100 Best Chocolate Books of All Time

We've ranked the best chocolate books using expert recommendations, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.

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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

5.0
Now a Broadway musical!

Roald Dahl's iconic story of a little boy, a golden ticket, and a fantastical chocolate factory has been adapted into a wonderful new musical. This edition has a great new cover featuring the musical's poster art and a foreword by Jack O'Brien, Tony Award-winning Director.

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed
Tilly Burn portrait Recommended by Tilly Burn.
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The Chocolate Touch

Patrick Skene Catling

4.7
In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate! This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

Can you ever have too much of your favorite foo
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Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

Joanne Harris

4.5
A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.

Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakenin
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Chocolate Fever

Robert Kimmel Smith, Gioia Fiammenghi

4.5
Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you can possibly imagine. Henry probably loves chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world. One day-it starts off like any other day-Henry finds that strange things are happening to him. First he makes me
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Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen

4.4
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.

The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphi
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The True History of Chocolate

Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe

4.4
Book by Coe, Sophie D., Coe, Michael D.
Dr Matthew Green portrait Recommended by Dr Matthew Green.
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Making Artisan Chocolates

Andrew Garrison Shotts

4.4
Forget milk chocolate molded into childish candy bars. Today's chocolate candies use chocolates with high cocoa content and less sugar then previously available and are molded into highly decorated pieces of art. Once only accessible to pastry chefs and candy makers, home cooks can now purchase high-end domestic and imported chocolates in their local specialty stores. The recent availability of bi
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Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Technique for the Artisan Confectioner

Peter P. Greweling

4.3
The comprehensive guide to chocolate and candy making for professionals and serious home cooks Chocolate and candy making is more popular and accessible than it has ever been. This book combines artisan confectionery techniques with straightforward explanations of the theory, science, and formulas at work. Fundamental information includes ingredient function and use, chocolate processing, and arti
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The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Joël Glenn Brenner

4.3
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

J.K. Rowling

4.3
For Twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black m
Maude Garrett portrait Recommended by Maude Garrett.
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This Book Is Not Good for You (Secret, #3)

Pseudonymous Bosch

4.3
Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you...and this story is particularly scrumptious!

In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnapped
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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

Deborah Cadbury

4.3
The true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)

Joanne Fluk

4.2
Discover the delicious mystery that started it all!

No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke's dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes one delicious clue at a time has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some
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All These Things I've Done (Birthright, #1)

Gabrielle Zevin

4.2
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

4.2
Now that Charlie has won the chocolate factory, what's next? Even wilder adventures, that'swhat! Join him, Grandpa Joe, and, of course, Willy Wonka for the amazing, intergalactic sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
Tom McLaughlin portrait Recommended by Tom McLaughlin.
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The Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate

Robert Steinberg, John Scharffenberger

4.2
The first cookbook from America's premier chocolate makers, filled with recipes, kitchen tips, and dazzling photographs

As Americans have become fascinated by chocolate, and especially high-quality chocolate, one name has risen above the rest: Scharffen Berger. Founded in 1996 by Robert Steinberg, a physician and amateur chef, and John Scharffenberger, an award-winning vintner, the company's confec

David Lebovitz portrait Recommended by David Lebovitz.
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Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts

Alice Medrich

4.2
James Beard Foundation 1991 Cookbook of the Year!
"Cocolat is to chocolate what Tiffany is to diamonds." — Gourmet magazine.
One of America's leading chocolatiers and the founder of the famous Cocolat shops shares the secrets behind her decadent, European-style desserts in this beautifully illustrated, easy-to-follow guide. Alice Medrich founded the first in a chain of chocolate shops in 1976, intro
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The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (Tales from the Chocolate Heart, #1)

Stephanie Burgis

4.2
Aventurine is the fiercest, bravest dragon there is. And she's ready to prove it to her family by leaving the safety of their mountain cave and capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human. But when the human she finds tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, Aventurine is transformed into a puny human girl with tiny blunt teeth, no fire, and not one single claw.

But she's still the f
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The Chocolate Bear Burglary (A Chocoholic Mystery, #2)

JoAnna Carl

4.2
CONFESSIONS OF A CONFECTIONER

After leaving her bad-news husband back in Texas, Lee McKinney moved up north to a quaint resort town. Now she keeps the books for her aunt's luxury-chocolate shop. But Lee soon finds that Michigan winters can be murder....



