Perfect for dessert lovers and budding bakers, this is the true story of a girl who followed her dream to make the perfect chocolate-chip cookie--and, one day, founded world-renowned TATE'S BAKE SHOP(R). Original cookie recipe included!

Eleven-year-old Kathleen King was positively obsessed with baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie. She experimented over and over and over with different recipes--less flour, more butter, longer baking time--until she got it just right.

Customers flocked to her family's farm stand on Long Island for Kathleen's enormous, buttery chocolate chip cookies. And when she grew up, Kathleen started a cookie company called TATE'S BAKE SHOP(R). TATE'S grew into a multi-million-dollar empire and, today, they are a household name and their cookies are sold all over the country!

Cookie Queen is the delicious true story of how a little girl's dream turned into an enormous cookie empire.

Un colegio de élite en Gales, una reunión de exalumnos, una extraña desaparición. Estás preparado para volver al internado?

La periodista Lucía Fernández regresa diez años después a Gales, al internado donde estudió. La convocatoria aparece en un momento en que su vida está a punto de resquebrajarse y decide volver al colegio para reencontrarse con algunos amigos y rememorar viejos tiempos. Lo que no imagina es que un fin de semana de celebración se convertirá en una auténtica pesadilla. Todo empieza cuando un exalumno desaparece misteriosamente y nadie, excepto Lucía, parece preocuparse.

Haciendo gala de una forma de contar ágil y sugerente, Kathleen King escribe una novela llena de intriga y acción en la que un grupo de jóvenes descubre que el pasado siempre vuelve. Terror gótico, misterio y altas dosis de suspense se dan cita en una novela de espionaje internacional sorprendente.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

An elite school in Wales, an alumni reunion, a strange disappearance. Are you ready to go back to boarding school?

Ten years later, Journalist Lucía Fernández returns to the boarding school where she studied in Wales. The announcement appears at a time when her life is about to crumble, and she decides to go back to school to meet up with some friends. What she does not imagine is that a weekend of celebration will turn into a true nightmare. It all starts when a former student mysteriously disappears and no one, except Lucía, seems to care.

Displaying an agile and suggestive way of telling, Kathleen King writes a novel full of intrigue and action in which a group of young people discovers that the past always comes back. Gothic horror, mystery, and high doses of suspense come together in a surprising international spy novel.

Passive people will feel conscience-stricken for having given in yet again. Aggressive people will feel fulfilled, whereas those at the receiving end will feel distressed, ashamed, but at the same time, angry and resentful.

Here are some reasons why you should get this book:

- Be more confident and get rid of anxiety

- Learn effective communication style and strategies

- Learn how to be more decisive

- Learn how to instill others with confidence

- Learn assertiveness training tactics that get results quick

- Learn how to influence people with the power of persuasion

- And much more

But if you get to the point where you love how you look and sound when you present it will be well worth the time spent. And having this skill will save you time for all future presentations in your life.

For Cricket Sings, Cahokia medicine woman, the omens have been bad. She is old, and so at this year's Sun Ceremony she will tell her stories, the tales handed down from grandparents to grandchildren since the memory of the People began. The Sun King is dying, unable to perfom the Ceremony which will bring good crops to the fields. Called to help because she is a healer, she is faced with the dilemma of whether to stimulate the comatose ruler long enough to perform the Ceremony or to poison him so that his son can perform it. Her decision to feign the King's death by switching his body with that of another old man who has recently died puts her entire family in danger.

This beautifully written novel explores the conflict between loyalty to the tradition of the People and the love of family. The resolution, set against the chaotic mourning for the Sun King, is compelling, believably constructed out of what little factual information is known about the prehistoric dwellers of Cahokia.

Have you ever thought about what a bridge can be? It can be a transition to another state of being in either a literal or figurative sense. It can help one cross over a difficult obstacle, or it can be the obstacle.
Kathleen King's bridge was a metaphorical one. She saw normalcy as the bridge to happiness. She tried crossing that bridge in a variety of ways: career, marriage, and motherhood, especially adoptive parenthood.
This book is her story of trying to cross the bridge built from a difficult childhood and mental illness into a normal life. As you read, some attempts may seem flawed now, but they were the only ways she knew of to be as normal (whatever that is) as other people she observed.
She used a variety of ways to get to the other side. One was her insistence on setting extreme goals for herself. The more difficult the challenge, the more the sense of accomplishment. When she was a young woman, people with conditions similar to hers did not talk openly about their symptoms of unrelenting cycles of depression and mania, and it seemed not even professionals understood the highs and lows. Her unrelenting super goals gave her brief satisfaction. And then the crashes would come, accompanied more than once by suicidal urges.
So, she would think, time to crank up the goals. Adopting a child? Eventually a baby was not enough. She had to adopt special needs children. She depended on those extreme goals as her coping mechanisms.
You may see yourself in Kathleen's stories, or you may see someone close to you.