Susan Gold Purdy

"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--

Offers practical advice on cake baking and provides recipes for layer cakes, sheet cakes, sponge cakes, tortes, jelly rolls, and chiffon cakes, as well as icings and fillings.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake “[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting. . . Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs. A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take.

A cookbook with recipes which remove excess saturated fat and cholesterol from favorite desserts.

Thirty-two traditional recipes for holiday dishes from the British Isles, France, Italy, Scandinavia, and elsewhere. Includes an introduction to basic cooking skills, descriptions of international Christmas customs, and seven decorative craft projects.

Includes simple step-by-step recipes for candies, cakes, breads, snacks, sauces, and cheeses suitable to give as holiday gifts.

Presents recipes for traditional Jewish foods and outlines of the related holidays.

Recipes with metric equivalents for Halloween and the fall, with ideas for edible decorations and tips on measurements and basic cooking skills.

Recipes from around the world to celebrate Christmas, Epiphany, New Year's Day, and St. Lucia's Day.

Directions for making a wide variety of useful and decorative gifts suitable for any occasion.

Step-by-step instructions for making up and binding a book. Includes several binding techniques.

Crown to sandal instructions for making costumes of various countries and historical periods as well as miscellaneous costumes such as a computer, a totem pole, and a school bus.

Gives the historical background for the celebration of more than twenty-nine special occasions from various countries like Guy Fawkes Day and Swedish Spring, with instructions on traditional touches, decorations, games, and making items for a party.

Traces the history of sixteen major Jewish holidays and describes their celebration from ancient times to the present day. Also gives instructions for crafts and activities related to each holiday.

Describes in verse how five colors combined in different ways can make any other color.