The Romance Recipe


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A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST "The feelings in this one are dialed up so high you almost can’t look at them directly: It would be like staring into the sun... Like Rosie Danan or Kate Clayborn, Barrett has a way of making palpable the full journey of a relationship" –New York Times “Simply put, The Romance Recipe is a treat.” –USA TODAY Amy Chambers: restaurant owner, micromanager, control freak. Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane… Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets, took thirty years to figure out she was queer. Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn’t want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn’t want to deal with Amy’s take-charge personality and she doesn’t want to think about what her attraction to her boss might mean… Then, an opportunity: a new foodie TV show might provide the exposure they need. An uneasy truce is fine for starters, but making their dreams come true means making some personal and painful sacrifices and soon, there’s more than just the restaurant at stake. Carina Adores is home to romantic love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters. Book 1: Hot Copy Book 2: The Romance Recipe




Simple Recipes For Romance


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Simple Recipes for Romance How to add spice to your marriage Have you ever wondered, "Can I really experience romance in marriage or is it just a fairy tale?" Yes you can, if you are willing to make it happen! These simple recipes for romance will provide the ingredients for adding spice back to your marriage. If you use a recipe book to create a meal you will prepare a tasty delight. By following these "Simple Recipes for Romance" you will experience a FEAST! Steve Tucker has tested and applied these recipes throughout his 29 years of marriage. His desire is for couples to enjoy their relationship in the midst of life's challenges. With these simple recipes for romance, you can do it! "Who doesn't want spice in their marriage? Yet there are many couples who have forgotten what "spice" smells or tastes like and their most important relationship has grown stagnant and stale. If you want a thriving marriage that is growing more in love everyday there is only one book I would recommend . and you are looking at it." Roger Gibson Speaker & Author, First Comes Love, Then Comes Money Smalley Relationship Center Steve Tucker is co-founder and president of Eagle Family Ministries in Bentonville, Arkansas. He has spent the past 12 years leading seminars and retreats on romance in marriage. He was in church ministry from 1975 through 1996 when EFM was founded. Steve is a graduate of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri and John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Rapport Leadership International School of Leadership Development, as well as a member of the AACC. Steve is certified in several marriage communication programs and is a relationship coach. Steve and Susan were married in 1979 and have two sons.




A Recipe for Romance


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This collection features contemporary and historical stories as well as sweet tales with a touch of suspense.




Something Wild & Wonderful


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From the author of Love & Other Disasters comes a sparkling sullen-meets-sunshine romance featuring two men's sweeping journey across the Western wilderness. Alexei Lebedev’s journey on the Pacific Crest Trail begins with a single snake. And it is angling for the hot stranger who seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Lex is prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he isn’t prepared for is Ben Caravalho. But somehow—on a 2,500-mile trail—Alexei keeps running into the outgoing and charismatic hiker with golden-brown eyes, again and again. It might be coincidence. Then again, maybe there’s a reason the trail keeps bringing them together . . . Ben has made his fair share of bad decisions, and almost all of them involved beautiful men. And yet there’s something about the gorgeous and quietly nerdy Alexei that Ben can’t just walk away from. Surely a bad decision can’t be this cute and smart. And there are worse things than falling in love during the biggest adventure of your life. But when their plans for the future are turned upside down, Ben and Alexei begin to wonder if it’s possible to hold on to something this wild and wonderful.




Death in the Romance Aisle


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Rarity Cole is taking full advantage of her second chance at life after recovering from breast cancer—running a bookstore in Sedona and a support group for fellow survivors. She’s also discovered a knack for defeating other kinds of deadly threats . . . Rarity is excited about expanding the romance section of her store—but not nearly as excited as her best friend Sam is about reuniting with her brother after many years. Marcus makes the trek from California to Arizona, is welcomed with a party, and hints that he may stick around now that remote work is an option. But is it just a coincidence that not long after his arrival, a body is found near a local swimming hole? Especially considering that the dead woman had recently gone on a date with him—and even worse, that Marcus has a startling secret in his past? The police suspect him, but Rarity hopes to find another explanation before Sam is once again separated from her sibling—by prison walls . . . Includes a yummy recipe!




Shades of an Alpha: Free Paranormal Romance


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Free Book 1 Sneak Preview The life of a werewolf is never easy...especially as an alpha. Lela Strickland is a female alpha that is bored with the lies of the male population and the constant relationship problems. Trying hard to to be done with love, she settles to a mundane life until she meets Bryce the Billionaire. Their chance encounter turns into a mistake that only Lela can undo. On her quest to fix the life altering problem, fate intervenes and turns her life upside down. Lela soon finds out trying to avoid what the moon has planned will only have you seeing stars. Read book 1 of this of Shades of an Alpha, a paranormal steamy romance. (8,000 Words) Keywords: Free Book, Free Paranormal, Free Urban Fantasy, Free Romance, Free paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Romance Paranormal, Freebie, Free Reads




Tasteful Domesticity


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Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge between the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteenth century. Cookbooks represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs, and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women's roles as republican mothers, sentimental evangelists, wartime fundraisers, home economists, and social reformers. Beginning in the early republic and tracing the cookbook through the publishing boom of the nineteenth century, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive era, and rising racial tensions of the early twentieth century, Sarah W. Walden examines the role of taste as an evolving rhetorical strategy that allowed diverse women to engage in public discourse through published domestic texts.




Sangria


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Rose has lost her sense of taste and smell. And along with it the zest for life. Friendships are not working. Family is falling apart. And Love is a distant dream. Rose is truly at the Crossroads. Then she meets Isabel. A mysterious gypsy at an Australian vegetable market. Isabel introduces Rose to the Magic of ancient herbs and Recipes. These Recipes don't just cook up a terrific meal - they begin to work Magic in the life of Rose. The stakes are high : Friends, Family & Love. Will Rose be able to turn around her life? Can Isabel help Rose rediscover her sense of taste and smell? In the first ever book about cookery in Fiction form, Manuela Requena, has created a beautiful story about the essence of life. Read it for the Romance and the Passion and yes memorize these 25 Magic Recipes. They are the true Secrets of this book. Manuela Requena's magical book Sangria is a Fiction Cookbook, with Spanish Recipes, The Love of Food and full of ancient wisdom. Fiction Cookbook, Spanish Recipes, The Love of Food blend beautifully in the world's first recipe book in fiction form - Manuela Requena's Sangria. This Fiction Cookbook, full of Spanish Recipes, and The Love of Food is really magical and helps make better friends, find new lovers and bring your family together. Sangria is Fiction Cookbook, about Spanish Recipes and about love - The Love of Food and the love that food can cook up.




Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500


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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over seventy late medieval manuscripts, this book explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to those texts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose. The study therefore presents a challenge to recipes' traditional reputation as mundane, unartful texts written and read solely for the sake of directing practical action. Crucially, it also relocates these neglected texts and overlooked manuscripts within the complex networks forming medieval textual culture, demonstrating that—though marginalized in modern scholarship—medical recipes were actually linguistically, formally, materially, and imaginatively interconnected with many other late medieval discourses, including devotional writings, romances, fabliaux, and Chaucerian poetry. The monograph thus models for readers modes of analysis and close reading that might be deployed in relation to recipes in order to understand better their allusive, fragmentary, and playful qualities as well as their wide-ranging influence on medieval imaginations.