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"Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir-a classic American story-invites readers...

Sharp-tongued, culinary maestro Chef Gordon Ramsay brings his brand of nightmarish coaching to young amateur chefs all competing for a job in his kitchen. Includes nine episodes.

Sharp-tongued, culinary maestro Chef Gordon Ramsay is back for another season, recruiting a different brigade of passionate amateurs each week to see if they can live up to the task of feeding the diners in his new restaurant.

Juana, a working-class, single mother, decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Against all odds, she fights to achieve her dream of becoming a sushi chef.

It's fall in Winter Garden, Virginia, and business at the Down South Cafe has never been better. So when struggling beekeeper Stuart Landon asks Amy to sell some of his honey, she's happy to help. The jars of honey are a sweet success, but their partnership is cut short when she discovers his body outside the cafe early one morning. It seems unlikely that someone would have wanted to harm the unassuming beekeeper, so Amy worries that she might have...

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.
 
Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows...

"Not so long ago, Lizzie Glass had a successful TV show, a cookbook deal, and a social diary crammed with parties and events. But fame doesn't stay fresh for long. Her show fizzles, her magazine column is canceled, and Lizzies only option is a summer job as personal chef to the Silvesters, a wealthy and eccentric family. Their beach house is a lavish, beautifully decorated palace on the Jersey Shore, and Lizzie gets to work catering to Kathryn and...

Blame it on the cowboy: After finding his fiancee in bed with another man, Logan McCord agrees to a no-strings-attached fling with a cute stranger. Chef Reese Stephens mistakenly thought she had only weeks to live when she sought out a one-night-stand with a cowboy. Now, she must track Logan down to get back the heirloom watch she had given him. Cowboy underneath it all: Eliza Wright tried to help her sister out by telling the town that she and her...

"Julia Child knew how to have fun, and she also knew how to whip up a delightful meal. After traveling around the world working for the U.S. government, Julia found her calling in the kitchen and devoted her life to learning, perfecting, and sharing the art of French cuisine. This delicious, illustrated biography is a portrait of the remarkable woman, author, and TV personality who captured our hearts with her sparkling personality. 'Bon appétit!'"--Provided...