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The Undomestic Goddess

Sophie Kinsella · 416 pages

Chef or BakerFinding PurposeFemale LeadFunny
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Happy Cafe, Volume 2

Kou Matsuzuki, Matsuzuki Kou

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunnyFemale Lead
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Happy Cafe, Vol. 1

Kou Matsuzuki

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFemale LeadFunny
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My Life in France

Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme · 344 pages

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the coun

Chef or BakerStarting OverFunnyFemale Lead
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Bet Me

Jennifer Crusie · 363 pages

From the back cover: Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great shoes and keeps him on his toes. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they

Chef or BakerFemale LeadSelf-DiscoveryStarting Over
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Delicious!

Ruth Reichl · 400 pages

A New York Times Bestselling Author Billie Breslin traveled from her California home to take a job at Delicious, the most iconic food magazine in New York. When the publication is suddenly shut down, the staff, now Billie's extended family, must move on. But Billie is offered the job of staying behind in the deserted downtown mansion offices to uphold the "Delicious Guarantee." What she doesn't kn

Chef or BakerStarting OverFemale LeadFinding Purpose
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A Taste of Magic

Tracy Madison · 292 pages

Elizabeth Stevens' birthday is not going well-- not only is it also the anniversary of her husband's desertion, but she has to make a wedding cake for him! Things start looking up, however, when her slightly witchy grandmother Verda passes on some ancient Gypsy magic to her.

Chef or BakerStarting OverFunnyMagical Realism
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Marjane Satrapi · 187 pages

187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmGN500L Lexile

Graphic Novel & MangaStarting OverFunnyFemale Lead
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Julie Powell · 309 pages

Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves from

Chef or BakerFinding PurposeFemale LeadFunny
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Antique Bakery, Volume 2

Fumi Yoshinaga · 208 pages

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunnyContemporary Fiction
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Chef or BakerFunnyStarting OverFemale Lead
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Bob's Burgers, Volume 1

Chad Brewster, Jeff Drake, Justin Hook, Rachel Hastings, Mike Olsen · 108 pages

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunnyAbsurdist Humor
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Skip Beat!, Vol. 01

Yoshiki Nakamura · 184 pages

Kyoko followed her true love, Sho, to Tokyo and supported him while he made it big as an idol. Now, he says she means nothing to him, so Kyoko sets out to become even bigger than Sho, but finds that her bitter heart may be her undoing.

Graphic Novel & MangaFunnyFemale LeadAbsurdist Humor
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Brandon Sanderson · 480 pages

Chef or BakerFunnyFinding PurposeFemale Lead
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Jorge Amado · 553 pages

*Dona Flor* is (literally) an adorable woman—with a body made for love, a mind of her own, a cozy disposition, a witty tongue, a kissable face, high moral principles— and she can cook, too. (Her cooking school is all the rage in Salvador.) One wants her to have everything. One wants her to escape from her monumental dragon of a mother into the arms of the best of husbands. One wants her to hav

Chef or BakerFemale LeadFunnyDark Comedy
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Nuts

Alice Clayton · 308 pages

"The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a brand new series set in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley. Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood's wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, b

Chef or BakerStarting OverFemale LeadFunny
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

Jenny Colgan · 368 pages

Chef or BakerFunnyStarting OverFemale Lead
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Food Wars!, Vol. 3

Yuto Tsukuda · 197 pages

"The "friendship and team-building" camp from hell begins! While most students are already petrified by the threat of instant expulsion for low marks, the unveiling of the teachers responsible for judging their dishes ratchets their fear to a whole new level! Just which anxiety-inducing teachers hold the culinary futures of Soma and the rest of the Polaris crew in their hands this time? Includes t

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunny
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The Next Best Thing

Jennifer Weiner · 389 pages

Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.

FunnyStarting OverFinding PurposeFemale Lead
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One Piece, Volume 06: The Oath

Eiichiro Oda · 192 pages

Luffy sets his sights on Sanji as their new cook but it will take more than a little sweet talk to get him to join Luffy's team. His vow to feed any and all pirates in need keeps getting in the way.

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunny
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Chew, Vol. 2: International Flavor

John Layman · 128 pages

Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is on a bizarre new case. A newly discovered fruit takes Agent Chu to a remote island full of secrets, strangeness-and a shadowy killer with a particularly sinister appetite.

Graphic Novel & MangaChef or BakerFunnyAbsurdist Humor
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Sourdough

Robin Sloan · 272 pages

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Loi

Chef or BakerFunnyFemale LeadMagical Realism
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Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit: Lunch Lady #5

Jarrett J. Krosoczka · 102 pages

Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch must figure out who is stealing the goods from the bake sale.

Chef or BakerGraphic Novel & MangaFunnyFemale Lead
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When in Doubt, Add Butter

Beth Harbison · 384 pages

Chef or BakerStarting OverFemale LeadFunny

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