Alexis: 1223 books

Cupcakes are a favorite dessert or sweet treat for everybody. Small, easy to prepare and varied in flavor, these little jewels fit most schedules, parties and personal tastes. In this book, you’ll find some new and exciting recipes to try. We are certain that if you aren’t tempted by the...

THE GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR: A SIMPLIFIED AND ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEM OF COOKERY, WITH NEARLY TWO THOUSAND PRACTICAL RECEIPTS SUITED TO THE INCOME OF ALL CLASSES This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index  

Laura is drifting through life. Spencer has the next decade perfectly planned. Laura loves her dog Frank. Spencer pampers his cat Mozart. Both humans have nothing in common, but when there's a mix-up with a vacation rental house, they're suddenly stuck together. At...

A hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down—where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the...

People like me, people like us... we never stood a chance. Faye is a girl who has been on the streets from the time she and her younger sister Echo were abandoned by their parents. Both their lives have been a struggle. The two of them have grown up street-savvy, stealing when necessary and never...

Eighty-five stories by one of Canada's greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan's short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section...

Recounted in vivid strokes, this travel essay describes a journey to the village of Chefchauen, nestled in the folds of the Riff mountains in North Morocco. Accompanied by my daughter I revisit the picturesque home of my adopted family to partake in a Berber marriage ceremony. Intrigued by the traditional...

This is the story of Granada, tucked beneath the snow-capped mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Back then the city was known as Granata, the red Capital of the last Moors who ruled the Iberian Penninsular for over 780 years.

Everything I Wanted to Say is a compilation of thirteen free verse and haiku poems. This three-part book is a coming-of-age creation which includes poems about love, race, identity, and more.

Once upon a time, a merboy spied a human child. The merboy, who longed to walk the sandy shore, spent his days watching the human boy grow to become a man who loved the sea. A man he’s admired from afar. The one he wishes he could be. But how can a merman express his greatest wish when he has no voice with which to speak? Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.

Khloe Alwell is about to turn sixteen, find her first real friends, fall in love, learn every legend is true, discover her parents are living a lie, and one more thing. She's not human. Moving from town to town with her mother who is absent six months out of the year and an mousy academic stepfather,...

Jericha is worried. Was it a dream or did it actually happen to her? She isn't sure. Her boyfriend is not only cheating on her but he picked up a destructive drug addiction as well. What is a girl to do? With a little help from an unlikely and decidedly alien source, she finds her answer.

HERE. NOW. Being a famous rocker has its perks—and its downside. Like, being away from home for too many months on a whirlwind reunion tour, ending up in the hospital to have throat surgery, and then coming home to a teenage son who's fooling around with the neighbor’s daughter. Sarah Richman’s...

After Haley Monroe’s estranged husband drops dead, she discovers he left her with a whole lot of debt and most of her family heirlooms missing. Too bad the only person who can help sort through the mess and clear her name is her late husband’s attorney…her only one-night stand and a man she...