Catalog Search Results
62) Chance
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 25
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ava Steel isn't the typical member of her famous family. She colors her hair pink, practices the tarot, and runs her bakery in town without any help from her family's financial fortune. She's content in her life, and she knows who she is...until she receives a cryptic text from a mysterious stranger. Bar-owner Brendan Murphy inadvertently became entwined with the Steel family when he dug up timeworn documents under his floorboards. When he and Ava--who,...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Monsieur Oliphant's cake shop, the only bakery game in town, has long had customers lining up outside its door for Oliphant's delicious jelly rolls and marvelous wedding cakes . . . until the day cookie concocter Mademoiselle Fée takes over the old shoemaker's shop. And it isn't long before the divine piemaker Madame Clotilde soon moves into the old bric-a-brac shop. Three different bakers all trying to outclass one another means their little cul-de-sac...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Libros para Niños
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"A todo el mundo le gustan los panecillos y la pastelería de Walter el panadero, especialmente al Duque y la Duquesa. Pero un desafortunado accidente obliga a Walter a sustituir agua por leche para sus panecillos dulces y los indignados Duque y Duquesa le imponen un desafío: o crea un panecillo sabroso a través del cual el sol brille tres veces o será desterrado del reino. Walter tendrá que abandonar su hogar para siempre? Con buen humor y sus...
Author
Series
Bliss novels volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss and her siblings track down magical ingredients in Paris so Rose can compete in a baking challenge against her evil aunt and win back the family's magical cookbook"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter...and murder... When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence...
67) Grace
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2015: Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas. When she goes to Paris with her mother, she has trouble getting along with her cousin. While at home, her friends start the business she proposed without her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Cookie Jar is abuzz with activity. Hannah's all set to make sweets for the upcoming fair, judge a bake-off and assist a friend in his magic act. But all is not well in the tiny town of Lake Eden. Student teacher Willa Sunquist is found murdered with a key lime pie toppled over at the scene. The list of suspects runs around the block, and Hannah must sift through this motley assortment before the devious villain strikes again.
Author
Series
Union Street Bakery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy McCraes life is in tatters. Shes lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced to living in the attic above her familys store, the Union Street Bakery, while learning the business. Unfortunately, the bakery is in serious hardship. Making things worse is the constant feeling of not being a "real" McCrae since she was adopted as a child and has a less-than-perfect relationship with her two sisters. Then a long-standing elderly...
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery novels volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Liza Schrock had an unhappy arranged marriage and the bakery was her haven. Now, she's happy to bake and remain single even though a handsome new bachelor is in town.
72) Autumn winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Willow Ridge, Missouri, widowed Miriam Lanz is relentlessly pursued by Amish Bishop Knepp in courtship, while running her beloved cafe. When a handsome but rootless blacksmith comes to town, she must listen to God and her heart to find the happiness she longs for.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Flair Hardwicke knows three things: magic is real, love isn't, and relying on either ends in disaster. So while she's grateful for the chance to take over her grandmother's Kansas bakery after she finally leaves her cheating husband, she won't be embracing Nana's fortune-telling side-hustle. Hers is a strictly no-magic operation--until the innocent batch of Tarot card cookies Flair bakes for the town's Halloween celebration unleashes the power of...
Author
Series
Little Beach Street Bakery volume 4
Language
English
Description
Moving to a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, lonely registrar Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by, unexpectedly finds her joy again with the help of her noisy neighbor, the community spirit, and a campaign to save the local bakery.
Moving to the tidal island of Mount Polbearne, a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by. She is struggling to get...
Author
Publisher
Argyll Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a unique - and priceless - collection of antique cookie cutters leads to murder, Olivia Greyson, the owner of a shop specializing in all things cookie, must stir up some clues to catch a killer with a sweet tooth.
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery novels volume 5
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fresh-baked muffins fragrant with ripe blueberries ...cinnamon-scented turnovers that transform any meal into a feast. ... In 1914 Ohio, the Amish Charm Bakery holds a special place within its close-knit, faith-filled community, where love finds a way through God's grace ...even for a widow faced with an impossible choice between her head and her heart. So when a meet-cute at a wedding leads Magdelena and Toby into a cross-class romance against the...
78) Kiss my cupcake
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Blaire Calloway has planned every Instagram-worthy moment of her cupcake and cocktails shop launch down to the tiniest detail. What she didn't plan on? Ronan Knight and his old-school sports bar next door opening on the very same day. He may be super swoony, but Blaire hasn't spent years obsessing over buttercream and bourbon to have him ruin her chance at success."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Pinkie Pie is excited when Rarity gets a job as a cashier at the Sugarcube Corner, but when the two friends don't see eye to eye on customer service, things aren't as sweet as she believed.
Author
Series
Hopeless romantics volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the USA TODAY bestselling author of the "heartwarming and refreshingly sweet" (Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author) On the Corner of Love and Hate comes a sizzling and sweet small-town love story that follows a bakery store owner who decides to take her chances on a truly hopeless romantic"--
After selling her famous bakery back in New York, Parker Adams visits Hope Lake, Pennsylvania, to figure out her next steps-- she's burned...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request