Lee and Aunt Nettie can't believe their luck. A teddy bear promotion will have tourists flocking to Warner Pier, which could mean skyrocketing sales
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Seduction and Snacks (Chocolate Lovers, #1)

Tara Sivec and Madison Seidle

4.2
An alternate cover of this ASIN can be found here.

Claire is a twenty-something, single mom that grudgingly helps her best friend sell sex toys while she attempts to make enough money to start her own business to give her foul-mouthed, but extremely loveable (when he's asleep) toddler a better life.

When Carter, the one-night-stand from her past that changed her life forever, shows up in her hometo
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

Jenny Colgan

4.2
Life is sweet in this heartwarming tale of a little chocolate shop in Paris, by the bestselling author of Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams and Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe.

Mouth-watering recipes inside!

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate;
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Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory

H. A. Rey and Margret Rey

4.2
When George and the man with the yellow hat stop to shop at a chocolate factory store, George becomes curious about how chocolates are made. Though he begins to follow the factory tour, George is soon off on his own to investigate. The adventures of Curious George continue in an all-new series beginning in fall 1998 with eight new stories. Written and illustrated in the style of Margret and H. A.
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The Girl with No Shadow (Chocolat, #2)

Joanne Harris

4.2
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the weather vane soon turns, and Zoz
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CHOCOLATE: The Consuming Passion

Sandra Boynton

4.2
Wait. Sandra Boynton wrote a book about CHOCOLATE? For grown-ups?

Oh YES! Boynton’s beloved classic returns, updated and redrawn by her for a whole new generation of chocophiles. In addition to her extensive new research, Boynton also nobly sourced and consumed untold quantities of great chocolate, with no thought for her own personal safety.

Lavishly illustrated and filled with useful facts and c
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Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake

Michael Kaplan and Stephane Jorisch

4.2
Meet Betty Bunny, a loveable handful nobunny can resist.

From author Michael B. Kaplan, creator of Disney's T.V. show Dog with a Blog, comes the debut picture book of the Betty Bunny series. It's a story about patience--seen through the eyes of a precocious preschooler.

Betty Bunny is the youngest in her family of rabbits and she's just discovering the important things in life, like chocolate cake
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The Art of the Chocolatier: From Classic Confections to Sensational Showpieces

Ewald Notter

4.1
A must-have guide to chocolate making and chocolate showpiece design, from renowned confectionery expert Ewald Notter Covering the full spectrum of chocolate work-from the fundamentals of chocolate making to instruction on advanced showpiece design and assembly-The Art of the Chocolatier is the most complete and comprehensive guide to chocolate-making on the market. The book covers basic informati
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The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle (A Chocoholic Mystery, #4)

JoAnna Carl

4.1
Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet nothings-and she grows even more suspicious when she stumbles upon a dead body.
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The Chocolate Cat Caper (A Chocoholic Mystery, #1)

JoAnna Carl

4.1

After giving up her career as a Texas trophy wife, 28-year-old Lee McKinney finds herself in a Michigan resort town, keeping the books for her Aunt Nettie’s luxury chocolate business. But she soon finds that her new life isn’t all truffles and bonbons!

Clementine Ripley, the defense attorney everyone loves to hate, is throwing a party that calls for several thousand dollars worth of custom chocola

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Julia's Chocolates

Cathy Lamb

4.1
"I left my wedding dress hanging in a tree somewhere in North Dakota. I don't know why that particular tree appealed to me. Perhaps it was because it looked as if it had given up and died years ago and was still standing because it didn't know what else to do..."

In her deliciously funny, heartfelt, and moving debut, Cathy Lamb introduces some of the most wonderfully eccentric women since The Divi

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The Chocolate Bridal Bash (A Chocoholic Mystery, #6)

JoAnna Carl

4.1
Caught up in a whirl of champagne and china patterns, bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over every detail of the wedding bash. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own mother. But this is bigger than the hot versus cold hors d’oeuvres debate: Sally McKinney doesn’t even want to be at the wedding if it takes place in Warner Pier, her hometown.Irked that
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Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts

Alice Medrich, Michael Lamotte

4.1
For the connoisseurs who prized Cocolat--Medrich's award-winning book of lavish chocolate desserts--here is the brilliant follow-up cookbook of delicious, amazingly low-fat treats. This richly illustrated, full-color guide features more than 80 recipes.
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The One and Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao

4.1
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.

Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks ab
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The Dandelion Chocolate Book: Making Chocolate from Bean to Bar to Brownie

Dandelion Chocolate

4.1
One of the country's most celebrated craft chocolate makers explains how to make chocolate from scratch in your own kitchen. From sourcing beans to the mechanics and machinery of making bars, this is the first ever guide to making chocolate from start to finish, with 30 recipes for desserts and treats.
Founded in 2011 as a quirky passion project by two friends from the San Francisco tech world, D
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The Science of Chocolate

Stephen T Beckett

4.1
The second edition of this international best seller has been fully revised and updated describing the complete chocolate making process, from the growing of the beans to the sale in the shops. The Science of Chocolate takes the reader on the journey of chocolate, to discover how confectionery is made and the way in which basic science plays a vital role. The second edition contains new chapters,
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Death by Chocolate

Sally C Berneathy

4.1
Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blond hair brown, hides from everybody and insists on always having an emergency exit from any room. S
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We're Different, We're the Same

Bobbi Kates and Joe Mathieu

4.1
Who better than Sesame Street to teach us that we may all look different on the outside--but it's important to remember that deep down, we are all very much alike. We all have the same needs, desires, and feelings. Elmo and his Sesame Street friends help teach toddlers and the adults in their lives that everyone is the same on the inside, and it's our differences that make this wonderful world, wh
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

Steve Almond

4.1
A self-professed candyfreak, Steve Almond set out in search of a much-loved candy from his childhood and found himself on a tour of the small candy companies that are persevering in a marketplace where big corporations dominate.
From the Twin Bing to the Idaho Spud, the Valomilk to the Abba-Zaba, and discontinued bars such as the Caravelle, Marathon, and Choco-Lite, Almond uncovers a trove of sing
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Peaches for Father Francis (Chocolat, #3)

Joanne Harris

4.1
The tantalizing sequel to the blockbuster New York Times bestseller Chocolat

Even before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism, whimsy, and, of course, chocolate. Now, at last, Chocolat’s heroine returns to the beautiful French village of Lansquenet in another, equally beguiling tal
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Baked to Perfection: Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022

Katarina Cermelj

4.1

"If you could buy just one book on gluten-free baking, my pick would be Baked to Perfection . . . It is that good." -Bon AppetitWinner of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022IACP Award finalist in Baking Sweet & Savory, Confections and Desserts The only gluten-free baking book you'll ever need, with delicious recipes that work perfectly every time.From proper crusty bread, pillowy soft c

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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

Margot Theis Raven

4.1
The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Chris Myers Asch

4.1
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war
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Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook

Jose Andres, Matt Goulding

4.1
From the endlessly inventive imaginations of star Spanish-American chef José Andrés and James Beard award-winning writer Matt Goulding, Vegetables Unleashed is a new cookbook that will transform how we think about—and eat—the vast universe of vegetables.

Andrés is famous for his unstoppable energy—and for his belief that vegetables are far sexier than meat can ever be. Showing us how to creatively
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Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)

Nora Roberts

4.1
With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: a land of lush forests, dazzling lakes, and centuries-old legends.

Ireland.

County Mayo, to be exact. Where her ancestors’ blood and magic have flowed through generations—and where her destiny awaits.

Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan’s directio
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The Sweetest Spell

Suzanne Selfors

4.1
Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher's daughter, has escaped death twice-first, on the night she was born, and second, on the day her entire village was swept away by flood. Left with nothing and no one, Emmeline discovers her rare and mysterious ability-she can churn milk into chocolate, a delicacy more precious than gold.

Suddenly, the most unwanted girl in Anglund finds herself desired by all. But
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Futures and Frosting (Chocolate Lovers, #2)

Tara Sivec and Maxann Dobso

4.1
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 1478314605

Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future. Or are they?

From bachelorette party hell, porn addictions, dinner roll baseball and botched wedding proposals to finding out everyone's extended family is chock ful
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Because It Is My Blood (Birthright, #2)

Gabrielle Zevin

4.1
“Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in.”- Michael Corleone, The Godfather

Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Me
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Roald Dahl Collection

Roald Dahl

4.1
With striking new jackets and a new slipcase for 2016, all adorned with Quentin Blake's timeless illustrations, this 15-book collection brings together all of Roald Dahl's classic children's novels. Stories that have shocked, excited, entertained and delighted generations of children, this great value collection includes the likes of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and Fantasti
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Chocolate for Beginners: Techniques and Recipes for Making Chocolate Candy, Confections, Cakes and More

Kate Shaffer

4.1
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The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes

Maricel E. Presilla

4.1
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No Monkeys, No Chocolate

Melissa Stewart, Allen Young, Nicole Wong

4.1
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist?

