Food Fiction

Torn from his family, Adam lands in a world of giants, wild animals, and marauding mountain people. Unable to find his way home, he discovers an alluring paradise - a golden city where he builds a new life, safe from the terrors outside the walls. But when the city begins to crumble, a chance encounter with a strange little girl changes everything. She claims to know why he was brought into this world and the way back to his family, but insists he leave the doomed city and follow her to the high country to join the mountain people.

On a beautiful island full of magical creatures, one bunny is destined for an impossible quest. The rare Seither water that provides magic to everyone has been stolen. To make matters worse, the loyal Spartans who were guarding the Seither have gone missing. Someone must find the missing force and the Spartan guards.

If someone were to write a novel about the world of big-box retail, it could very well be a grab bag of horrors and tragedies, detailing the dismal pay and long hours that employees suffer in the name of low prices and just-good-enough merchandise all so the bigwigs and the bean counters can stuff their pockets with trumped up stock options. It could be about that. Thankfully, this book isn't. Instead, it's a lively romantic comedy that begins when Jeff Martin, son of the owner of the third-largest retailer in the United States, shows up at his father's Minnesota corporate office.

In life’s kitbag of essentials food and drink are right at the top. Their variety and ways to consume are a wonder, both of nature’s offerings and human creativity. For our classic poets ranging from Ancient Romans to Elinor Wylie and Rainer Maria Rilke, their recipes for verse using the simple ingredients of words and imagination are a wonderful and enduring example of their craft and art applied to the one thing mankind looks forward to each and every day.

Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin has the best job in the world: she gets to eat for a living. At least, she hopes she has a job. Her trial period at Southern Style magazine is up—and rumors are swirling that management is making a choice between Tiffany and a rival columnist: the ambitious Jenny Lee Plumm. Former chef Tiffany knows she has a battle on her hands…but she didn't realize it was to the death!

Mientras lees el libro, aprende acerca de las diferentes cadenas alimenticias dentro de un mismo ecosistema. ¿Cuáles animales se encuentran al principio, y cuáles animales terminan siendo el tentempié? Oye, Tirintin- tin les enseña a los niños acerca de la cadena alimenticia, el ciclo de la vida, y la parte que cada ser vivo tiene dentro de un ecosistema. Este libro es tan divertido, que los niños no podrán creer que están aprendiendo y estarás acordándote de Oye, Tirin-tintin aún cuando lo hayas cerrado.

From bustling Hanoi to the heart of Cambodia, best friends Elwis and Chen are off on a magical journey full of surprises! Their mission? To visit Chen's cousin’s amazing shoe factory in Phnom Penh. But this isn’t just any factory—it's a place where shoes are made like magic, and every room holds something new to discover!

From some of your favorite best-selling and critically acclaimed authors - including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco - comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of 13 teens.

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of food. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Edition Editor - Nicole Natale Meat Is Meat: A starving ship, catches a mermaid and must decide what's for dinner. Observation 292: Science discovers plants feel pain like humans, and are sentient. The Walnut Tree: A travel tour in Uzbekistan gets sidetracked to wonderful ...

From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens - and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmers' market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition - it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due.

Over 150 interactive, engaging, and challenging math riddles for kids. Help your child become a master at addition and subtraction! Bring math to the kitchen when cooking breakfast, lunch, and dessert; or eating fruits, vegetables, and meats in our Food Theme version.

A Grisly Murder, a Desperate Ghost, and a 100-year-old Secret? Buying the rundown Vineyard on Spell's Bay is Verity's Do-Over. It just needs a little TLC. And maybe a bulldozer. It's here in the Magic-Filled town of Veil Falls that she will find out she's something more than Over-the-Hill and Broke... According to Honor, her handsome next-door neighbor and resident Vine Warlock, she has a certain gift. Only a Wine Witch isn't all she is. When the Naked Ghost on the Chair in her Bedroom starts asking questions, she's certain she's ready for the Not so Funny Farm...and determined to get rid ...

Culinary queen Angie Amalfi has put aside her gourmet utensils to concentrate on planning her upcoming wedding to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. What could possibly go wrong? Instead of the answer to her heart's dreams, she scrambles to deal with wedding planners with bizarre ideas, wedding dresses that don't flatter, squabbling relatives with hurt feelings, a long-suffering groom, and worries over where she and Paavo will live after the wedding. But all of that pales when Angie finds the perfect house for them, except for one little problem - the house may be haunted.

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs.... I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)." The novel is about a group of scientists who invent a food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults.

Cava, die Nachfahrin der Liebesgöttin Aphrodite, wurde schon als Mädchen darauf vorbereitet, für Very Happy Meat zu arbeiten, den Lieferservice ihrer Familie. Denn der bringt seinen Kunden nicht einfach Pizza nach Hause: Die Familie macht Jagd auf korrupte Politiker, Serienmörder und andere Schwerverbrecher, um ihre Organe gewinnbringend im Untergrund zu verkaufen. Doch sie findet heraus, dass einer ihrer Brüder dem FBI Informationen hat zukommen lassen - und plötzlich steht die Sicherheit ihrer Familie auf dem Spiel.

Haley and Nana return in a second heartwarming adventure! Having embraced her new meta class, Haley is ready for anything... except, possibly, a plague of seafood! It turns out it's harder than she thought to sit back and let other people handle the problems she really, really wants solved.... This second installment in the adventures of a post-apocalyptic world with a game system imposed on it by magical aliens contains yet another recipe, because (once again), that's the kind of story this is. Curl up with some cornbread and watch Haley craft her way through another quick read!

Sheela Digs is a horny 21-year old virgin who was orphaned at a young age and longs for love and intimacy. Sadly, she finds it in all the wrong places. Suppressed by her overprotective grandmother, Sheela plays out her promiscuity through fantasy; that is until destiny leads her to uncover her deceased mother's book of love spells.

At the Conway Mushroom Festival, former celebrity chef turned food festival judge Jackie Norwood looks forward to a weekend of gourmet delights and friendly competition. But the festivities take a dark turn when a controversial figure is found dead and Jackie's old friend Marshall becomes the main suspect. Jackie, along with her friends, stirs through secrets and suspicions in a race to find the real killer.

Regentada por el antiguo detective Nagare Kamogawa y su hija Koishi, y disimulada entre las populosas calles de Kioto, se halla la taberna Kamogawa, un pequeño local donde se puede comer maravillosamente bien... y reencontrar el plato que ha marcado nuestras vidas.

With this book's theme of family and tradition, from a diner challenge to a quinceañera to the farmer's market, the junior chefs will have to saute their way through the chewiest challenges yet. They're the best in the nation, but can they handle the twists and turnovers week two has in store, on- and off-camera? Which junior chefs can stand the heat? And which one will need to get out of the kitchen? We are one episode closer to discovering just who will earn the title of Next Best Junior Chef.