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Let Them Eat Cake

by Sandra Byrd

Lexi Stuart is at a critical crossroads. She’s done with college but still living at home, ready to launch a career but unable to find a job, and solidly stalled between boyfriends. ...

Sunshine

by Robin McKinley

There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.

For bakery owner Sophie Mayfield, life is getting sweeter by the minute. She's managed to keep her family's cherished business from being acquired by mega-grocery-chain Fulton Foods. And her new employee Eliot Wright is as appealing—and oh-so-chocolate-fine—as he is hardworking and talented. But then Sophie discovers that Eliot isn't exactly who he says he is. And she's sure he's hungry for only one thing: her... (more)

Rich Man Poor Man

by Irwin Shaw

A timeless classic of America in the years beginning with dancing in the streets at the end of World War II by children of immigrants, to riots in the streets by their children, the action moves from Greenwich Village to Hollywood with side-trips to the Mediterranean, etc.

Tartine

by Elisabeth M. Prueitt, Chad Robertson, France Ruffenach

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that instantly says "classic." This is one of them. Acclaimed pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt and master baker Chad Robertson share not only their fabulous recipes, but also the secrets and expertise that transform a delicious homemade treat into a great one. It's no wonder there are lines out the door of Elisabeth and Chad's acclaimed Tartine Bakery. It's been written... (more)

Baker Cat

by Posy Simmonds

Nominated for the coveted Kate Greenaway Medal, this ingenious tale of triumph over adversity is Posy Simmonds at her absolute best. All day long, the baker’s cat toils in the bakery—mixing dough, baking bread, sweeping up—and all night long, he’s expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn’t catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won’t get any food. Too exhausted to chase after... (more)

The Flying Bed

by Nancy Willard

Newbery Medalist Nancy Willard spins an original fairy tale about a poor baker who finds a beautiful bed for his wife in a strange new shop--for free! Perhaps his bad luck has turned? But there are more wonders in store, for the bed has magical powers. That night, the couple flies across the heavens to meet a master baker who gives them some magic yeast that will make them the best--and richest--bakery in town!... (more)

The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

by Zachary Y. Schat

This is the first book ever to explain everything needed to work through the thicket of rules, procedures, and tasks for starting and running a prosperous retail or wholesale bakery. It gets going with "a day at the bakery," then takes up baking and business skills, start-up costs, sources of financing, legal and tax matters, local planning and heatlh regulations, retail and kitchen layout and design,... (more)

Just Desserts

by Barbara Bretton

Hayley Goldstein has been offered the chance of a lifetime: to bake a cake for a world-famous rock star. But she's shocked to discover that she's actually the aging rocker's long-lost daughter. With her world turned upside down, Hayley will need help letting down her guard and hanging onto the things that matter most. And the rocker's lawyer, Finn Rafferty, may just be the man for the job.

All That Matters

by Stef Ann Holm

When a megastore grocery chain threatens to shut down the new boutique bakery Chloe Lawson's worked so hard to establish, she's furious. Her life may not be picture-perfect, but her custom cakes and pastries are becoming the talk of Boise, and she'd like to keep it that way. Chloe needs a champion, and handsome, widowed John Moretti turns out to be it. A high-powered lawyer whose two rebellious teenagers are the... (more)

Gingerbread Friends

by Jan Brett

That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he’ll never forget. Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares and doesn’t say a word, like all the other sweet treats he tries to meet. Discouraged, the Gingerbread Baby runs home, chased by a long line of hungry... (more)

And Shadows Have Their Ending (Oberon)

by P. G. Forte

The last two years have not been kind to Seth Cavanaugh. But, he’s suffered and grown and he finally feels ready to put his troubled past behind him. So, doesn’t it just figure that the girl who caused all the trouble in the first place should pick now to return and cause him even more torment? Deirdre Delaney Shelton-Cooper has spent the past two years trying to forget the events that marked her first visit to... (more)

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