This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn’t survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen-sucking midge, an aphid-mu
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Love and Lists (Chocoholics, #1)

Tara Sive

4.1
Love and Lists is the first book in the Chocolate Lovers spinoff - Chocoholics: The foul-mouthed offspring tell their stories.

Twenty-five-year-old Gavin Ellis has always had the love and support of his family ever since he was a little boy and couldn't stop talking about his penis. He's also always had their unsolicited advice and uncanny knack of embarrassing him at all costs. Now that he's an ad
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Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)

Diane Mott Davidson

4.1
The Caterer

Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking a huge bite out of her budget, and two enticing men knocking on her door.

The Dish

Now determined to take control of her life, Goldy moves her business and her so
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Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: Celebrating the Origins, the Makers, and the Mind-Blowing Flavors behind America's Craft Chocolate Revolution

Megan Giller

4.1
Every page of Bean-to-Bar Chocolate provides a lively and mouthwatering window into the world of American craft chocolate. Readers will discover what makes “bean-to-bar” chocolate so special, while colorful graphics explain how chocolate makers source their cocoa beans and how those beans get turned into chocolate of all flavors. Author Megan Giller includes delicious suggestions for reader to c
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The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase (The Candymakers #2)

Wendy Mass

4.1
The highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Candymakers by beloved author Wendy Mass

It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong....

When the
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Chocolate: From Simple Cookies to Extravagant Showstoppers

Nick Malgieri

4.1
Nick Malgieri, who taught us everything we need to know about baking in How to Bake, takes on chocolate, the world's favorite food. With the authoritative accessibility he brings to his teaching, Nick bridges the gap between the professional baker and the home cook. He knows techniques and ingredients and he teaches them with hand-holding efficiency. In ten chapters, Nick offers a primer on basics
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The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)

Robert Cormier

4.1
Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret school society called The Vigils, his defiant act turns into an all-out war. Now the only question is: Who will survive? First published in 1974, Robert Cormie
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The Chocolate Lovers' Diet

CAROLE MATTHEWS

4.1
The feisty members of THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS' CLUB are back in a mouth-wateringly delicious new novel.

Lucy Lombard thought her 'Happily Ever After' was all sewn up when her gorgeous boss Aidan declared his love for her, but she's just caught him in bed with another woman. As always, she's not the only one with problems - Autumn's new boyfriend has yet to meet her parents, Nadia's husband swears he's
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The Chocolate Pirate Plot (A Chocoholic Mystery, #10)

JoAnna Carl

4.1
Ever since Young Blackbeard became a hit movie, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolate is selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships.

When Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're stunned when a mischievous band of pirates hops on board. Lee's is the first boat boarded that summer, a
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The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka

Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

4.0
A dazzling volume containing two classic Roald Dahl novels! Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka have been children's favorites for generations. Now their two books are available in one stunning edition! In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory are opening at last . . . and only five children will be allowed inside. And then in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevat
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Chez Panisse Vegetables

Alice L. Waters

4.0
For twenty-five years, Alice Waters and her friends at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California have dedicated themselves to the ideal of serving the finest, freshest foods with simplicity and style. From tender baby asparagus in early spring, to the colorful spectrum of peppers at the height of summer; crisp, leafy chicories in autumn, to sweet butternut squash in the dark of winter, much of the insp
Jojo Tulloh portrait Recommended by Jojo Tulloh.
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The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

Kate Saunders

4.0
Welcome to the most magical house in London.

Oz and Lily's family have inherited it, together with the mysterious shop downstairs. Long ago, its famous chocolate-makers were clever sorcerers. Now evil villains are hunting the secret of their greatest recipe. The terrifying power of this magic chocolate could destroy the world.

