Monster caramel apples and crunchy witch's fingers sound just the right amount of spooky for a Halloween party! Readers find these recipes and more in this festive volume of wickedly tasty treats and eats. The introductory text includes safety information, measuring tips, and a guide to basic cooking techniques used in the book. Each recipe includes a materials and ingredients list and step-by-step instructions to guide readers to successfully scary...

Discover how two outsiders-singer Billie Holiday, a young black woman, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants-created "Strange Fruit", a song that challenged racism and paved the way for the Civil Rights movement.

Still spry at ninety-three, Theodora has lived long enough to see her family grow into an insufferable bunch of truculent knuckleheads. Having finally gathered the whole bickering brood together for the holidays at her South Carolina home, the grand matriarch pines wistfully for those extravagant, homey Christmases of her childhood. How she misses the tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, the over-the-top decorations, those long, lovely fireside

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"Joy Preston misses her beloved late grandmother dearly. But when she learns the terms of Nana's will, she's shocked-and more than a little irked. Joy moved to Colorado years ago and is now CEO of a successful nail polish company. Her life and career are in Denver. How can Nana have expected her to give that up, even temporarily, to take over a bed and breakfast in North Carolina for six months? Yet there's no denying Heart and Soul's charm, especially...

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman?and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options. Yet she won't give up her two young daughters, refuses to join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon and can't fathom condemning herself to another loveless marriage. Unfortunately she must decide soon because there's...

Collected in one volume for the first time! The best holiday surprises occur underneath the mistletoe in these delectable tales from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT Melanie McLaughlin desperately wants to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas. A just-for-the-holiday marriage to Bryce Landry fits her plan perfectly . . . until unexpected sparks have Melanie dreaming of forever...