Do you have a craving that you just can’t quite quench? 

 

Time to treat yourself to these decadent morsels of yummy goodness at your Yorktown Public Library!

 

 

IN THE CHILDREN’S COLLECTION

 

The Cookie Crumbles by Tracy Badua

The Great British Bake Off meets Knives Out in this fun and propulsive middle grade novel following two best friends who must solve the mystery behind a baking competition gone awry.  Laila gave Lucy a cupcake on the second day of kindergarten, and they've been inseparable ever since. When Laila is invited to compete at the Golden Cookie competition a celebrity judge collapses after sampling Laila's showpiece and rumors of foul play swirl, with Laila rising to the top of the suspect list.  Can the girls find the real culprit and clear Laila's name before it's too late?

BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book and an eBook.

 

Cookie Rescue by Susan Ring

Manny and the tools are on the way to Mrs. Portillo's house for some of her delicious homemade cookies. There is just one problem--Mrs. Portillo's oven has broken and her new one is stuck outside on her porch. Manny and the tools are on the case adjusting Mrs. Portillo's doors so they can fit the new oven inside the house. The reward for all their hard work? All the freshly baked cookies they can eat! Preschoolers will find reading easy with this Pre-Level 1 Early Reader. 

 

All for Pie, Pie for All by David Martin

Grandma Cat bakes an apple pie that is heartily enjoyed by her family as well as the Mouse and Ant families that live nearby.

 

The Humble Pie by Jory John

Serve up the eighth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series from Jory John and Pete Oswald.  The Humble Pie likes to give others the spotlight. Aw, shucks! --they deserve it!  But when he's paired with his best friend, Jake the Cake, for a school project, he soon realizes that staying in the shadows isn't always as sweet as pie. Readers of all ages will laugh along as their new pie pal discovers that letting your voice be heard always takes the cake!

 

Apple of My Pie (Norma and Betty #2) by Mika Song

Join troublemaking squirrels Norma and Belly on more delicious adventures in the sequel to the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Donut Feed the Squirrels, the perfect next-read for fans of Narwhal & Jelly!  When local park fixture (and spy-master) Pops gets squirrel-napped, it's up to Norma, Belly, and their friend little B to save him! This time, their adventure takes them out of the park--and into the uncharted territory of . . . the local apple orchard.  Where can Pops be? Will this adventure end in tragedy . . . or in apple pie? Or both? With these best friends on the case, you never know what's coming next--but you can be sure there will be friends and delicious foods along the way.

 

IN THE ADULT COLLECTION

 

The Secret of the Orange Blossom Cake: A Novel by Rachel Lindon

Rising star Jules Costa loves re-creating vintage recipes for her popular online cooking show. But when personal and professional disaster strikes, her only chance to save her career is to complete her new cookbook before the end of the summer. Panicked, Jules returns to her family's beloved olive farm on the shores of Italy's stunning Lake Garda. Seeking culinary inspiration, she's hoping to convince her spunky eighty-year-old Nonna Bruna to share her precious collection of family recipes.

BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book and an eBook.

 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery #1) by Joanne Fluke

Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn't watch her back, Hannah's sweet life may get burned to a crisp.

BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book and an eBook.

 

The Lopsided Christmas Cake (Lopsided Christmas Cake #1) by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Join the Hochstetler twin sisters on stage as they bumble their way through baking a cake for a charity auction in front of a live audience. The take-charge Elma and the klutzy optimist Thelma manage to entertain their audience--and attract the admiration of two bachelors, an outspoken woodworker and a shy harness maker from a neighboring Amish community. As fall leads into the Christmas season, could romance be blossoming for one or more of the Hochstetler twins? Find out in this brand-new romance from New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, writing with her daughter-in-law Jean Brunstetter.

 

ON THE LIBBY APP

 

The Cowboy Cookie Challenge: A Twilight, Texas Novel (eBook) by Lori Wilde

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde returns to Twilight, Texas, with a delicious love story about a sexy cowboy and a love-shy nurse determined to win the Christmas Cookie Bake-off challenge. He's sexy, single, and he can bake!  Roan Sullivan is the answer to Jazzy Walker's prayers. The doting single dad is also fresh off his win on a popular cooking show and a whiz at campfire cooking, so who better to help her win this year's annual cookie bake-off? With his help, Jazzy is sure she can finally take first prize right out the grasping hands of Andi Browning, the gal who stole her fiancé right from under her nose.

 

The Secret to the Hummingbird Cake (eBook) by Celeste Fletcher McHale

Friends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins. Through it all, they search for the secret to the divine taste of hummingbird cake--and to friendships that never end.

