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The Love Goddess' Cooking School
Contributor(s): Senate, Melissa (Author)
ISBN: 1439107238     ISBN-13: 9781439107232
Publisher: Gallery Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Romance - Contemporary
- Fiction | Romance - Romantic Comedy
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010021190
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.4" W x 8.16" (0.63 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
From the bestselling author of See Jane Date and The Secret of Joy comes a charming, warm-hearted story about a woman's search for happiness after inheriting her grandmother's cooking school.

When Holly Maguire inherits "Camilla's Cucinotta," her late grandmother's home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isn't a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess, whose secret sauces had aphrodisiac properties and whose kitchen table fortune-telling often came true. Holly, a broken-hearted thirty-year-old who's never found her niche, can barely cook at all. But she's determined to keep her beloved grandmother's legacy alive. Armed with Camilla's hand-scrawled recipe book, Holly welcomes her students: apprentice Mia, a twelve-year-old desperate to learn to cook Italian to stop her divorced father from marrying his ditzy girlfriend; Juliet, Holly's childhood friend grieving for her newborn--and the marriage she left behind on the mainland; Simon, struggling to be an every-other-weekend dad to his young son after his wife left him; and Tamara, a single thirty-something yearning for love.

Mixing fervent wishes and bittersweet memories with simmering sauces and delectable Italian dishes, Holly and the students of The Love Goddess' Cooking School create their own recipes for happiness and become masters of their own fortunes.


Contributor Bio(s): Senate, Melissa: - Melissa Senate is the author of eight novels, including the bestselling See Jane Date, which was made into an ABC Family TV movie and has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. She's published short pieces in Everything I've Always Wanted to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, It's a Wonderful Lie, Flirting with Pride and Prejudice, and American Girls About Town. A former romance and young adult editor from New York, she now lives on the southern coast of Maine with her son.