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"This novel is the story of Mariel and Ned, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them"--
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than...
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"Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well--until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still...
23) The Blue Bistro
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Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast money. When the desirable Thatcher Smith, owner of Nantucket's hottest restaurant, is the only one to offer her a job, she wonders if she can get by with no restaurant experience. Thatcher gives Adrienne a crash course in the business...and...
24) Lone Star Cafe
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Lisa Wingate, national best-selling author and inspirational speaker, delivers a novel that examines the paths we choose in life and the realization that we may be on the wrong one. One morning while running late to work, Laura Draper is ambushed by a future-determining call from her boyfriend that ends in an ultimatum. Suddenly, Laura finds herself at a crossroads and she is unsure of her next move.
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For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family's restaurant, where she watched as her father, who was also the chef, ruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant. At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at her father's Milwaukee-based restaurant, where she and her eight older siblings before her did service in a situation of controlled chaos, learning...
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Zoe Washington stories volume 2
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Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
27) Returning Pride
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Pride (Jill Sanders) volume 3
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A journey of self-discovery and healing that will touch your heart and soul.
Everything seems to be going Iian's way, he has a successful restaurant, a beautiful home, family, and friends. He's even overcome the loss of his hearing, but why does he still feel like something is missing?
Allison has worked hard to make a name for herself in the art world; now all she wants is peace and quiet to work on her passion. But, with her mother overtaken by...
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"With a little determination and a lot of charm, Rosa Capoletti took a run-down pizza joint and turned it into an award-winning restaurant that has been voted 'best place to propose' three years in a row. For Rosa, though, there has been no real romance since her love affair with Alexander Montgomery ended without explanation a decade ago. But guess who's just come back to town? Reunited at the beach house where they first fell in love, Rosa and Alexander...
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"Anita Bedford needs to face reality. It's time to decaffeinate the dream that she and Tanner will ever be more than friends. Growing up in small-town Maple Falls, she's had a crush on Tanner for years. But he'll only ever see her as good, old, dependable Anita. Now she's finally ready to make her own goals a reality. In fact, that deserted building next door to Sunshine Diner looks like a promising location to open her own cafe. Tanner Castillo may...
30) A deadly beef
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Classic diner novels volume 2
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"When a local supplier is murdered on his farm after a very public confrontation at The Charming Moose Diner, Victoria and her grandfather, Moose, must find the real killer before the bad beef they had gets even worse!" -- Cover p. [4].
31) A tangled web
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Perhaps Jane Peart's finest novel--the story of a young woman in the early 1900s who overcomes adversity by embracing faith.
Darcy Welburne has seen enough of politics from the long line of judges in her family. So when Grady, her fiancé, tells her he is running for sheriff, she sets off to find the new freedom promised by the American West. She escapes to Juniper Junction, thinking a teaching job is waiting for her.
When she discovers the position...
32) A real pickle
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Classic diner novels volume 6
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"When dying pickle-fortune heir Curtis Trane finally succumbs in the Charming Moose Diner everyone believes that it's just the end of the man's long illness, but upon closer examination, it turns out that Curtis has been murdered! In a plea from beyond the grave, Curtis asks Moose and Victoria to solve his homicide, and the two must leave everything they know and venture out into the rich man's rarefied world."--P. [4] of cover.
33) Killer kung pao
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"Lana Lee's plate is already plenty full. Running her family's Chinese restaurant in Cleveland's Asia Village is challenging on the best of days. But just when Lana thinks she might be able to catch her breath before the weekend--which she's eager to spend with her equally overworked boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau--Lana witnesses a car accident in the parking lot. And now she has no choice but to get involved. June Yi, of Yi's Tea and Bakery, is...
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Where are the best meals in the United States? For Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post's food critic, the answer is more than a test. It's a quest-one that can end in your own kitchen.
Follow Tom as he dines, drinks and browses at 271 restaurants, bars and shops while reporting for his project "America's Best Food Cities." Along the way, he measures how each city stacks up in terms of creativity, community, tradition, ingredients, shopping, variety...
35) A chili death
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"Husband and wife team Greg and Victoria run the Charming Moose Diner ... When a stranger shows up one day and tells them he owns the land the diner was built on, there's a scramble to dig up secrets from the past that lead to murder in the present"--Page 4 of cover.
36) A baked ham
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Classic diner novels volume 4
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When a local actor is killed after making a pass at Moose's wife, Victoria and her family must find the culprit before Moose is locked up for murder. It's not going to be easy though, because Benny Booth had a real talent for making enemies!
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For once, no one is trying to pin a murder on Eleanor Swift, owner of the Slice of Delight pizzeria in the quiet town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina. But someone has to answer for that body in her kitchen ... and it looks like the final stop for her deliveryman, Greg Hatcher, might be the penitentiary. But Eleanor knows Greg would never have bashed his brother, Wade, in the head with a pizza rolling pin. So she and saucy sister Maddy dig a little...
38) Irish stewed
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2016
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After flopping as a personal chef to a Hollywood movie star, jobless Laurel Inwood finds herself humbled in Hubbard, Ohio, helping her aunt.--[4]Cover.
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"Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than...
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Sweet Island Inn volume 3
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"The wedding of the year versus the storm of the century. Who will win? Things are finally looking up for the Benson family. After a year of tough choices and big leaps of faith, it seems like love, success, and happiness are right in their grasp. But with a wedding on the horizon and a successful new restaurant growing faster than anyone ever expected, everyone certainly has their hands full. In fact, it's starting to cause problems. Little cracks...