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3) Bone appetit
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English
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The author of more than a dozen novels, Carolyn Haines is the recipient of the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. Depressed after losing her unborn child, PI Sarah Booth Delaney distracts herself by checking out a beauty pageant with her friend and partner, Tinkie. This works fine-until the pageant's top contender is poisoned. The prime murder suspect asks Sarah and Tinkie to investigate, and they agree-but their decision has grave consequences....
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When production for the tenth season of the hit cooking competition Bake Week begins at the gothic estate of the show's host and founder, celebrity chef Betsy Martin, everything seems normal. The six contestants are eager to prove their culinary talentsover the course of five days, while Betsy struggles for control of the show with her new co-host, the brash and unpredictable Archie Morris. But as the baking competition gets under way, things begin...
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Phyllis loves to spend quality time with her grandson. She'll be taking him to a festival with hopes of winning the baking contest-now that her friendly competitor, Carolyn, is judging and not competing. But when a decorative scarecrow is actually a dead body in disguise, it's Phyllis's sleuthing skills that are needed. The dead body is that of the festival's organizer- and his wife, Carolyn's friend, falls under suspicion. Carolyn turns to Phyllis...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Danyal Jilani may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he's funny, gorgeous, and going to make a great chef one day. His father doesn't approve of his career choice, but what matters more to Danyal is the opinion of Danyal's longtime crush, the perfect-in-all-ways Kaval, and her family, who consider him a less than ideal arranged marriage prospect. Selected for Renaissance Man, a school-wide academic championship, Danyal knows it's the perfect...
9) On the line
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English
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When up-and-coming chef Mateo Castillo collapses, he and his family undergo genetic testing, but the answers the testing reveals leaves Mateo asking more questions.
Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he’s about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant’s kitchen—and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency...
10) The karate mouse
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 40
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bruce Hyena and his cousin, Shorty Tao, enter Geronimo in the Karate World Championship, he has only one week to get into shape and learn karate.
11) I kissed Alice
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Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Fan Girl meets Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda in this #ownvoices LGBTQ romance about two rivals who fall in love online--
Rhodes and Iliana couldn't be more different, but that's not why they hate each other. Rhodes, a gifted artist, has always excelled at Alabama's Conservatory of the Arts (until she's hit with a secret bout of creator's block), while Iliana, a transfer student, tries to outshine everyone with her intense, competitive work ethic....
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Series
Babymouse volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.
13) South beach love
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Series
Pub. Date
s202
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English
Description
Two chefs are catering the fifteenth birthday parties of two girls who are definitely not friends. Only one of the celebrations will be chosen to be featured in the local paper. And both chefs have something to prove. Tony Sanchez, the established executive chef of a New York restaurant, is on a long-overdue visit home to Miami. He's committed to making the celebration the best it can be-for the sake of his niece, the rest of his family, and his...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had-starting with horses. She signs...
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Pies before guys mystery volume 2
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English
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Everyone loves a good pie. But how about a pie that's as deadly as it is delectable? Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town's worst cads. Now, Daisy's entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k in prize money -- but she still has a murder pie to deliver after filming. In a completely unexpected turn of events, she discovers that her intended victim...
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English
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Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a head chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents' candy shop. Now, while caring for her recently widowed grandmother, she plans to honor her grandfather's memory by entering the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. But between lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Bailey may have bitten off more than she can...
17) Hide
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon's classic Harvest Home, Netflix's Squid Game , and the social commentary of Jordan Peele's film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg's Jaws .-- Booklist The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement...
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Series
Song of wraiths and ruin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal--kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia's freedom. But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny;...
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Epoca volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The next book in the #1 New York Times best-selling Epoca series from Kobe Bryant and Ivy Claire. As Pretia, the Princess of Epoca, prepares to return to Ecrof, the elite magical sports academy, she is focused on the most important part of her upcoming year: the Junior Epic Games. She knows that her destiny is to rule Epoca, but right now, all she wants is to be selected for the Junior Epic team so that she can compete against the best young athletes...
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English
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1927. Olivia Livy West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...
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