A recipe is a terrible things to waste. Or lose. This is the simple truth behind ¿By Request,¿ a weekly column that originated decades ago in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and continues today in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser¿s Wednesday Crave food section.Newspaper readers send in their requests for recipes for old-school comfort foods, for restaurant favorites, for new things they just want to try. The mission of the column has been to hunt down those recipes.Writer Betty Shimabukuroinherited By Request in 1998 and continues to field requests and solve those mysteries.By Request Highlights compiles top recipes from Betty¿s first two books¿ By Request ¿ The Search for Hawai`i¿s Greatest Recipes and By Request 2 ¿ The Continuing Search for Hawai`i¿s Greatest Recipes¿and adds more than thirty new recipes. The collection covers plate lunch standards, long-gone classics, signature restaurant dishes, and dozens of other dishes celebrating that cuisine we call ¿local.¿ It may not have a clear definition, but we know it when we taste it.The opening chapter is a salute to the foods of the Hawai`i¿s school cafeterias. The following chapters cover breakfast foods, dishes for both meat lovers and vegetarians, and desserts. The final chapter is for the advanced motivated home cook who has the time and wherewithal to take on more complicated dishes.

If only we could have a fresh start… After hearing that her husband, Andreas, was having an affair, Dominique ran away to her parents’ house. One year later, she gathers her courage and decides to ask Andreas for a fresh start. However, the woman he was rumored to be having an affair with is still there, and she’s holding a small baby in her arms… Could it be Andreas’s child? Will she ever be able to find love with him again?

DEATH BY REQUEST is Book #11 in the #1 Bestselling Caribbean Murder series, which begins with DEATH BY HONEYMOON (Book #1)--a FREE download on Play! It is also a standalone novel. In Death by Request (Book #11 of the Caribbean Murder Series), Cindy and Mattheus are given a shocking case they have never faced before: a clear-cut case of euthanasia might turn out to be something more ominous. Tara and Owen Danden, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in Jamaica, are on the water, in a boat he rented, when the weather shifts and Tara falls overboard. As Owen tries desperately to save his wife, the boat spins and hits her head—sending her into a coma. Pulled out of the water, barely alive, Tara is airlifted to an elegant hospital on the island, and remains in a coma for two months. When she finally dies, however, there becomes a question of whether she truly died of natural causes. Based on scanty evidence, Owen is taken into custody and quickly hires Cindy and Mattheus to clear his name and find out who wanted Tara dead. Cindy and Mattheus’s journey takes us through an intriguing exploration of comas, euthanasia and what happens to those in altered states. As the investigation proceeds we watch Cindy and Mattheus’s relationship ripen, and take a new turn. We also meet Tara’s crazy family, learn the secret they’ve been hiding, and see what bearing it might have on the case. As a new suspect finally comes into focus, all is not what it seems to be…