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Author
Series
Hope and glory volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Gray Delacroix has dedicated his life to building his very successful global spice empire, but it has come at a cost. Resolved to salvage his family before it spirals out of control, he returns to his ancestral home to save his brother and sister before it's too late. As a junior botanist for the Smithsonian, Annabelle Larkin has been charged with the impossible task of gaining access to the notoriously private Delacroix plant collection. If she...
2) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
Author
Series
Hope and glory volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1900, secretary to the first lady of the United States, Caroline Delacroix is at the pinnacle of high society--but is hiding a terrible secret. Agent Nathaniel Trask must battle his growing love for her as the threat to the president rises and they face adventure, heartbreak, and danger."--
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods. And Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold the keys to solving...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 15
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Emma's younger brother Jake has tonsilitis and makes life difficult for Emma, while the Cupcake Club girls are spoiling him with cupcakes and little gifts.
10) Game of scones
Author
Series
Sugar and Spice mystery volume 1
Publisher
Lyrical Underground
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As co-owner of Sugar and Spice Cookbooks, Sugar Calloway has seen simple confections bring friends together and spark fiery feuds. Except this time, the recipe truly is to die for. After losing her job as food editor at a glossy magazine, Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway -- aka "Sugar" to friends -- isn't sweet on accepting defeat and crawling back to her gossipy southern hometown. So when she has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces. Among the locals vying for the grand prize...
12) Spice Road
Author
Series
Spice Road trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the hidden desert city of Qalia, there is secret spice magic that awakens the affinities of those who drink the misra tea. Sixteen-year-old Imani has the affinity for iron and is able to wield a dagger like no other warrior. She has garnered the reputation as being the next great Shield for battling djinn, ghouls, and other monsters spreading across the sands. Her reputation has been overshadowed, however, by her brother, who tarnished the family...
13) Spiced right
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"'Don't ever think I didn't want more time with you, darlin'.' Those were her college boyfriend's last words to her after a phone call summoned him home to Texas. In the ten years since, Jack Reed has taken over his family's ranch, and Jillian Parks has experienced devastating losses with traumatic repercussions. Now a reclusive insomniac, she podcasts about the specialty hybrid chili peppers she grows in her Seattle greenhouse, keeping a closed door...
14) Friends forever
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Mini can't believe her eyes! She spots a baby narwhal named Spice on the shores of Ice Cream Isles and discovers that he's lost. His family lives far away in the North Sea, and he doesn't know how to find them. Mini wants to help, but she will need her friends on this dangerous journey. Will there be a happy family reunion for Spice, or will Ice Cream Isles be his new home?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers--Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers. Until one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead. Local glass artist and cupcake lover Rene Fischer-Klein has always suffered from a wide variety of health issues. In an effort to cheer her up, her doting...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" Katerina longs to know why her late grandmother, Miriam, refused to talk about the past, especially when she inherits a journal and handwritten letters stashed in a wooden spice box, cryptic treasures written in Armenian, Miriam's mother tongue. On vacation in Cyprus, Katerina finds the key to unlocking her grandmother's secrets and discovers a family legacy of exile and loss. Aged seven, Miriam was expelled from her home in Eastern Turkey and witnessed...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in the South, has got her sass back. She might be down, but don't count her out. "Change of life?" she asks. Bring it on. Recently divorced, Piper decides to pursue a dream she's secretly harbored: owning her own business, Spice it Up!, a spice shop in her adopted hometown, Brandywine Creek, Georgia. But Piper's grand opening goes awry when the local chef who's agreed to do a cooking demo is found stabbed....
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sophie never considered ghostwriting as a side gig, until former actress and aspiring lifestyle guru, Tilly Stratford, trophy wife of Wesley Winthrope, needs someone to write her celebrity cookbook. Sophie agrees, hoping she'll earn enough bread on this assignment to finish her bathroom renovations. But as it turns out, Sophie isn't the first foodie to get a taste for recipe ghostwriting, and if the marginalia are any indication, this project could...
Author
Series
Spice and Wolf light novels volume 17
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Several years have passed since the incidents surrounding the Coin of the Sun. Having received a letter from Holo, Norah the former shepherdess and Eve the merchant woman travel north--and on the way, they end up in the same wagon as Diana the alchemist"--
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