Library Journal's Reader's Shelf

A Bread Basket of Sweet and Savory Reads

Baking Cakes in Kigali By Parkin, Gaile 2010-08 - Bantam 9780385343442 Check Our Catalog Angel Tungaraza--mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets--is a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her in Kigali. …More

The Whole World Over By Glass, Julia 2007-06 - Anchor Books 9781400075768 Check Our Catalog Julia Glass, author of the award-winning novel "Three Junes," tells a vivid tale of longing and loss, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important connections to others. In The Whole World Over," " she pays tribute once again to the extraordinary complexities of love. Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter's restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts-heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision, along with events beyond Greenie's control, will change the course of several lives around her. …More

The Girl Who Chased the Moon By Allen, Sarah Addison 2010-03 - Bantam 9780553807219 Check Our Catalog In the latest enchanting novel from "New York Times"-bestselling author Allen, two very different women discover how to find their places in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. …More

Earthly Delights By Greenwood, Kerry 2008-06 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590585146 Check Our Catalog Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia. Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula. She is quite content with her cat, Horatio, and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman. Then it is Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Life for Corinna has suddenly become interesting. And she still needs to get her bread out in time for the morning rush.... …More

Eat Cake By Ray, Jeanne 2004-05 - New American Library 9780451211972 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Step-Ball-Change" and "Julie and Romeo" comes her newest work, now in trade paperback for the first time. …More

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing--City By Lebovitz, David 2009-05 - Broadway Books 9780767928885 Check Our Catalog Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. …More

Let Me Eat Cake: A Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Powder, and a Pinch of Salt By Miller, Leslie F. 2009-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781416588733 Check Our Catalog In this warm, funny, and sweet tribute to a food that is loved and celebratedlike no other, Miller embarks on a journey into the moist white underbelly ofthe cake world. …More