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by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request -- to get her blog posts published as a book -- a reality.
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by Camille Aubray
Follows the 1936 culinary affair between a reclusive Picasso and a rebellious teen from the French Riviera, a relationship that shapes the life of the girl's granddaughter in New York more than half a century later
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by Dana Bate
When Kelly Madigan is offered a job abroad right after reading a letter from her late mother urging her to take more risks, she sees it as a sign. Kelly's new ghostwriting assignment means moving to London to work for Natasha Spencer -- movie star, lifestyle guru, and wife of a promising English politician. |
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by Eli Brown
The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. |
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by Kate Christensen
As a young man, Hugo Whittier dreamed of being a published poet and essayist. Now 40, with a string of failures behind him, he sits self-exiled at Waverly, the family home on the Hudson River, dryly churning out autobiographical notebooks while smoking fast and furiously enough to ensure his rapid, inevitable demise.
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by Sonali Dev
DJ Caine, a multiracial British Cordon Bleu-trained chef, is dismayed to learn that the arrogant woman who invaded "his" kitchen, almost tipped over his caramel, and then referred to him as "the hired help" is Trisha Raje, the brilliant doctor he's counting on to save his sister Emma's life.
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by Beth Kendrick
Two estranged sisters who combined have never made anything more complicated than brownie mix team up to enter a national bake-off with a top-secret recipe from the grandmother who orchestrated their reunion.
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by Herman Koch
Meeting at a fashionable Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' shattering act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.
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by Cathy Lamb
After leaving her abusive fiancé at the altar, Julia Bennett arrives in Golden, Oregon, where she is welcomed with open arms by an eccentric clan of women who help her find the courage to confront her tortured past and the strength to follow her dreams of becoming a baker.
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by Shanna Mahin
Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking.
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by Grace Dane Mazur
Two wary Massachusetts families -- one no-nonsense attorneys, the other impractical intellectuals -- meet before the wedding that is supposed to unite them and share a single day of complicated fiascoes, miracles and unexpected eccentricities.
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by Mandy Mikulencak
Ginny's father was murdered when she was eight. He was a guard at the Greenmount State Penitentiary in Louisiana, and as justice for her beloved daddy's death, Ginny was made to watch his killer's execution. As an adult Ginny ... works a prison cook, making daily life more bearable for prisoners and insists on making their last meals.
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by Gaile Parkin
Rendered a confidant and supportive friend for her willingness to listen to her neighbors in genocide-stricken Rwanda, baker Angel Tungaraza provides decadent confections and transforming counsel to a series of troubled customers. |
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by Ruth Reichl
Billie Breslin, a slightly lost young woman, comes to New York under a set of circumstances that are not altogether clear. Billie finds work at the beloved but soon-to-be-defunct food magazine Delicious and almost immediately becomes absorbed in the magazine's secret archives.
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by Jaspreet Singh
Kirpal Singh reminisces on his life as a Sikh cook in the military camp at the foot of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir and how his friendship with Irem, a Pakistani woman arrested for entering Kashmir illegally, made him question the tumultuous conflict between India and Pakistan.
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by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
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by Ali Smith
When Miles Garth locks himself in an upstairs room during a dinner party and communicates only through notes slipped under the door, his involuntary hosts beg help from childhood friend Anna, who is unwittingly thrust into the family's surreal world.
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by Jessica Soffer
Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks, making croissants andchocolat chaud, seeking out rare ingredients, all to earn the love of her distracted chef of a mother, who is now packing her off to boarding school.
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by Sarah Vaughan
Competing to become the New Mrs. Eaden, the cookbook writer who, in 1966, published The Art of Baking, five amateur bakers form unlikely alliances and mix things up as they discover that while perfection is possible to achieve in the kitchen, it is much harder in life.
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by Susan Wiggs
Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she’s pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. |
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