Make sure you have a macaroon or a cupcake handy before you
crack the cover of SWEET INVENTION: A HISTORY OF DESSERT.
You're going to be hungry for a taste of something sweet
before you get through the introduction.
Krondl sees dessert in terms of music and often includes Read more...
FABRIC BY FABRIC ONE YARD WONDERS introduces a fabric type,
then highlights how a yard or less of it can be used to
create practical clothing, accessories (everything from
scarves to diaper bags), and home decor items. Some
projects allow you to get multiple pieces of a set of
matching Read more...
Twelve people on a train, from different countries and
different social classes. One of them is a murderer. Good
thing world-famous crime solver Hercule Poirot is on the
scene. Shortly before his death, the victim approaches
Poirot to ask for protection because he thinks someone is
trying to kill Read more...
Ten strangers brought together on an island by a mysterious
host known only as Mr. U.N. Owen. No boat. No
communication with the outside world. Ten strangers who
find out from a recording placed on a phonograph that they
are all accused of murder. So when the accused start Read more...
Summer has grown up in the shadow of her older sister
Shannon. Shannon the great student. Shannon the success.
Unfortunately, Shannon died before summer was even born
(she suspects she is a replacement child, and the she never
would have been born if Shannon hadn't been in that car Read more...
Ariel is a middle-schooler who knows just what she wants to
do with her life. She's going to be a chef. Her two best
friends, Nicki and Mattie, are very supportive of Ariel's
dreams -- even as they devour her culinary creations. The
trio seems inseparable. But all Read more...
Ariel is a middle-schooler who knows just what she wants to
do with her life. She's going to be a chef. Her two best
friends, Nicki and Mattie, are very supportive of Ariel's
dreams -- even as they devour her culinary creations. The
trio seems inseparable. But all Read more...
Capucine Le Tellier is a police Commissaire in Paris. She
thinks she's going on vacation to visit her Uncle in her
family's ancestral manor house, but she just can't seem to
take a break from crime. Her uncle is convinced that a
recent accident during a partridge Read more...
Colt McAlister was born into a military family, which has
prepared him to deal with head-on confrontation. But
nothing has prepared him to deal with the death of both his
parents. Yet it happens, in the form of a car accident
just after Colt was attacked by what he Read more...
In the ATOMIC WEIGHT OF SECRETS, five children, all
geniuses, all with scientifically brilliant parents, find
themselves taken away from their parents by men in black to
an isolated town where they are put in the care of four
different nannies. The first big question is why has this
happened Read more...
In the seventh book in the Domestic Equalizers series, I
CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME, BUT I CAN MAKE YOU LEAVE, has-been
country music star Darla Denman is ready to make a
comeback. She's just about broke, and the best gigs she's
been able to get Read more...
April Bowers misses her best friend -- make that her only
friend -- Haley, who moved away over the summer. So she's
dreading going back to school. When she gets partnered up
in gym class with Britney Taylor, most popular girl in
school, it seems like her day is just getting Read more...
In the preface to MR. MONK ON THE ROAD, author Lee
Goldberg tells us not to read this book until WE have seen
the last episode of the television series Monk as the book
contains spoilers on who killed Monk's wife Trudy, which is
the whole point of the Read more...
Welcome to Tallula Falls, Oregon, a quiet little place
which happens to be home to the Seven-Year-Stitch, an
embroidery shop that has been the site of not one, but now
two, murders. This town is filled with likable characters,
especially our protagonist, Marcy Singer, who owns the
Seven Read more...
Lena Tiddle is ready for her eighteenth birthday. By then,
she'll be done with high school, matched with the boy
she'll someday marry and ready to start college. But more
importantly, on that day, she will undergo the permanent
surgical cure for amor deliria nervosa -- better known as Read more...
Miranda Bloom wants to be a writer, so she's excited to
have scored one of a few coveted spots on her award-winning
high school newspaper, the Ampersand. It seems like she's
going to have an awesome sophomore year at "Geek High," the
magnet school she attends with Read more...
When school lets out early for a snow day, Scotty Weams
(who is disappointed that the snow means cancellation of
his team's basketball game) and his two best friends, Pete
and Jason, decide to stay at school for a few more hours to
work on a go-kart Jason Read more...
How do you explain music to a person who doesn't hear? It
seems an impossible task. Second-time author Antony John
takes that question one step further in FIVE FLAVORS OF
DUMB and asks: how do you explain music through a person
who doesn't hear? Granted, his protagonist Read more...
On the way home from a track meet, the bus carrying sixteen-
year-old Jessica's team collided with a car. The accident
leaves Jessica in the hospital -- minus one leg. Jessica
had dreamed of going to college on a track scholarship.
She had been the team's star. Now Read more...
Amy had a choice. After her mother was cryogenically
frozen, her father told her that she could choose not to go
with her parents on their three hundred year journey to a
new planet. She could have stayed with her aunt and uncle,
kept seeing her boyfriend, finished school, lived Read more...
Amber Royer
I am a youth librarian turned
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write, lecture and teach about cooking,
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