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Series
Secret series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cass's mom is kidnapped by the evil dessert chef, Señor Hugo, who requests the legendary tuning fork as ransom, leading Cass and Max-Ernest to try finding the magical instrument in time.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
Author
Series
Love Monster books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Love Monster receives a box of chocolates as a gift, he has second thoughts about sharing them with all of his friends.
Author
Series
Dragon Heart volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Silke has an unexpected opportunity to learn what happened to her parents years before when Princess Katrin asks her to stay at the palace as a spy during a visit from the rulers of Elfenwald.--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Damnation has never been so sweet.... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted.... Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she...
Author
Series
Royal sweets volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin QUIX
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Princess Mini takes the chocolates she has made to her friend, Gobo the troll, and he takes her on an exciting, dangerous, and messy boat ride down the Chocolate River--and she encourages him to enter the beginners race at the Chocolate River Run.
Author
Series
Like water for chocolate volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Español
Description
Un bestseller # 1 en M̌xico en 1990, esta novela encantadora, imaginativa y simplemente divertida de la vida familiar en el M̌xico de principios de siglo incluye recetas ͠nicas al comienzo de cada cap̕tulo para una variedad de platos tradicionales.
14) Wonka
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Based on the major motion picture--an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor--Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time...proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you're lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
15) Six sweets under
Author
Series
True Confections mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, Vermont. Known as the Venice of North America, Larch Haven has canals instead of roads, gondolas instead of cars, and charming cottages that look like they were plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. It's also where Becca is pursuing her newest passion as a chocolatier at True Confections, the chocolate shop owned by her grandparents,...
16) The chase is on
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Something sure looked tempting, and Chase knew it wasn't on his restaurant's menu. His new neighbor Jessica Claiborne was as deliciously enticing as the confections she created; so enticing, Chase was finding it difficult to concentrate on anything but the curve of her lips. Jessica couldn't deny the heat that sparked every time Chase was near. But she had a secret, one that could destroy the desire she saw burning in his eyes. Yet if she wanted a...
Author
Series
Chocoholic mystery volume 18
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this eighteenth mystery in the national bestselling Chocoholic series, a gang of crooks with a wicked sweet tooth wreaks havoc on the resort town of Warner Pier, and it's up to Lee Woodyard to rout the hungry rascals. A frantic late-night phone call from her right-hand woman Dolly Jolly brings Lee Woodyard to the scene of a break-in at the Warner Pier jewelry store next door to TenHuis Chocolade. To her shock, the suspect being held at gunpoint...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue book volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a chocolate turkey--the intended prize for the winners of a Thanksgiving Day race--disappears, Nancy and her friends identify and eliminate suspects in their search for the missing confection.
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