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A Book About Food or Cooking
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Salt and Sugar
by Rebecca Carvalho
"To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook."
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The Noh family
by Grace Shim
When a 23-and-Me test reveals she has a whole extended family in Korea who are among the richest in Seoul, Chloe Chang soon discovers why her mother never told her about them. Simultaneous eBook.
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Blood like fate
by Liselle Sambury
With everyone losing faith in her, fully fledged witch Voya Thomas, after a vision of a terrifying future, has a newfound sense of purpose to bring her shattered community together and stop what's coming for them before it's too late. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The surprising power of a good dumpling
by Wai Chim
Working almost constantly to help out at her father's restaurant and care for her siblings, a teen from a migrant Asian family starts dating a delivery boy before her mother's progressing mental illness upends everything she understood about her family
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It's kind of a cheesy love story
by Lauren Morrill
Accepting a much-needed job from a local pizzeria where she was suddenly born 16 years earlier, Beck discovers an unanticipated sense of belonging among her less-popular co-workers before a disaster compels her to fight for the family restaurant that has become like a home. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Where there's a whisk
by Sarah J. Schmitt
Eighteen-year-old Peyton Sinclaire believes winning the "Top Teen Chef" culinary scholarship is the only way to secure her future, but with nine other cooks in the kitchen and a meddling producer only interested in stirring the pot Peyton may have bit off more than she can chew
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A phở love story
by Loan Le
Avoiding each other most of their lives because of a mysterious rivalry, two Vietnamese-American teens from competing pho restaurants fall in love by chance while uncovering the reason behind their families' generations-old feud. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous and eBook.
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Heartless
by Marissa Meyer
A stand-alone prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by the best-selling author of the Lunar Chronicles, follows the story of the Queen of Hearts, whose talent for baking and love for a mysterious court joker conflict with her mother's ambitions to make her a queen. Simultaneous eBook.
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Melt with you
by Jennifer Dugan
"Two teen girls, former best friends and one-time lovers, go on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck"
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Love from scratch
by Kaitlyn Hill
"This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She's landed her dream marketing internship at Friends of Flavor, a wildly popular cooking channel in Seattle. The only problem? Benny Beneventi, the relentlessly charming, backwards-baseball-cap-wearing culinary intern--and her main competition for the fall job. Reese's plan to keep work a No Feelings Zone crumbles like a day-old muffin when she and Benny are thrown together for a video shoot that goes viral, making them the internet's newest ship. Audiences are hungry for more, and their bosses at Friends of Flavor are happy to deliver. Soon Reese and Benny are in an all-out food war, churning homemade ice cream, twisting soft pretzels, breaking eggs in an omelet showdown--while hundreds of thousands of viewers watch. Reese can't deny the chemistry between her and Benny. But the more their rivalry heats up, the harder it is to keep love on the back burner..."
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My fine fellow
by Jennieke Cohen
In 1830s England, where the Culinarians, who create gorgeous food and confections, are the crème de la crème of high society, three individuals combine forces to pull off a delectable caper that will bring them fame, fortune—and a little romance. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Donuts and other proclamations of love
by Jared Reck
When his life is invaded by the overachieving Lou, who ropes him into helping her gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, high school senior and food truck operator Oscar finds his future going in a very different direction than planned. Simultaneous eBook.
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Cafe con lychee
by Emery Lee
"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American cafâe and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood is secure. So when a new fusion cafâe threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth-they can only achieve their goals by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents'shops or will the new feelings between them boil over?"
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