Lattes, Ladyfingers, and Lies

Lattes, Ladyfingers, and Lies

Author: Harper Lin

Publisher: Harper Lin Books

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Total Pages: 205

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From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: the 4th cozy mystery in the popular series set in a charming beach town! Fran is anticipating her trip to Italy with Matty… until a precious diamond ring is stolen from the town’s jewelry store and an employee is murdered. Fran suspects the storeowner of insurance fraud, but what if she’s wrong? Would her life be at stake again if she butts in on another police investigation? Includes two recipes! keywords: Cafe cozy mystery, cozy mystery with recipes, amateur sleuth, small town cozy mystery, beach town cozy mystery series, Italian cafe mystery with recipes, cozy mystery with romance, cozy mystery series with dogs


Punch, Pastries, and Poison

Punch, Pastries, and Poison

Author: Harper Lin

Publisher: Harper Lin Books

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 194

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From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: the popular cozy mystery series set in a charming beach town! Fran throws Matt a birthday party at the cafe and invites all of Cape Bay to attend. Halfway into the party, many of the guests become sick, and some end up in the ER. Fran fears the cause was food poisoning, but Detective Mike Stanton informs her that it was actual poison—someone at the party intentionally poisoned the pastries or punch. Did the perp mean to target one person or to hurt as many people as possible? Did they want to shut down the cafe and destroy her business? Was it someone she knew or a sick stranger? Whoever it was, Fran had likely met the culprit at her party. And that makes her shudder. When another partygoer ends up dead days later, Fran is on high alert. She must find the murderer before anyone else gets hurt. Includes special recipes! keywords: culinary cozy mystery cozy mystery bestseller cozy mystery with recipes cozy mystery with dogs cozy mystery series with romance small town cozy mystery beach town cozy mystery series cupcake cozy mystery coffee shop cozy mystery Italian cozy mystery series Clean romance cozy series dessert cosy series


Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries 3-Book Box Set: Books 4-6

Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries 3-Book Box Set: Books 4-6

Author: Harper Lin

Publisher: Harper Lin Books

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Total Pages: 555

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~~ Save and buy the box set! ~~ When Fran moves back to her idyllic beach town to take over Antonia’s Italian Café, her family's cafe, she also develops a knack for solving bizarre murders. Each book includes special recipes. From 3x USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Harper Lin Box set includes THREE novels in Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries: books 4, 5, and 6 in the series. Lattes, Ladyfingers, and Lies (Book 4) Fran is anticipating her trip to Italy with Matty… until a precious diamond ring is stolen from the town’s jewelry store and an employee is murdered. Fran suspects the storeowner of insurance fraud, but what if she’s wrong? Would her life be at stake again if she butts in on another police investigation? Americanos, Apple Pies, and Art Thieves (Book 5) It’s almost Thanksgiving, and Fran is baking her family’s famous apple pies for the café. While pie fever spreads through Cape Bay, a world-famous artist holds a special art show in the town’s modest museum in honor of his late mother, who grew up there. Louis Cliffton’s paintings are encrusted with valuable gems and gold. At the opening night, the centerpiece of the show is stolen. When Fran investigates the case, she receives threats, and someone follows her home and vandalizes her café. What kind of thief would do this? A crazy outsider—or someone from her very own town? Cremas, Christmas Cookies, and Crooks (Book 6) It’s almost Christmastime in Cape Bay, and another murder has everyone in town talking. A despised new drama teacher at the local high school is killed in the school’s parking lot. The police arrest a beloved teacher, Mrs. Crowsdale, but everyone else thinks she is too nice to murder anyone. Mike, however, says they have solid evidence that proves she did it. Sammy is particularly devastated. Mrs. Crowsdale was her favorite teacher and still her hero. Sammy begs Fran to find the real culprit. Fran isn’t so sure. Mike would be angry with her for butting in on another case. And what if more danger befalls her? After all, there are some pretty dangerous people in town… Download the Box Set bundle now to read this popular cozy mystery series set in a charming beach town! Keywords: cozy romance mysteries culinary cozy mystery cozy mystery bestseller cozy mystery with recipes cozy mystery with dogs cozy mystery series with romance small town cozy mystery beach town cozy mystery series cupcake cozy mystery coffee shop cozy mystery collection Italian cozy mystery series Clean romance cozy series dessert cosy series


Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys

Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys

Author: Harper Lin

Publisher: Harper Lin Books

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 211

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From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: a culinary cozy mystery series with recipes set in a charming beach town! When Francesca’s old high school crush, Todd, is accused of murder, she is convinced he is innocent. The police don’t believe Todd’s story, and neither does Matty. During the busy summer tourist season at Cape Bay, Francesca sets out to prove Todd’s innocence. Matty, however, investigates to prove Todd is guilty. Why does Matty detest Todd so much? But what if he’s right—what if Todd is a murderer? Includes two special recipes! keywords: cafe cozy mystery with recipes, cozy mystery with dogs, culinary cozy mystery series, small town cosy mystery, beach town cozy mystery, cozy mystery with romance, Cafe cozy mystery, Cafe cozy mystery, cozy mystery with recipes, amateur sleuth, small town cozy mystery


Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse

Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse

Author: Harper Lin

Publisher: Harper Lin Books

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Total Pages: 190

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From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: a dessert cozy mystery series set in a charming beach town! Francesca Amaro moves back to her hometown of Cape Bay, Massachusetts, and takes over the family business, Antonia’s Italian Café. She spends her days making delicious artisan cappuccinos, until she stumbles upon her neighbor’s dead body. When the police discover Mr. Cardosi was poisoned, Francesca becomes a suspect. The victim’s son, Matty, happens to be Francesca’s old high school friend. Together, they uncover the secrets of the locals in order to find the killer in their idyllic beach town. Includes two special recipes! This is the first novel in The Cape Bay Cafe mystery series. keywords: cozy mystery cozy mystery bestseller cozy mystery first in series Cafe cozy mystery cozy mystery with recipes cozy mystery with dogs cozy mystery series with romance small town cozy mystery beach town cozy mystery series cupcake cozy mystery


Passing to América

Passing to América

Author: Thomas A. Abercrombie

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0271082798

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In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a “woman in disguise.” Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman’s body, Don Antonio confessed to having been María Yta, but continued to assert his maleness and claimed to have a functional “member” that appeared, he said, when necessary. Passing to América is at once a historical biography and an in-depth examination of the sex/gender complex in an era before “gender” had been divorced from “sex.” The book presents readers with the original court docket, including Don Antonio’s extended confession, in which he tells his life story, and the equally extraordinary biographical sketch offered by Felipa Ybañez of her “son María,” both in English translation and the original Spanish. Thomas A. Abercrombie’s analysis not only grapples with how to understand the sex/gender system within the Spanish Atlantic empire at the turn of the nineteenth century but also explores what Antonio/María and contemporaries can teach us about the complexities of the relationship between sex and gender today. Passing to América brings to light a previously obscure case of gender transgression and puts Don Antonio’s life into its social and historical context in order to explore the meaning of “trans” identity in Spain and its American colonies. This accessible and intriguing study provides new insight into historical and contemporary gender construction that will interest students and scholars of gender studies and colonial Spanish literature and history. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.


A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

Author: John Butt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1461583683

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(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.