Pi Day

Books for Pi Day 2025 from Lake Oswego Public Library

Updated February 23, 2025
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Pies and prejudice
Adams, Ellery.
Paper Book
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the...
Till death do us tart
Alexander, Ellie
Paper Book
Torte--the small-town bakeshop no one can resist--is hosting a midsummer night's wedding . . . where merry-making and murder are served up in equal measure. Till Death Do Us Tart is Ellie Alexander's eighth delectable novel in the Bakeshop mystery series. Jules Capshaw...
Save room for pie : food songs and chewy ruminations
Blount, Roy, Jr.
Paper Book
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, "We lived. We ate." Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most cherished comic writers. He's been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from "a work of art" (Robert W....
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Bradley, C. Alan
Paper Book
Flavia, an 11-year-old with a chemistry lab, finds a corpse in a cucumber patch and applies the detective skills she learned plotting against her older sisters. This debut mystery by a Canadian author won the 2007 Crime Writer Association's Debut Dagger Award.
The key lime crime
Burdette, Lucy
Paper Book
When a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef's murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied. It's bad enough that Hayley s too-curious mother-in-law is cooking up trouble, but now the murderer is out to take a slice out of Hayley. Can she handle the heat of a killer...
How to bake pi an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics
Cheng, Eugenia
Paper Book
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? InHow to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the...
Blackberry pie murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
Life is never really quiet for Hannah Swensen. Her mother's wedding is a month away and guess who's in charge of the planning? Yet just when her biggest challenge seems to be whether to use buttercream or fondant for the wedding cake, Hannah accidentally hits a stranger with her cookie truck on a...
Chocolate cream pie murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakery-not the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But that's practically impossible with a disturbing visit from the shifty character she...
Pie Town
Hinton, Lynne
Paper Book
"Lynne Hinton deftly pens an uplifting tale of hope, faith, and community." --Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author of The Welcome Home Garden Club "Hinton's writing style is similar to Eudora Welty's: easy, conversational, down-home." --Greensboro News &...
Making piece a memoir of love, loss, and pie
Howard, Beth M.
Paper Book
"You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It's bitter. It's messy. It's got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn't perfect, it still turns out okay in the end."...
Lemon tart : a culinary mystery
Kilpack, Josi S.
Paper Book
A recipe for murder! 5 families living on Peregrine Circle 1 flowered curtain tieback 1 missing child 1 body in the field Mix with a long list of suspects and top with two very different detectives....
Love, lies, and cherry pie : a novel
Lau, Jackie
Paper Book
Jackie Lau, author of the "full of heart" (Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author) The Stand-Up Groomsman, returns with a charming rom-com about a young woman's desperate attempts to fend off her meddling mother...only to find that maybe mother does know best. ...
Life of Pi
Lee, Ang
Mr. & Mrs. American Pie
McDaniel, Juliet
Paper Book
Stream Palm Royale now on Apple TV+ "A gorgeously messy and misguided heroine. I love this story."--Laura Dern "The perfect blend of salty and sweet."--Booklist (starred review) "Hilarious."--Refinery29 ...
The curse of the cherry pie
Meade, Amy Patricia
Paper Book
A sharp and tangy culinary mystery featuring Tish Tarragon. Can Tish beat the curse of the cherry pie to win first prize at the Virginia Commonwealth Bake-Off? When literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon's friend and star baker at Cookin' the Books cafe, Celestine Rufus,...
Death by tart attack
Myers, Tamar
Paper Book
Magdalena Yoder is accused of murdering her ex-husband in this delightfully quirky cozy mystery set among Pennsylvania's Amish-Mennonite community. "You're going to be sorry, Aaron Paul Miller. Before I'm through with you, you're going to wish that you were dead."...
Sweet as pie
Pace, Alicia Hunter
Paper Book
A pro hockey player learns that home is where the heart is in the first novel of a delightful new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Alicia Hunter Pace Evans Pemberton has always had a problem saying no. To her overbearing Mississippi Delta family, to her business...
Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world
Parker, Matt (Mathematician)
Paper Book
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER   AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?"  "Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining,...
A good day to pie
Popp, Misha
Paper Book
Everyone loves a good pie. But how about a pie that's as deadly as it is delectable? Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town's worst cads. Now, Daisy's entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at 100k dollars...
A good day to pie
Popp, Misha
Paper Book
Everyone loves a good pie. But how about a pie that's as deadly as it is delectable? Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town's worst cads. Now, Daisy's entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k...
Magic, lies, and deadly pies : a novel
Popp, Misha
Paper Book
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it's her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who've done dirty deeds to the town's women. But then Daisy is informed by Frank, the crusty diner owner, that...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "Treat yourself to this book, please--I can't recommend it highly enough."--Elizabeth Gilbert,...
Midnight at the Blackbird Café
Webber, Heather S.
Paper Book
Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café.It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother's estate, but despite her best intentions to...

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