The children are swept into a thrilling battle, helped by an invisible ca
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Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Cookbook Guide to Southern Baking) – The Perfect Cozy Gift for Bakers, Chefs, and Foodies

Anne Byrn

4.0

Enjoy mouthwatering Southern baking recipes, from biscuits and cornbread to cakes and rolls, that will warm your kitchen and your heart.Prepare yourself to savor the South through the baking that made it famous. In Baking in the American South, bestselling author Anne Byrn brings one of the world's richest culinary traditions to life with 200 recipes from 14 states. Get ready to bake like a Southe

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Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light

Mort Rosenblum

4.0
The delectable journey into the world of chocolate--by the award-winning author of Olives

Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's the Valentine's Day drug of choice, has more antioxidants than red wine, and triggers the same brain responses as falling in love. Nothing, in the end, can stand up to chocolate as a basi
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Roald Dahl Phizz-Whizzing Collection: 15 Book Box Set in Slipcover

Roald Dahl

4.0
The Phizz-Whizzing Collection. What a great book set! Includes 15 fantastic stories from "The World's No. 1 Storyteller" Roald Dahl. This set includes: 1. The Witches, 2. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, 3. Matilda, 4. The BFG, 5. Going Solo, 6. George's Marvellous Medicine, 7. Danny the Champion of the World, 8. James and the Giant Peach, 9. The Twits, 10. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, 1
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The Bitter Side of Sweet

Tara Sullivan

4.0
Two young boys must escape a life of slavery in modern-day Ivory Coast

Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. This number is very important. The higher the number the safer they are because the bosses won’t beat them. The higher the number the closer they are to p
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Troubles and Treats (Chocolate Lovers, #3)

Tara Sivec and Maxann Dobso

4.0
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN13 9781301954193

Drew and Jenny have spent years being the envy of their friends with their out of control sex lives - well, not really. Mostly it makes their friends want to throw up in their mouths a little.

With two little kids and two busy lives, for the first time, Drew and Jenny aren't on the same page in the bedroom. Drew will stop a
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Chocolate Dreams: Poems

Arnold Adoff

4.0
Original poems on a favorite subject by a chocolate lover.
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The Chocolate Kiss (Amour et Chocolat, #2)

Laura Florand

4.0
The Heart of Paris

Welcome to La Maison des Sorcieres. Where the window display is an enchanted forest of sweets, a collection of conical hats delights the eye and the habitues nibble chocolate witches from fanciful mismatched china. While in their tiny blue kitchen, Magalie Chaudron and her two aunts stir wishes into bubbling pots of heavenly chocolat chaud.

But no amount of wishing will rid them o
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The Chocolate Mouse Trap (A Chocoholic Mystery, #5)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails. Then somebody actually kills the woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a rat-and it's not made of chocolate. And if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to trap it.
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The Candymakers (The Candymakers, #1)

Wendy Mass

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Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew?

Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone?

Miles, the boy who is allergic to merry-go-rounds and the color pink?

Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift
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You Have to Stop This (Secret, #5)

Pseudonymous Bosch

4.0
The finale to the New York Times bestselling Secret Series!
I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And now we've come to this: the fifth and final (I swear!) book in my saga of secrets.
A class trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous, or perhaps deadly--and I don't mean in the bored-to-death way--when Cass accidentally breaks a finger off
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The Chocolate Cupid Killings (A Chocoholic Mystery, #9)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
Ninth in the scrumptious-and national bestselling-Chocoholic Mystery series.

TenHuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall with chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day. But Lee is getting no love from Private Detective Derrick Valentine.

He's looking for their employee-a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been harboring for an underground railroad-type organization that aids abused women. Luckily, they manage to n
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The Chocolate Touch (Amour et Chocolat #4)

Laura Florand

4.0
La Vie en Chocolat
Dominique Richard's reputation says it all—wild past, wilder flavors, black leather and smoldering heat. Jaime Corey is hardly the first woman to be drawn to all that dark, delicious danger. Sitting in Dom's opulent chocolaterie in Paris day after day, she lets his decadent creations restore her weary body and spirit, understanding that the man himself is entirely beyond her gras
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The Chocolate Castle Clue (A Chocoholic Mystery, #11)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
Indulge in another Chocoholic mystery in the national bestselling series.

Lee McKinney Woodyard discovers a dusty trophy inside TenHuis Chocolade that belongs to her aunt Nettie and her old high school singing group, the Pier-O-Ettes. It's a trophy that brings back terrible memories of an unsolved murder years ago.

Before Lee takes aim at the past, someone is murdered in the here and now. Lee needs
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"

Michael O. Tunnell

4.0
After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To lift their spirits, he began dropping chocolate and gum by parachute.

