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Take one out-of-work pastry chef ...
Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She's getting married, she's baking her own wedding cake, and she's leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiancé playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks.
Add a whole lot of trouble ...
Needless to say, the wedding is off. Adding insult to injury, her fiancé slaps a restraining order on her. When he's found...
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Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak's beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.
Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them-sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff-left as soon as they could....
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Perdita Dylan, an organic vegetable gardener, has learned to cherish her independence, but the new life she has built for herself since her divorce ten years earlier is suddenly on shaky ground when her business brings her ex-husband, now a celebrity chef, back into her life.
4) Odd hours
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef in New York City, becomes a suspect in a murder case when an executive producer he had been at odds with dies after eating a dish from his restaurant; after the Manhattan district attorney shuts him down, Blessing becomes a sleuth, running into unsavory characters at every turn.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Cass's mom is kidnapped by the evil dessert chef, Señor Hugo, who requests the legendary tuning fork as ransom, leading Cass and Max-Ernest to try finding the magical instrument in time.
10) Delicious
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Joseph Tanumafili's family-owned food-service business in Honolulu has been the only game in town for years. But when competing caterers from Las Vegas arrive to accommodate the cast and crew of a film shoot, the battle for paradise begins. As far as Joseph and his hotheaded Samoan uncle are concerned, no mainlanders are going to muscle in on native territory.
Lines are drawn and everyone's taking a side: a gay TV producer on romantic rebound; his...
12) Odd Thomas
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
14) On the line
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Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
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After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with her large extended Italian American family, who believe that the solutions to life's problems involve food. And in the midst of her high-energy, stress-inducing...
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