 

The Cake Therapist (eBook) by Judith Fertig

Claire "Neely" O'Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent. Every great chef can taste shimmering, elusive flavors that most of us miss, but Neely can "taste" feelings--cinnamon makes you remember; plum is pleased with itself; orange is a wake-up call. When flavor and feeling give Neely a glimpse of someone's inner self, she can customize her creations to help that person celebrate love, overcome fear, even mourn a devastating loss.  Maybe that's why she feels the need to go home to Millcreek Valley at a time when her life seems about to fall apart. The bakery she opens in her hometown is perfect, intimate, just what she's always dreamed of--and yet, as she meets her new customers, Neely has a sense of secrets, some dark, some perhaps with tempting possibilities. A recurring flavor of alarming intensity signals to her perfect palate a long-ago story that must be told.  Neely has always been able to help everyone else. Getting to the end of this story may be just what she needs to help herself.

BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book.

 

A Pie for a Pie (eBook) by London Lovett

It's a crisp autumn in Ripple Creek, and Scottie Ramone is busy baking pumpkin pies for the town's pie eating contest. Business is great, but her social life is still in tatters. She's avoiding one man and the other man has left town for a very prolonged book tour. She knows definitively which way her heart is leaning, but is it too late?  In the meantime, the pie contest ends in disaster when one of the contestants dies right after eating a pie she made.  Scottie is desperate to find the killer and clear her name, but there are many directions to turn, and it seems everyone has a motive. Customers are canceling their holiday orders, and if Scottie doesn't solve the case soon, her bakery will be ruined.

 

The Icing on the Cake (audio book) by Linda Seed

She's a baker without a kitchen. He's got a double oven to spare. It's a recipe for success, until his mother starts stirring up trouble.  Cassie Jordan has a sweet dream to open a bakery specializing in wedding cakes. The problem is, the Airstream trailer where she lives has a kitchen the size of a postage stamp, and her job as housekeeper for a vacation rental agency doesn't pay enough for her to find other arrangements. When the renters at one of the houses in her care cancel their stay, leaving the house empty and its top-of-the-line kitchen unused, who could blame her for seeing it as an opportunity?  The Icing on the Cake is a stand-alone novel in Linda Seed's Otter Bluff small-town romance series.

 

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake (eBook) by Amy E. Reichert

A charming romantic comedy about a talented chef and the anonymous food critic who nearly destroys her restaurant--only to fall for her in real life--in this delightful enemies-to-lovers love story set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Lou works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling French restaurant. She balances the pressures of running a small business with wedding plans and a demanding fiancé...until the morning she discovers him in the buff--with an intern. Meanwhile, witty yet gruff British transplant Al keeps himself employed--and entertained--by writing scathing restaurant reviews for the local newspaper under a pseudonym. When an anonymous tip sends him to Luella's on the worst day of Lou's life, he delivers a devastating critique: underdone fish, scorched sauce, distracted service. The fallout could close her doors for good.

 

Sweet’s Sweets: A Sweet’s Sweets Bakery Mystery by Connie Shelton (eBook)

Samantha Sweet is about to realize her dream of opening her pastry shop, Sweet's Sweets, in picturesque Taos, New Mexico. Juggling the crazy amount of work to get her new business off the ground, with her old job of breaking into houses, she's got her hands full. When a blood-soaked garment is found among the discards at one of her properties, and a friend makes a shocking confession, Sam finds herself pulled into a pair of mysteries.

 

Truffle Trouble by Amanda Flowers (eBook)

Summer is finally upon the village of Harvest, Ohio, nestled in picturesque Amish Country, and folks are abuzz over their very own Bailey King's upcoming June wedding. The Amish Candy shop owner and star of TV's Bailey's Amish Sweets is marrying Holmes County Sheriff Aiden Brody. To sweeten the occasion will be a scrumptious giant chocolate truffle wedding cake, made especially for the happy couple by Bailey's New York City mentor, Jean Pierre. Other than the risk of the ring bearer, Jethro the pig, taking a bite out of the confection, what could go wrong?

BONUS:  This material is also available as an audio book.

 

IN THE DVD COLLECTION

 

Strawberry Shortcake: Adventures on Ice Cream Island (Rated G)

When Honey Pie pony meets other horses on Ice Cream Island, she thinks she should move there. But once she realizes how much her human pals need her back home, she reconsiders. The festival of the fillies: Honey Pie is thrilled to join in the annual festivities on Ice Cream Island. After she attracts the attention of a nasty horse show owner, though, the kids must work together to keep her - and the other horses - out of his reach.

 

Ace of Cakes Takeout Collection:  The First Season

Chef Duff Goldman and his staff design unexpected and entertaining confections, from a seven-tiered wedding cake to an almost perfect replica of Wrigley Field.

 

The Great British Baking Show: Season 1

Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.'s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds, judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

 

Modern Marvels Technology: Candy and Sugar

This 2-disc set includes interesting facts about candy, all things chocolate, old-fashioned candy making, Jelly Belly jelly beans, gourmet candy and more.

 

As we welcome the sweet arrival of summer...

Now is the perfect time to delight in our collection’s confections.  Indulge in a tasty treat for your literary sweet tooth at your Yorktown Public Library.  It’s a piece of cake!