Rebel Without a Cake

Rebel Without a Cake
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101625090

In the still of the night… Halloween is approaching, and the co-owners of Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero and her former mother-in-law, Miss Frankie, have scored a sweet treat—a fantastic catering opportunity that could lead to a rich future for their bakery. But their good news is quickly rattled by a bump in the night when Miss Frankie’s neighbor, Bernice, barrels into her kitchen toting a Bible and a gun, and serves up a story about a ghost at her window. Bernice swears she just saw the ghost of her moonshiner uncle who disappeared in the swamp fifteen years ago. And when her cousin soon goes missing in the same swamp, Bernice is certain someone’s playing a nasty trick, and convinces Rita and Miss Frankie to help her investigate. They’ll just need to watch their steps, as these ladies are liable to get mired in a very swampy mystery… INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES

Cake on a Hot Tin Roof

Cake on a Hot Tin Roof
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101559950

Pastry chef Rita Lucero's Mardi Gras party turns funereal when one of her guests is found dead after a public fight with her uncle-leaving Rita no choice but to find the real killer and clear her uncle's name...

The Cakes of Monte Cristo

The Cakes of Monte Cristo
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101625104

In the fresh new Piece of Cake Mystery from the national bestselling author of Rebel Without a Cake, a pastry chef becomes embroiled in a suspicious death as a mysterious curse casts a pall over an annual New Orleans ball. Rita Lucero, co-owner of New Orleans’s Zydeco Cakes, is thrilled to be catering an annual ball held at the Monte Cristo Hotel. Designing the high-end desserts is her priority—until she stumbles upon a mystery long-buried at her shop. It’s an ornate ruby necklace, hidden underneath her staircase and rumored to be cursed. After the gem’s appraiser suddenly drops dead and Rita herself is targeted by a menacing stranger, she’s no longer laughing at local superstition. Now with five cakes on order and an investigation into the necklace’s past revealing layers of unsettling clues, Rita has reason to keep looking over her shoulder while she’s frosting. Because any way you slice it, the next victim of the legendary curse could be her.

The Cakes of Monte Cristo

The Cakes of Monte Cristo
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425258289

Rita Lucero, co-owner of New Orleans's Zydeco Cakes, is thrilled to be catering an annual ball held at the Monte Cristo Hotel. Designing the high-end desserts is her priority, until she stumbles upon a mystery long-buried at her shop. It's an ornate ruby necklace, hidden underneath her staircase and rumoured to be cursed. After the gem's appraiser suddenly drops dead and Rita herself is targeted by a menacing stranger, she's no longer laughing at local superstition. Now she's trying to stop the curse. before she winds up dead.

Rebel without a Crew

Rebel without a Crew
Author: Robert Rodriguez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780452271876

Named One of The Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” Famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Machete) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through. Part production diary, part how-to manual, Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a $7,000 budget. Also included is the appendix, "The Ten Minute Film Course,” a tell-all on how to save thousands of dollars on film school and teach yourself the ropes of film production, directing, and screenwriting. A perfect gift for the aspiring filmmaker.

The Rebel Mama's Handbook for (Cool) Moms

The Rebel Mama's Handbook for (Cool) Moms
Author: Nikita Stanley
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1525524968

If you’re a mom (or mom-to-be) who wants to raise decent human beings, maintain your pre-baby identity, and not lose your sh*t along the way, congrats: you’ve just found the parenting book of your dreams. The Rebel Mama’s Handbook for (Cool) Moms is a girlfriend’s guide to early motherhood. It’s the Coles Notes for all those boring baby books you never read. It’s the instruction manual you wish your kid(s) came with - complete with cocktail list. Welcome to motherhood. Let’s do this.

100 Days of Cake

100 Days of Cake
Author: Shari Goldhagen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481448560

"Molly suffers from depression, and when she finds out that the exotic fishstore she works at is closing down, her whole life, which is already hanging on a thread, starts to crumble"--

A Sheetcake Named Desire

A Sheetcake Named Desire
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110151714X

New Orleans pastry chef Rita Lucero is out to bake her way to the top. But when she finds her almost-ex-husband killed with a chef's knife in his back, she becomes suspect number one. Now it's up to her to find the real killer before she winds up as the next victim served.

Arsenic and Old Cake

Arsenic and Old Cake
Author: Jacklyn Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110161207X

Blind man’s bluff With business going stale at Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero has plenty to worry about. But when the blind trumpet player Old Dog Leg Magee asks for a favor, she can’t say no. His brother Monroe disappeared forty years ago, and now someone has shown up claiming to be him. Old Dog Leg needs Rita to be his eyes—and see if it’s really his brother. The Twisted Palms Bed and Breakfast is full of unsavory characters, Monroe included. Posing as newlyweds, Rita and her friend Gabriel check in, only to discover that Monroe’s true identity isn’t the only mystery they’ll have to solve. When another guest at the Twisted Palms turns up dead, it seems the mysterious man might also be a murderer...

Rebel Without Clue

Rebel Without Clue
Author: Kerrie A Noor
Publisher: Kerrie Noor
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1386977187

Planet Hy Man's energy is running on empty and earth is their only hope. The only problem is, no one wants to go there. Mex is ready to hang up her catsuit and watch the galaxy pass by. But when she is ordered to save Planet Hy Man or kiss her pension goodbye, she has no choice but to don her leathers and head to Scotland. With no idea what the Scot's are saying let alone what a latte is, Mex combs Glasgow. Confused, disoriented, and with a growing love for vodka she hits a mind-blowing obstacle that knocks her for six… Legless; an ancient man as elusive as the proverbial car keys has the formula. She thought he'd died decades ago, back in the days when phones were anything but mobile and TV screens were anything but flat. Will Mex find him in time and if she does, will he be too Scottish to understand? Rebel Without A Clue is the quirky first book in the Planet Hy Man science fiction comedy series. If you like high-mileage heroines, fast-paced satire, and meticulously crafted universes, then you'll love Kerrie Noor's otherworldly farce. Shortlisted in the e-book Page Turner awards 2020.