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The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest. A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end and, considering the rumors swirling about...
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Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Arya Winters is your typical cozy heroine. She lives in a cottage in a small English village, and bakes for a living - well, she specializes in macabre desserts. She has nosy neighbors, who she avoids ruthlessly due to her social anxiety. And she has a keen interest in all things sexy, especially Branwell Beam, the writer next door. When her neighbor Tobias Yards turns up dead after eating poisoned tiramisu (definitely not poisoned when she baked...
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In her second adventure in the Land of Fake-Believe, Princess Pink meets Scaredy-Pants Wolf, a baker whose business has been robbed by Little Red Quacking Hood--and to save the bakery Princess must figure out why the ducks are suddenly so interested in pies.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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While baking up a storm for the grand opening of the Irish import gift shop owned by her boyfriend's eccentric uncle, Finnigan O'Connor, Lindsey Bakewell needs the luck of the Irish when Finn is arrested for bludgeoning a man dressed as a leprechaun.
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Cherry enthusiast Whitney Bloom is furiously baking her way into the heart of Chicago with her fabulous cherry pies when she receives a desperate call from her mother. The annual Cherry Blossom Festival has just kicked off at the Cherry Orchard Inn in Door County, Wisconsin, and the manager of the Bloom family orchard has been found dead beneath the cherry blossoms. Worse yet, all evidence points to Whitney's father as the killer. After she races...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. She may be skeptical about returning to her former nautical life with Carlos but Jules can't resist an all-expense-paid trip, either. If only she...
88) Fat cat at large
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Chase's cat, Quincy, leads Chase to the corpse of Gabe Naughtly, a business rival. When Chase is discovered at the murder scene, she becomes suspect number one.
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
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Tundra
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"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...
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Simon & Schuster Libros para Niños
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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"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...
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Bliss novels volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"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"--
94) Only for you
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Series
Sapphire Springs volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tim Fraser knows only one way to stop the gossip about his love life-a new girlfriend. The problem is, he's done with romance forever. A fake relationship with his friend and Sapphire Spring's sweetest baker, Emily Holland, seems the perfect solution...Emily has secretly lusted after Tim for years, but pretending her feelings are all for show never factored into her fantasy. Still, her decades-long crush makes it impossible to say no to Tim's proposal"--...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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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...
96) Grace
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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
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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.
98) The look of love
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Wedding cake mysteries volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On an all-expenses-paid trip to a Hollywood Hills luxury spa to create a unique wedding cake, Piper Donovan discovers the gruesome murder of another guest.
99) Pat-a-cake
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Flowerpot Press, a Division of Flowerpot Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, with the baker drawn as a friendly bear.
100) Carrot cake murder
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English
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It's summer time in Lake Eden, Minnesota, which means picnics aplenty for bakery proprietress and amateur sleuth Hannah. Then Uncle Gus is murdered following a big family reunion, and the only clues to be found at the crime scene are two slices of Hannah's infamous carrot cake.
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