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"Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for Bake Week but also the childhood home of the show's famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin. The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as "America's Grandmother," Betsy Martin isn't as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection,...
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"When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic . . . As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"'Tis the season for sleuthing in Donna Andrews' cheery new addition to the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series. Meg has been roped into participating in a blacksmithing competition, a kind of Forged in Fire wannabe organized by a blacksmith friend. Meg originally turned down his invitation to participate, but when Faulk, her blacksmithing mentor, breaks his wrist the night before filming begins, Meg agrees to step in as his replacement...
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Booktown mysteries volume 13
Booktown mysery volume 13
Booktown mystery volume 13
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Booktown mysery volume 13
Booktown mystery volume 13
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Booktown Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped. Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles...
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Mindy Kim volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Mindy Kim loves food...When a local pizza place advertises a trivia competition, Mindy can't believe that the big prize is unlimited pizza for a whole year! Mindy is confident she and her dad can take the top spot. But Dad is worried he might not understand all the cultural references. And he wants Mindy to know that the most important thing is to always try your best, even if you don't win"--
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Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
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English
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"A early reader chapter book with black and white illustrations about new friends and new food. Moving to a new city means Alina has to make new friends. And nothing is worse than lunch at a new school. She tries to join other kids at their tables, but they've been friends since kindergarten, and there doesn't seem to be room for her. A visit from her loving grandmother means all kinds of delicious Indian food, made with her favorite spices. But when...
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2018
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English
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"Caring for her recently widowed grandmother, Bailey King plans to honor her grandfather's memory by entering the annual Amish Confectionery Competition in Harvest, Ohio. When a candy maker from a neighboring town who wanted Englischer Bailey disqualified for being an outsider dies from an allergy to an essential licorice ingredient, Bailey becomes a suspect"--
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2023.
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English
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"In Kilbane, opinions are plentiful and rarely in alignment. But there's one thing everyone does agree on--the bakery in the old flour mill, just outside town, is the best in County Cork, well worth the short drive and the long lines. No wonder they're about to be featured on a reality baking show. All six contestants in the show are coming to Kilbane to participate, and the town is simmering with excitement... As for the competitors themselves, not...
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"When a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef's murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied. During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that outrageously wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the...
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Sprinkle Sundays volume 12
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Supported by her friends, Sierra enters a local singing contest, but her confidence falters when she sees her talented competition.
12) Layla's luck
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Magination Press
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"Layla is a very lucky ladybug. When she enters into a baking competition, she realizes she cannot always rely on her luck"--
13) Ciao for now
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Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...
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Island bites volume 2
Publisher
Independently Published
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Devon King has a plan. An actual plan with bullet points and everything else for his life. When he's called out at work for never participating in any of the office activities he feels compelled to take part in the upcoming office bake off competition to prove he's a team player, as making partner at his architectural design firm is top on his list of career goals. Only problem, he doesn't know anything about baking. Failure is not an option so when...
16) No parm no foul
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Grilled cheese mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After a long hot summer in Balsam Dell, Carly Hale is ready for crisp Vermont weather and gourmet grilled cheeses at her Grilled Cheese Eatery. And the upcoming Halloween food competition is the perfect way to impress the locals. But Ferris Menard, the owner of Sub-a-Dub-Sub, is nursing a serious grudge against Carly. Two days before the competition, one of Carly's employees quit his part-time gig at Menard's sub shop, sending Menard into a serious...
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Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Eunji didn't know when she borrowed her sister's dress that there would be gongghidols hidden in the pockets, but Jingu-the annoying kid that doesn't stop calling her partner-sees them. Instantly, he starts to play. All the kids marvel at his skills, and they start playing too. Soon, the whole class is hooked and decide to have a gonggi tournament. Eunji has never played gonggi, and watching her classmates obsess over the game makes her hate it even...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Rosalinda 'Indy' Belmont is on a mission to revive the town of Gilbert Corners. To garner publicity, she challenges celebrity chef Conrad Gilbert--aka The Beast--to a cook-off on his top-rated TV show. Conrad refuses to return to his hometown ... until he gets a look at his challenger. The Beast accepts on one condition: if Indy loses, she owes him a night of passion. That one night quickly turns into a scorching weekend. Can Indy convince Conrad...
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VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Trimagicathlon--the event that will determine Mash's destiny--has finally begun! Easton and Walkis have sent their best into a spooky manor filled with scary spells and unimaginable curses. Enemies and allies alike find themselves scattered in this maze, and to make matters worse, Mash is quickly caught in a trap by Levis! Faced with the overwhelming magic supremacy of the students from Walkis, it's time for Lance and Dot to show what they're...
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Inflatables volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Watermelon enlists her friends to help her compete in the Air-lympic Games at Have A Great Spray Water Park.
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