Michael O. Tunnell tells an inspiring tale of candy and courage, illustrated with Lt. Halvorsen's personal photographs, as well
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The Great British Baking Show: Love to Bake

Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith

4.0

Love to Bake is The Great British Bake Off's best collection yet - recipes to remind us that baking is the ultimate expression of thanks, togetherness, celebration and love.Pop round to a friend's with tea and sympathy in the form of Chai Crackle Cookies; have fun making Paul's Rainbow-coloured Bagels with your family; snuggle up and take comfort in Sticky Pear & Cinnamon Buns or a Pandowdy Swamp

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Chocolate-Covered Katie: Over 80 Delicious Recipes That Are Secretly Good for You

Katie Higgins

4.0
What if you CAN eat all of your favorite desserts . . . and still be healthy and fit into your skinny jeans?

Meet Katie: a girl who eats chocolate every day and sometimes even has cake for breakfast! When Katie's sugar habit went too far in college and left her lacking energy, she knew something needed to change. So she began developing her own naturally sweet recipes and posting them online. Soon
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Max's Chocolate Chicken

Rosemary Wells

4.0
All Max wants to do is eat the chocolate chicken that someone left in the birdbath one fine spring morning. But "wait, Max," his sister Ruby says, "First we go on an egg hunt." Max does his best to play along, but when Ruby finds all the eggs-and he finds only ants and acorns-he shows her what can happen when you put all your eggs in one basket!
How To Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food: A Grilling BBQ Cookbook (How to Cook Everything Series, 8) book cover79

How To Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food: A Grilling BBQ Cookbook (How to Cook Everything Series, 8)

Mark Bittman

4.0

The ultimate grilling guide and the latest in Mark Bittman’s acclaimed How to Cook Everything series. Here’s how to grill absolutely everything―from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza―explained in Bittman’s trademark simple, straightforward style.Featuring 1,000 recipes and variations, plus Bittman’s practical advice on all the grilling basics, this comprehensive cookbook is an explo

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The Chocolate Moose Motive (A Chocoholic Mystery, #12)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer…

As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee’s newest hire is more likely to make them wag. Forsythia “Sissy” Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier’s only remaining resident hippie, and lives out at the Moose Lodge—once
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The Ghirardelli Chocolate Cookbook: Recipes and History from America's Premier Chocolate Maker

Ghirardelli Chocolate Company

4.0
America is experiencing a chocolate renaissance, and the epicenter is in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Ghirardelli has long been the standard-bearer for great chocolate. Domingo Ghirardelli first began making chocolate drinks for miners during the Gold Rush. In the more than 150 years since, the chocolatiers who have carried on the company's grand tradition have made Ghirardelli the leading pr
Harry Potter: Make Your Own Chocolate Frogs: Silicone Chocolate Mold and Gift Box Set book cover82

Harry Potter: Make Your Own Chocolate Frogs: Silicone Chocolate Mold and Gift Box Set

Insight Editions

4.0

This kit contains all you need to make and gift your very own Chocolate Frogs!This beautifully packaged set contains a food-safe silicon sheet debossed with eight chocolate frog molds, plus eight foiled gift boxes to contain your chocolates, and "moving" lenticular cards. Simply pour melted chocolate into the (washed) molds and allow the chocolate to harden in the fridge. Then pop out the frogs an

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Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor

Anne Byrn

4.0
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Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts

Maida Heatter

4.0
Maida Heatter is a genius--and an absolute delight! . . . Her style is friendly and funny, thorough and exacting. Maida tells you what size egg to use and she does so to guarantee success." --Foodies.com, which named Maida its "First Culinary Patriot"

Chocoholics unite! Maida's back and bringing the world's best chocolate recipes with her. Maida, of course, is Maida Heatter, sorceress supreme of al
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Chocolate Wishes

Trisha Ashley

4.0
Life is sweet for chocolate maker Chloe Lyon! In the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond, Confectioner Chloe dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to forecast - perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar! But when a new Vicar arrives in the village, the rumour mill goes into overdrive. Not onl
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The Definitive Book of Chocolate: Recipes and Techniques

Frederic Bau, Clay McLachlan, Pierre Hermé, L'Ecole du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

4.0
This comprehensive, illustrated reference offers the essential building blocks and recipes for working with chocolate in the home kitchen. This cooking school in book form opens with 100 step-by-step techniques: chocolate basics (tempering, ganaches, pralines), candy fillings, decorations, doughs, creams and mousses, ice cream and sorbet, sauces, and baker’s secrets. Each method is explained in te
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God’s Chocolate Chips: Daily Doses of Heaven’s Chocolate to Sweeten Your Life

Erin Wilmer

4.0
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The Chocolate Snowman Murders (A Chocoholic Mystery, #8)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
The much anticipated Winter Arts festival is here, and as treasurer of Winterfest, Lee is up to her elbows in mix-ups behind the scenes. When the art show's guest juror shows up drunk, Lee lets him sleep it off, only to find out later that someone's put the visiting dignitary into a permanent state of repose.

