Food Literature

After the death of her brave Harlem Hellfighter husband during the First World War, young widow Nola Ann Jackson returned to her hometown of Agate, Illinois, to live with her Aunt Sarah, a known local psychic. Under her aunt's care and tutelage, Nola has been learning how to tap into her own intuitive gifts and communicate with the spirits. And she will rely on their insightful guidance when she's asked to help investigate a woman's disappearance.

Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway’s wives, but she’s also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley quickly agrees to help investigate and they hit the road to see what clues they might find. Back in the late 1970s, Catherine and her friend Veronica were part of a group of lost souls camping in the mangroves of Big Pine Key, until Veronica vanished, and the sheriff’s office cleared out the camp. Catherine and Hayley begin interviewing Big Pine Key residents who were around at the time of Veronica’s disappearance.

Amateur sleuth Isabelle "Izzy" James thinks life in Sunshine Springs has finally settled down. Her boozy pie cafe is running smoothly, and she has a whole new circle of friends. But nothing stirs up a quiet week like a man being pushed from a rooftop to his death. The unlucky man had been participating in a scavenger hunt when he met his demise, and Izzy goes on a scavenger hunt of her own-looking for clues about who the murderer might be. But even with her trusty Dalmatian, Sprinkles, by her side, Izzy struggles to solve the case.

Collected within this volume are six hardcore tales of men who, through food related means, experience transformation from one gender to the other. Now overwhelmed with feminine arousal, they'll do whatever it takes to experience everything that being a beautiful woman has to offer, starting with their deepest, darkest, erotic desires for hardcore group sex and gangbangs.

Would you like to master the art of making guilt-free, lip-smacking fried foods? Do you want to become an air fryer virtuoso and amaze your family and friends with your skills using the air fryer? If you do, then listen to find out more... Everybody loves fried foods. Crunchy, crispy, or buttery soft, fried food has always appealed to the modern populace and with good reason.

Nagare und seine zwanzigjährige Tochter Koishi betreiben ein kleines Restaurant in Kyoto, das Kamogawa-Café. Kaum jemand kennt das Lokal, doch wer es dringend braucht, der findet es. Neben den traditionellen Köstlichkeiten der japanischen Küche bieten Nagare und Koishi ihren Gästen nämlich einen besonderen Service an: Sie kochen Gerichte nach, die man irgendwann einmal gegessen hat und deren Rezept man nicht kennt.

From the best-selling author of Heartless Heathens, TGSLLPFTM is a killer rom-com, feel-good, magical short story about fated love blooming in the most unexpected of places.

During a 30-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis, Paris was not only the world's most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. The Gourmands' Way explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chronicled the food and wine of this era, paying particular attention to their individual struggles as writers, to their life circumstances, and to their particular genius at sharing awareness of French food with mainstream American audiences.

Peace and quiet are hard to find in bustling Key West, so Hayley Snow, a food critic for Key Zest magazine, is taking the afternoon off for a tranquil lunch with a friend outside of town. As they are enjoying the wild beach and the lunch, she realizes that her husband Nathan’s dog, Ziggy, has disappeared. She follows his barking and finds him furiously digging at a shallow grave with a man’s body in it. Davis Jager, a local birdwatcher, identifies him as GG Garcia, a rabble-rousing Key West local and developer.

Carolyn Marie Wilkins presents Book 2 in the Psychics and Soul Food series.

It is a truth universally acknowledged - cops and donuts go together. Exhibit A: Deputy Donut Cafe, owned and operated by detective's widow Emily Westhill. Named after Emily's adored and adorable tabby, the donut shop is a favorite among cops. But a twisted killer has found another use for Emily's treats. At the picnic, a firecracker is hidden in a stack of raspberry-filled donuts and aimed at the unwitting queen of the festivities. When it explodes, she is killed. Having her jelly donuts involved puts Emily in a sticky situation.

Cava, die Nachfahrin der Liebesgöttin Aphrodite, wurde schon als Mädchen darauf vorbereitet, für Very Happy Meat zu arbeiten, den Lieferservice ihrer Familie. Denn der bringt seinen Kunden nicht einfach Pizza nach Hause: Die Familie macht Jagd auf korrupte Politiker, Serienmörder und andere Schwerverbrecher, um ihre Organe gewinnbringend im Untergrund zu verkaufen. Doch sie findet heraus, dass einer ihrer Brüder dem FBI Informationen hat zukommen lassen - und plötzlich steht die Sicherheit ihrer Familie auf dem Spiel.

Tycho ist als Nachfahrin alter Götter übermenschlich stark. Besonders, wenn sie Alkohol trinkt. Nicht schlecht, um sich als Barkeeperin in New York gegen zwielichtige Typen zu behaupten. Damit niemand von ihrer Herkunft erfährt, muss sie selbst ihren Kindheitsfreund Logan auf Distanz halten. Doch dann taucht die gutaussehende Grayson auf und behauptet, ihr Geheimnis zu kennen. Und als Tycho kurz darauf von einer Sekte entführt wird, die ihre Kräfte für sich beanspruchen will, bleibt ihr nichts anderes übrig, als Grayson zu vertrauen.

It turns out that a fake relationship is the perfect recipe for a love that sizzles hotter than Santa Barbara’s spiciest salsa—when it’s between enemies.… Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he...

Just before fiery food-critic Hayley Snow's mother's decadent flan is put to the test, Key West's most prized possession, Hemingway's Nobel Prize gold medal for The Old Man and the Sea, is discovered stolen from its case. Unsavory suspicions point to Gabriel, a family friend and one of the new busboys working the event, who mysteriously goes missing moments later. Anxious to clear his name, Gabriel's family enlists Hayley to help find him, but right as they begin their search, his body is found stabbed to death in the storeroom.

When the organizing committee for her upcoming high school reunion needs a caterer, Halia agrees to help out. Soon she's serving up her signature macaroni and cheese and famous chicken wings to a host of appreciative ex-classmates. Some folks have blossomed since graduation. Others, like manipulative Raynell Rollins, currently married to a former football star, haven't changed nearly enough. When Raynell is found dead the morning after the reunion, the role call of possible suspects could fill the school gymnasium. Extramarital affairs, mega-church scandals and sports secrets...

Nationally acclaimed storyteller J.J. Reneaux grew up Cajun for true, surrounded by the stories, music, food, and culture of rural communities in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana. A traditional storyteller who collects by word-of-mouth, Reneaux has developed her repertoire over years of collecting on front porches, school playgrounds, and her beloved fishing trips, as well as at nursing homes, airports, and at neighborhood fais-dodos.

Halia Watkins has her hands full cooking, hosting, and keeping her boisterous young cousin, Wavonne, from getting too sassy with customers. Having fast-talking entrepreneur Marcus Rand turn up in her kitchen is annoying enough when he's alive - but finding his dead body face-down on her ceramic tile after hours is much worse. Marcus had his enemies, and the cast iron frying pan beside his corpse suggests that at last, his shady business deals went too far. Halia is desperate to keep Sweet Tea's name out of the sordid spotlight but her efforts only make Wavonne a prime suspect.

As the owner of Mahalia’s Sweet Tea, Halia Watkins is famous in Maryland’s Prince George’s County for her down-home cuisine. But when she has the chance to showcase her talents on national TV, she becomes the star of a murder mystery that’s too hot to handle!

The town of Jewel Bay, Montana - known as a Food Lovers' Village - is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies. But Erin's freshly booming business might go rotten when a former employee turns up dead.