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The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them

10 best books like The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them (Amy Dickinson): The Chocolate Kiss, The Chocolate Touch, The Duchess Bakes a Cake, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, Devotion: A Memoir, Making Toast, Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story, Dough: A Memoir

The Chocolate Kiss
AuthorLaura Florand
ISBN0758269412
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...
The Chocolate Touch
AuthorLaura Florand
ISBN0758286325
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...
The Duchess Bakes a Cake
AuthorVirginia Kahl
ISBN1930900147
A long time ago there lived over the waters, a Duchess, a Duke and their family of daughters.
Everything went smoothly and happily in this large family, until one day the Duchess decided to make:
A lovely light luscious delectable cake
Would she take the cook's advice? No, she would not....
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
AuthorMarty Makary
ISBN1635574110
"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it.

One in five Americans...
Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
AuthorElissa Altman
ISBN1452107599
From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le...
Devotion: A Memoir
AuthorDani Shapiro
ISBN0061628344
“Devotion’s biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy—appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story.” —Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep

“I was immensely moved by this elegant book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert,...
Making Toast
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica,...
Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency
AuthorMeghan MacLean Weir
ISBN1439189072
When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures,...
Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story
AuthorRebecca Dana
ISBN0399158774
The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . .
A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny....
Dough: A Memoir
AuthorMort Zachter
ISBN0820329347
Mort Zachter’s childhood revolved around a small shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side known in the neighborhood as “the day-old bread store.” It was a bakery where nothing was baked, owned by his two eccentric uncles who referred to their goods as “the merchandise.” Zachter grew up sleeping...
The Rules of Inheritance
AuthorClaire Bidwell Smith
ISBN1594630887
Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. "I've already come to the conclusion that I will probably be parentless by the time I am thirty," Claire writes in her powerful debut.

As her mother...
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
AuthorMatt Lee
ISBN1627792619
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.

Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have...
From the Rut to the Ledge
AuthorSuzanne Rutledge
ISBN1512798517
Tired of living in their “comfortable rut,” Suzanne and Mitch Rutledge decided to quit their jobs in America and take their seven-year-old son with them on a journey around the world. For nine months, they traveled slowly and volunteered, home schooled their second grader, and experienced what...
Loose Diamonds ...and other things I've lost (and found) along the way
AuthorAmy Ephron
ISBN0061958743
In Loose Diamonds, an engaging collection of essays and observations, Amy Ephron, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the One Sunday Morning and A Cup of Tea, paints a rich, vivid, and comic portrait of modern living from a modern woman’s perspective. Fans of the writings of Amy Sedaris and Joan...
The Accidental Book Club
AuthorJennifer Scott
ISBN0451418824
Writing a new future takes a little time—and a lot of love.

Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, until her life took an unexpected turn. Now, with Jean’s husband gone, what began as an off-the-cuff idea has grown into a group of six women who meet the second Tuesday of every month...
The Legend of the Easter Egg
AuthorLori Walburg
ISBN0310224470
One April morning, a boy and his sister go outside to gather eggs. "Let's pretend we're hunting Easter eggs!" Lucy says. "What are Easter eggs?" Thomas wonders. In The Legend of the Easter Egg, young Thomas learns the deeper meaning behind Easter eggs and the Easter story itself. When his older sister...
A Weekend with Wendell
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0688140246
Wendell was spending the weekend at Sophie's house. Playing house, Wendell was the mother, the father, and the children; Sophie was the dog. Playing bakery, Wendell was the baker; Sophie got to be the sweet roll. Wendell shone his flashlight in Sophie's eyes when she tried to sleep. But when he gave her...
Little Red Bird
AuthorNick Bruel
ISBN1596433396
SOMETHING NEW AND UNEXPECTED – sweet and gentle– from the creator of Bad Kitty and Poor Puppy.

Sweetly enchanting paintings and a gently rhyming text tell the tale of the little red bird who is quite content in her cage, but curious… When the cage door is left open, she sees her chance and...
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