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by Stacey Ballis
With some serious decisions to make about her personal and professional future, Alana must discover the perfect balance of work and play, money and meaning, to bring it all to the table--one delicious dish at a time.
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by Diana Abu-Jaber
Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor who not awakens unexpected feelings but also stirs up memories of her parents and questions about her Arab-American identity.
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by Sandra D. Bricker
Sparks fly when diabetic baker Emma Rae Travis meets Atlanta hotelier Jackson Drake, despite both being encumbered by crazy families.
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by Jenny Colgan
When a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at Paris's elite chocolatier Le Chapeau Chocolat, Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna's new boss creates. But with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna might learn that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for.
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by Katie Fforde
Nel is appalled to learn that the land used for the local farmer's market is going to be sold to build vacation homes for the rich. As she mounts a vigorous campaign to stop the whole process, she runs up against the hunky Jake, who is handling the legal affairs for the opposition.
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by Nina George
Overcome by regrets after decades in a loveless and unhappy marriage, Marianne attempts suicide and is abandoned by her husband before finding herself in picturesque Brittany, where she finds loving new friends who encourage her to develop her talents for her own pleasure.
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by Elizabeth M. Harbison
Dedicating herself to her culinary patrons including an old-fashioned fussy eater, a seriously overweight woman and a neurotic diner who believes she is allergic to everything, private chef Gemma Craig goes home every night to boxed cereals until an unexpected event compels a confrontation with the past and an unexpected romance.
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by Elin Hilderbrand
Adrienne moves to Nantucket in the hopes of starting over and gets a crash course in restaurant management at a popular locale that is preparing to close, an endeavor that is compromised by her budding relationship with her boss
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by K. M Jackson
A designer and a realtor clash over the fate of a historic theater, but find themselves drawn to each other despite their differences.
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by James Howard Kunstler
She's the goddess of hearth and home, America's millionaire media maven of domesticity, Connecticut's most dazzling hostess, and everything in her world must be perfect -- except that Maggie Darling's enviable life has suddenly gone off the rails.
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by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Kit is a burned-out New York stock trader who's been packed off by his Irish secretary to a far corner of her homeland to dry out and get his head on straight. Abbey, who is estranged from her philandering husband and heartless mother, has fled to her grandfather's Irish dairy farm to help out with his boutique cheese-making business. They are drawn together by a powerful chemistry neither understands. Is it the cheese?
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by Louise Miller
When Olivia Rawlings -- pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club -- sets not just her flambeed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of -- the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country's longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah.
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by Liza Palmer
After being fired from her job, Queenie Wake returns home to North Star (Texas) to cook meals for death row inmates and, hopes that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister have been forgotten.
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by Christa Parrish
Liesl McNamara has tried to create a quiet life as a bread baker for herself, but a cooking television show, an alleged long-lost half-sister, and a delivery man determined to win her affections has complicated her plans.
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by Shamara Ray
Riley Ryan is an up-and-coming personal chef hired to cater a retirement party for Louis and Miriam Carlyle. The Carlyles are so impressed with her skills that they hire Riley to be their chef on a regular basis. When the Carlyle's four sons begin to vie for her attention, Riley has to figure out how to keep the heat contained in the kitchen.
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by Amy E. Reichert
The day that Al's mean-spirited review of Luella's runs, the two cross paths in a pub: Lou drowning her sorrows, and Al celebrating his latest publication. As they chat, Al playfully challenges Lou to show him the best of Milwaukee and she's game--but only if they never discuss work, which Al readily agrees to.
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by Nora Roberts
Wedding baker Laurel McBane has been in love with her business partner's older brother, Delaney Brown, since childhood, but she worries that her relationship with the dashing Ivy League lawyer will never move beyond friendship.
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by Viola Shipman
Unemployed, single, and defeated, Samantha spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside the women in her life -- including her mother, Deana, and grandmother, Willo. One beloved, flour-flecked, ink-smeared recipe at a time, Sam begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food through their treasured recipe box.
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Grace after Henry by Eithne ShortallWhen her fiance is killed in a freak biking accident, Grace feels like she's lost her own shadow. She moves into the dream house they bought together; returns to work as a chef; watches TV with her elderly neighbor. But she's always aware of the Henry-shaped hole in her life. Then his long-lost twin brother knocks on her door.
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by Sarah Strohmeyer
Recently fired from her influential television reporting job and struggling to raise a teenage daughter alone, Julie Mueller finds renewal in her relationships with women family members and in a dessert cooking class, where she reconnects with an old flame.
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