Lee and Joe were the last people spotted near the crime scene. In a seriously sticky situa
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Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City

Brandi Thompson Summers

4.0
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developmen
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The Chocolate Thief (Amour et Chocolat, #1)

Laura Florand

4.0
Paris

Breathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. For American Cade Corey, it's a dream come true, if only she can get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line...

Chocolate

Melting, yielding yet firm, exotic, its secrets are intimately known to Sylvain Marquis. But turn them over to a brash American waving a fist
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Couture Chocolate: A Masterclass in Chocolate

William Curley, Jose Lasheras

4.0
Couture Chocolate examines the origins of one of the world's most popular foods--explaining the method of creating chocolate, how its quality depends to a large extent on the variety of beans used, and the differences between plain, milk and white chocolates. It reveals how some of today's most popular flavors - such as vanilla and chilli - were those favored by the pioneering Aztec chocolatiers c
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A Chocolate Moose for Dinner

Fred Gwynne

4.0

A gorilla war? Car pools? Playing the piano by ear? It's no wonder a little girl is confused by some of the strange things she overhears her mommy and daddy saying. With his hilarious wordplay and zany illustrations, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!
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The Cookie Bible: The Ultimate Cookie Cookbook, from the Bestselling Author of The Baking Bible

Rose Levy Beranbaum

4.0

The ultimate cookie cookbook, from the bestselling author of The Baking Bible Rose Levy Beranbaum.This is your must-have cookie book, featuring nearly every cookie imaginable, from rustic Cranberry Chocolate Chippers to elegant French macarons, and everything in between—simple drop cookies, rolled-and-cut holiday cookies, decadent brownies and other dessert bars, pretty sandwich cookies, luxurious

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Love Monster and the Last Chocolate

Howard Hughes

4.0
A delicious new story about Love Monster, the only monster in Cutesville, from phenomenal, award-winning picture book talent Rachel Bright!

When Love Monster finds a mystery box of chocolates at his door, he can’t believe his luck. But he’s soon thrown into a whirlwind of turmoil. Should he keep the chocolates for himself? Or risk the perils of sharing his good fortune with his friends?

This super-f
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Smart About Chocolate: Smart About History

Sandra Markle, Charise Mericle Harper

4.0
Our unique, kid-friendly Smart About series continues with something for your sweet tooth! Smart About Chocolate is "chock-full" of fun facts about the history of chocolate, from the Mayans to Milton Hershey! Kids will learn how chocolate comes from beans of the rain forest's cacao trees and how candymakers in England and Switzerland first produced the chocolate we know and love today. Includes re
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Forever and a Day (Lucky Harbor, #6)

Jill Shalvi

4.0
LOVE CAN HAPPEN IN A HEARTBEAT.

Grace never thought she’d be starting her life over from scratch. Losing everything has landed her in Lucky Harbor, working as a dog walker for overwhelmed ER doctor Josh Scott. But the day his nanny fails to show up, Grace goes from caring for Josh’s loveable mutt to caring for his rambunctious kids. Soon Grace is playing house with the sexy single dad…

With so many
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The Great Book of Chocolate: The Chocolate Lover's Guide with Recipes

David Lebovitz

4.0
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The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up (A Chocoholic Mystery, #3)

JoAnna Carl

4.0
For the Fourth of July, Lee McKinney and her aunt debut their latest confections-chocolate frogs-at TenHuis Chocolade. The first customer to buy a croaker is the town crank. But when he later disappears and police suspect foul play, it's a chocolate clue that leads Lee to the killer.
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Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate

Alice Medrich, Deborah Jones

4.0
It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today's world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only is the quality better and variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed. To do justice to these new chocolates, which contain more pure chocolate and
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Perfection (Neighbor from Hell, #2)

R.L. Mathewso

4.0
Zoe is used to taking care of herself and has long ago accepted that if anything bad was going to happen, it was going to happen to her. So when she loses her job over something most bosses would probably be happy with and her life starts going down hill from there she doesn't expect it to get any better. She certainly didn't expect any help from the loud jerk next door, but then again she has not