Jilted by her fiancé, Dawn Dixon escapes to beautiful Cape Cod on a groomless honeymoon--with her mother. But she didn't expect her mom to risk everything, on a whim, to move there permanently or buy a rundown ice cream shop in need of repair. In order to make their new life work, they'll also need her ex's help.

"The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation-from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today-and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet"--

Looks at the process behind the making of ice cream, from the milking of the cows, through the mixing in of sugar, flavoring, freezing, packaging, transporting, and finally eating the finished product.

Reveals who really invented the ice cream cone, even before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair where five people claim they did so.

"Chill out with the fascinating history behind ice cream, the first in a fact-tastic Level 3 Ready-to-Read nonfiction series about the history of fun stuff! Did you know that immigrants to Ellis Island were served ice cream as part of their first meal in America? Or that George Washington spent more than $200 on ice cream during the summer of 1790? Learn all about the cool history of everyone's favorite frozen treat in this fun, fact-filled Level...

One of the brightest talents reinventing ice cream's image is Claire Kelsey of Ginger's Comfort Emporium, who serves her irresistible creations from her show-stopping retro van, or at festivals and events across the UK. In 'Melt', Claire brings us more than 60 of her favourite recipes, ranging from easy berry ripple to vanilla in a chocolate brownie sandwich, and from crunchy marmalade on toast to olive oil and smoked sea salt. This is a grown-up...

Explores the nation's favorite ice cream shops with photographs and 150 recipes.

"A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice--its secret history and dire future. Tedesco unearths its secrets--from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperature in cryoconite holes--and weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, epic tales of Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations"--...

"From the kitchen of legendary best-selling author and expert on all things sweet Rose Levy Berenbaum, here are 100 easy-to-follow recipes for irresistibly dreamy ice creams and other frozen treats"--Back cover.