While helping to prepare a surprise shower, Amelia Bedelia and her cousin make some arrangements that are not quite what the guests expected.

A pussycat named Ribby invites a dog called Duchess to tea, and this is the start of a story involving two pies, two ovens, and two unusual friends.

A “serious, sophisticated guide” to crafting cocktails in batches to delight your guests and let you enjoy the party (The Wall Street Journal).

In this tasty little volume, wine and spirits expert Kara Newman offers forty-two fail-safe recipes for making great cocktails in batches, proving that no host need ever spend the evening trapped behind the bar. With advice on measuring and conversion techniques, helpful

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When the Duke and Duchess don't come back in time to tend to their famous tea parties, Lady Ginny the poodle and Codger the cat take over the task and play host to new guests each month, including the hungry mountain lions and beautiful butterflies.

On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.

Fly Guy misses his family, so Buzz invites them to a surprise party and his mother, father, and thousands of brothers and cousins show up--Fly Guy is delighted but Buzz's parents are not pleased.

Offers a wide array of menus for themed parties and such seasonal recipes as butternut squash, tomato fennel salad, chicken chili, and mango salsa.

"A place you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland ... where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget: September ... when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. A novel you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's September ......

One of romance's best-loved authors, Sandra Brown creates love stories whose "larger-than-life heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life" ("Rendezvous). Now the "New York Times bestselling author delivers a poignant, funny, and irresistibly sensual novel about one night in the life of a man and a woman that will change their future forever. Television producer Brin Cassidy was throwing the biggest dinner party...

Their friends must decide which party to attend when Francine schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's birthday party.