Christmas cake

Format:

Book

Title:

Christmas cake

Author:

Hinton, Lynne.

ISBN:

9780061711503

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Avon Trade, 2009.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 21 cm

Number in series:

Contents:

Holiday party cake -- Hot milk cake -- Italian cream cake -- Holiday pound cake -- Hummingbird cake -- Ambrosia cake -- Apple dabble cake -- Granny Causey's light fruitcake -- Peaches and cream cake -- Fran's fresh coconut cake -- Red velvet cake -- Old-fashioned yellow cake with caramel icing -- Lemon lavender pound cake -- Pecan cake -- Oatmeal cake -- Orange slice cake -- Chocolate cookie cake sheet -- Aunt Maymie's chocolate syrup cake -- Apple pound cake -- Spicy coffee cake.

Summary:

With the holiday season drawing near, the ladies of Hope Springs, North Carolina, are making plans for a cake cookbook. Margaret, whose cancer has returned, is longing to visit her mother's Texas hometown, so impulsive Beatrice gathers up the friends to make the journey ... by van ...

Subject(s):

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Church membership -- Fiction.

Cooking -- Fiction.

North Carolina -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

North Carolina -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Silver Falls Library	FIC HINTON	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic Hinton, L. 2009	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

"The perfect recipe for friendship, Christmas Cake is a delightful read for the holidays. This is a book to be shared, a story to be treasured."

--Joan Medlicott, author of The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love

In a long-awaited sequel to her beloved national bestseller Friendship Cake, author Lynne Hinton returns to the town of Hope Springs with Christmas Cake, a heartwarming story that celebrates the close and lifelong bonds among women. Set in a small fictional Southern community as unforgettable as Jan Karon's Mitford, Christmas Cake movingly addresses issues of life and death, faith and love--and good cooking!

Author Notes

Lynne Hinton is from North Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Masters of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She also studied at Wake Forest University and the NC School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking.

While in seminary, Lynne began considering writing and enrolled in literature classes. She is the author of several books, including a nonfiction piece, MEDITATIONS FOR WALKING, and the Hope Springs Trilogy with FRIENDSHIP CAKE, CHRISTMAS CAKE AND WEDDING CAKE.

Lynne also has a mystery series with St. Martin's, written under the name, Jackie Lynn which includes DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE, JACOB'S LADDER, and SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT.

Lynne is a regular columnist with The Charlotte Observer and she has served as a chaplain with hospice and as the pastor of Mount Hope United Church of Christ and First Congregational United Church of Christ, both in North Carolina.

Lynne and her husband, Bob Branard, presently live near Spokane, Washington where Lynne is an interim pastor at the Chewelah United Church of Christ.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Hinton returns to her beloved Hope Springs, NC, cast of characters (Friendship Cake) for a tasty holiday treat. Margaret's cancer has returned, and all she wants for Christmas is to take a trip out West to relive family memories and visit her dear friend Charlotte. So her Hope Springs Church friends gather together to make sure the trip goes off without a hitch. Series fans will be delighted. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.