Dozens of Decorating Ideas for a Sweet Holiday

Make every Christmas a cookie craft Christmas! The holidays offer just the right combination of cold weather and family togetherness for cookie crafters to elevate their skills to showstopping new heights. With more than 60 new Christmas cookie designs, along with festive New Year’s cookies and lovely Hanukkah treats, Cookie Craft Christmas delivers colorful inspiration to cookie decorators just when they need it most.

Each spread features a full-page, close-up photograph of one cookie cutter shape with detailed decorating instructions on the facing page. Some pages feature one gloriously decorated cookie, while others might feature two or three interpretations of the same shape — ornaments in complementary colors, Christmas trees decorated in varying styles, or gingerbread men wearing a rainbow of colors and patterns.

Decorating instructions are as simple as tinting cookie dough green before baking Christmas trees or as intricate as piping hair on a gingerbread grandma, creating a frilly pattern for her apron, and decorating her dress using a pretty feathering technique. Techniques are described in full in a Decorating Glossary, and cookie and icing recipes are included.

Fresh inspiration and fabulous decorating ideas fill the pages of this handy little sourcebook. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who has ever picked up a pastry bag.

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Mina Kitchen Mystery #1, with Free Recipes

Meet Mina Kitchen, a forty-something single who likes to cook – and cook and cook. In fact, her zest for whipping up trays of canapes is dwarfed only by her weird luck and mountain-lion size tabby cat, Vinnie. That, and her godmom’s tendency for blackmailing new members into joining St. Bart’s. Okay, maybe Mina’s Swiffer-addicted neighbor, Vito, is a bit weird, too. As if all that wasn’t enough, Mina’s a Jersey girl transplanted in the midst of the Amish-flavored countryside of Lancaster, PA.

Things get really complicated when she learns that her neighbor Vito is in a witness protection program, and her dry cleaner deals in prescription samples. Throw in a few mysterious flaming feces flingers and a fuse box labeled in Arabic, and you have a recipe for catering disorders.

Kitchen Addiction! will keep you smiling when you’re not LOL-ing. Set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you’ll find a surprising cast of characters, humorous plot twists, red herrings and actual recipes. Well, some of the recipes are real. The others you might to take with a pinch of salt, and some Tums.

If you’re looking for a funny fiction read, packed with humor, excitement – and recipes – look no further. Lund’s debut “chick lit” novel blends fun characters, great dialogue and zany capers into a frothy fiction that’s sure to amuse. The novel also delivers a virtual tourist romp through the actual streets of Lancaster City and its surroundings.

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Tall, scruffy private investigator Caleb Pike knows insurance fraud and enjoys catching those who cheat the system. But it’s what he doesn’t know that could kill him.

Caleb is sent to investigate a case that makes no sense, a data anomaly discovered by Jenny Miller, an academic as smart as she is stunning. She finds that American seniors are dying in numbers that defy statistics, not by natural causes, but in violent murders.

Caleb and Jenny team up and travel west to California, chasing down the clues that could unravel the mystery behind the deaths. Their journey to the Golden State reveals the shocking details of who is ordering the murder of innocent seniors, and why.

As they close in on the truth, the syndicate behind the murders acts to protect their lethal, lucrative business. Caleb and Jenny join a deadly race against time, pursued by ruthless enemies ordered to ensure the killings continue, whatever the cost.

The Mercy Contracts is a fast-paced, suspenseful story full of intrigue and action, with a little romance on the side.

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It’s 1896, on the Canadian prairies. Betsy Tompkins has a dream–she wants to be a photographer. But women don’t have careers in this time and place. They marry, raise children, keep house.

Betsy’s deaf, and she knows that marriage isn’t for her–until she meets James Alexander Macleod, a North West Mounted Policeman. James is determined to change Betsy’s mind.

The problem is, he has a dark and troubling secret, and also a job to do that could cost him his life.

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Norman’s always been a loser when it comes to love. So when his old high school crush—the beautiful Cassie Clayton—reenters his life, the night that follows is as shocking as it is wonderful.

But then something even more magical occurs… Norman awakens as the goddess. Cassie as the dude. And both have been transported back in time to the perilous days of high school.

One’s enthralled.

The other’s appalled.

Will either be the same again?

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An Unexpected Brides Novella

Dex Stanton has never had much time for book learning. He’s been too busy helping to provide for his family. Now that he’s heading west, Dex is hoping to start a family of his own. However, his attempt to acquire a mail-order bride fails miserably when the lady writes back ridiculing his terrible spelling. Rachel Oliver may be the last person he wants to know what a dunce he is, but she’s also the smartest woman in town–and it’s clear he needs her help.

Rachel Oliver has lingered in town for three years secretly mooning over Dex Stanton, but now she’s done. If the fool wants to write to a mail-order bride company, so be it. Once she begins giving Dex lessons, however, Rachel realizes she may not be prepared to give up just yet.

As their time together runs short, can two of the most stubborn people in town set aside their pride long enough to find love?

Love by the Letter is a companion novella to A Bride for Keeps, Melissa Jagears’s full-length novel. Includes an extended sneak peek at A Bride for Keeps.

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