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A handful of men search for rare, expensive and delicious white Alba truffles deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy.

McKenney has simplified candy making, and her easy-to-follow recipes are perfect for beginners. She also provides tips and tricks throughout the book to help you in making truffles, marshmallows, fudge, and so much more.

Chocoholic Charity Penn must save her new seaside chocolate shop from a deadly assortment of threats in this sweet series debut. When Charity Penn receives a letter saying she won a trip to South Carolina for free confectionery lessons at a seaside chocolate shop, the Chocolate Box, she's skeptical: she knows that she never entered the contest. An old prep school friend offers to look into the phony prize - and ends up drowned in a vat of chocolate....

Peter Mayle sets his latest irresistible tale in the thyme- and lavender-scented south of France. Bennett, a suave if slightly threadbare English ex-patriot who is fast approaching the end of his credit, advertises his "services" in "The International Herald Tribune". In no time, he is being paid handsomely to impersonate the mysterious and very wealthy Julian Poe. "A lark that's perfect for summer reading".--"Baltimore Sun".