01922cam a2200313 4500 982945170 TxAuBib 20230914120000.0 230817s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023025660 9780778334408 0778334406 (OCoLC)1394019944 TxAuBib Meltzer, Jean, author. Kissing kosher / Jean Meltzer. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2023] 412 pages ; 21 cm. Includes discussion questions. Avital Cohen isn't wearing underpants--woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It's all she can do to manage her family's kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing. She needs hired help. And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit. Except Ethan isn't there to work--he's undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann's is a household name when it comes to mass-produced kosher baked goods, they don't have the charm of Avital's bakery. Or her grandfather's world-famous pumpkin spice babka recipe. As they bake side by side, Ethan soon finds himself more interested in Avital than in stealing family secrets, especially as he helps her find the chronic pain relief--and pleasure--she's been missing. But perfecting the recipe for romance calls for leaving out the lies...even if coming clean means risking everything. 20230914. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Jews Fiction. Bakeries Fiction. Interstitial cystitis Patients Fiction. Deception Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Romance fiction.