizza-purveyor extraordinaire Eleanor Swift. The spunky owner of A Slice of Delight is trying to mend her broken heart and could use a little quiet time. But when a late night delivery customer turns up dead, she's in for just the opposite in this delicious mystery series debut, featuring pizza as the prima character.
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Eugenia Potter mysteries volume 5
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G.K. Hall
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[1999]
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English
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When PI Eugenia "Genia" Potter, the 60-something Arizona rancher, visits the Medicine Wheel Archaeological Camp near Cortez, Colorado, trouble begins to brew after a bus load of youngsters disappears and a pair of visitors to the camp mysteriously turn up dead. Eugenia becomes involved in the hunt for a killer, suspecting one of the hikers. Lots of Indian lore.
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White House chef mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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What's worse than a guest not liking your food? A guest dropping dead from it. When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies after eating dinner at the White House, the Secret Service is scrutinizing Chef Olivia Paras and her staff and picking apart her kitchen. The timing couldn't be worse. With her family visiting, and the White House's big Easter celebration to prepare for, Ollie has no choice but to find the real culprit - before she cracks under pressure....
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Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in the kitchen and rewarded far over and above even white...
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When Olivia Rawlings, Boston pastry chef extraordinaire, sets not only her flambé dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to Vermont stay with her best friend, Hannah, who lives in a town famous for Bag Balm and contra dancing. Since her previous post at the exclusive Boston club has probably also gone up in smoke, Olivia gratefully accepts a job at the Sugar Maple Inn, not realizing at first that she's been hired to help the cantankerous...
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Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
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©2015.
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English
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The woman who made him smile again... Housekeeper Jo Anderson gets the shock of her life when she meets her new boss! Six months ago millionaire Mac MacCallum was a charismatic celebrity chef -- now he's scarred and reclusive... The last thing Mac wants is a woman determined to make him confront his demons -- especially when Jo clearly has her own! Why else would someone so full of beauty and zest for life feel like the plainest woman in Australia?...
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White House chef mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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No way is White House Executive Chef Olivia Paras handing over a suspicious box of barbecue chicken wings to Abigail and Josh Hyden, children of the country's new commander in chief and her new boss, with no clue as to who provided the culinary gift. With the First Lady giving her the cold shoulder for her decision and the family's personal chef being brought in, Ollie starts to fear for her job. But when it turns out that the chicken was poisoned,...
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