Book Buzz
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July 2023: Stranded on a Dessert-ed Island
Fresh Out of the Oven
New Baking Cookbooks
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Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile by Kim-Joy (DB108598 / BR24312)
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Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Favorite Recipes from BreadIn5 by Jeff Hertzberg (DB109944 / BR24470 in process)
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Pie Academy: Master the Perfect Crust and 255 Amazing Fillings, With Fruits, Nuts, Creams, Custards, Ice Cream, and More: Expert Techniques for Making Fabulous Pies from Scratch by Ken Haedrich (DB108596 / BR24302)
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Geek Sweets: An Adventurer's Guide to Baking Wizardry: 60+ Recipes to Level Up Your Baking Game! by Jenny Burgesse (DB109514 / BR24295)
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The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts by Sherry Yard (DBG09123)
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Bake: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics by Paul Hollywood (DB112876 in process / BR24774 in process)
A Baker's Half Dozen
Baking-Related Fiction
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson - Modern Family Story: A brother and sister receive an inheritance of a traditional Caribbean black cake recipe and their estranged mother's life story. (DB106558 / BR24489)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - Historical Fiction: During World War II, a writer corresponds with residents of the German-occupied island of Guernsey. She travels to the island to meet these new literary friends. (DB67526 / BR21120)
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Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray - Modern Family Story: A housewife copes with her dysfunctional family by baking. (DB56758 / BR14979)
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The Sugar Pavilion by Rosalind Laker - Historical Fiction: During the French Revolution a confectioner and her son escape France to make their home and business in England. (DB38474)
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The Memory of Lemon by Judith Fertig - Modern Family Story: A pastry chef who can taste emotions is able to bake perfect confections for her customers while navigating her own emotions and life events. (DBC08768)
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Chocolat series, book 1 by Joanne Harris - Historical Fiction: At the beginning of Lent, a mother and daughter open a chocolate shop near the church in a small French village. (DB49086)
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Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile - Modern Family Story: An African American woman unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. As a single mother, she manages her family and her sugarcane business. (DB80375)
A Bit O’ Honey
Confectionary History
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Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar by Peter Macinnis (DB57299)
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Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner (DB50762)
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Sweets by Tim Richardson (DB58771) - History of candy.
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Ben & Jerry's, the Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor by Fred Lager (DB39204 / BR09763)
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Dark tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo (DB59335)
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop (DB62617)
These books and more are available on digital cartridge (call the Library at 1-800-992-9012 to order) or for download from the National Library Service's (NLS) online Braille Audio Reading Download (BARD) database: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/
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