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Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal - Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Format: Print book

Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she's a pint-sized recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she's a fire-eating demon. To the fashionable foodie goddess of supper clubs, she's a wanton threat. She's an enigma,...
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Midnight Brunch (Casa Dracula Series, Book 2)

Marta Acosta - Gallery Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback

What's a girl to do when she discovers she's the main course on the menu? Hip, funny Milagro de los Santos thinks she's finally found love and a home at the California ranch of fabulous Oswald Grant and his urbane relatives, who have a rare genetic disorder that some call...
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Cooking for Picasso: A Novel

Camille Aubray

For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life."A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking." - Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season...
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Secrets of the Chocolate House

Paula Brackston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's The Little Shop of Found Things...
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The Cauliflower: A Novel

Nicola Barker - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saintTo the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna--godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni,...
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Soy Sauce for Beginners: A Novel

Kirstin Chen - Amazon Publishing
Format: Paperback

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she's avoided her entire adult life: her mother's drinking problem and the machinations...
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Egg Drop Dead

Laura Childs - Berkley Pub Group
Format: Print book

In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni - co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Caf - are back to track down another bad egg ... Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club...
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Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel

Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garca Mrquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Coln family and the dreams, love, and h
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An Apple for the Creature

Charlaine Harris - Ace Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Includes a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story! What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition? Your worst school nightmares—taking that...
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Rest In Pizza

Chris Cavender - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Small towns like Timber Ridge, North Carolina - the home of Eleanor Swifts delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight - dont take well to prima donna celebrities. So no one is particularly pleased when TV host and chef Antonio Benet roars into town for a book signing and manages to insult...
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Out to Lunch

Stacey Ballis - Berkley Trade
Format: Paperback

A touching and hilarious novel from the fabulous Stacey Ballis about best friends, true love, and the joy of foodfor fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin...Jenna has lost her best friend.With Aimee gone so tragically young, Jenna barely knows where to turn. Aimee was the one who always...
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The Dinner Party: And Other Stories

JOSHUA FERRIS - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearThe first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling,...
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The Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition

John Steinbeck - Viking
Format: Hardcover

April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievementFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma...
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Alan Bradley - Bantam
Format: Paperback

Winner of the CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD and the AGATHA AND DILYS AWARD - "A wickedly clever story, a dead-true and original voice" - Laurie R. KingIt is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist...
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Cakewalk: A Novel

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

Continuing in the exuberant tradition of Six of One, Bingo, and Loose Lips, New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown returns to her much-loved fictional hamlet of Runnymede, whose memorable citizens are welcoming both the end of the Great War and the beginning...
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Sourdough: A Novel

Robin Sloan - MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Click Here For the Autographed Copy In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing...
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Pineapple Grenade

Tim Dorsey - WilliamMr; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The undisputed king of the comic crime novel." - Providence Journal"I guarantee Dorsey will never win the Nobel Prize for Literature - he's far too funny." - Richmond Times-Dispatch"If you've never read Dorsey, you need to start ... You won't be disappointed."...
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