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1) Harvest moon
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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...
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Bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright loves food, but it's her sister Savannah who became a chef. When Savannah's culinary superstar ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell invites her to his new restaurant's opening, she asks Brooklyn to restore a tattered cookbook as a present for him. Brooklyn thinks the book belongs in a museum. And shortly after receiving it, Baxter is found dead with Savannah is kneeling over him, bloody knife in hand.
3) Comfort food
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A celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment--and manages to spice up her own life at the same time.
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Halia Watkins has her hands full cooking, hosting, and keeping her boisterous young cousin from getting too sassy with the customers at Mahalia's Sweet Tea, the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. Having fast-talking entrepreneur Marcus Rand turn up in her kitchen is annoying; finding his dead body face-down on her ceramic tile after hours is far worse. To keep Sweet Tea out of the sordid spotlight, Halia will have to...
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"When an eating disorder threatens the life of chef Dana Sue Sullivan's teenage daughter, she has no choice but to bring Annie's cheating dad back to Serenity, South Carolina. She tells herself and her friends it's all about Annie, but the sad truth is she has a boatload of unresolved feelings of her own for Ronnie Sullivan. From the moment Ronnie hits town, there's no question about his intentions. He's there for his daughter, to be sure, but he...
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"Set in 1950s Louisiana, the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past"--
1950s Louisiana. Ginny Polk works as a prison cook and also prepares the last meals of those sentenced to execution. When she stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations.
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"When Mrs. Simmons offers her ancestral home in a contest, a fledgling chef and a big-hearted contractor think it's the answer to their dreams until she decides they should share the house. With Cole and the foster kids upstairs and PJ and the restaurant below, it's not just the house on the line, it's their hearts"--
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A novel about the real meaning of reconciliation - about how, in the aftermath of tragedy, life goes on and people still manage to find reasons to celebrate. Angel's kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda, where lives are transformed and connections are made, changing her life and the lives of all around her.
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Beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in damp and lovely County Mayo, sits the small, sheltered village of Ballinacroagh. To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh, a land of “crazed sheep and dizzying roads,” they might finally find a home.
From the kitchen of...
From the kitchen of...
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Westmoreland series volume 18
Silhouette desire volume 2000
(Brenda Streater).Westmoreland family novel
Silhouette desire volume 2000
(Brenda Streater).Westmoreland family novel
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He knew better than to lust after the hired help. But Ramsey Westmoreland's new cook was just so delectable...it was enough to make the Denver rancher rethink his rules. When temptation got the best of him, he discovered Chloe Burton was just as hot in the bedroom as she was in the kitchen.
Though their affair was growing steamier by the minute, Ramsey couldn't help but question Chloe's true motives. And when he discovered her ultimate betrayal,...
Though their affair was growing steamier by the minute, Ramsey couldn't help but question Chloe's true motives. And when he discovered her ultimate betrayal,...
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Lucky Harbor novels volume 8
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After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan returns home to help her grandmother run her bakery, but finds herself distracted by her best friend, Jack Harper.
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Iris Massey is gone. But she's left something behind. For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made...
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling, " the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
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"Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed-it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days....
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Life in Icicle Falls volume 5
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Former caterer to the stars Bailey Sterling escapes to Icicle Falls after her business is detroyed by scandal, but the future of the tea shop she starts with her sister Cecily is threatened when they both fall for the same man.
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After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town... and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman...
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