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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Bar Harbor, Maine, is quieter in the off-season, but the population has just increased a bit with the arrival of Ted and Trudy Lancaster. Ted's taking over for a retiring minister, and Trudy runs a food truck called Wicked 'Wiches. When she stops in at the Island Times office to place an ad, Hayley happily devours the sample sub Trudy offers -- and the two become fast friends. When Trudy tragically dies in her truck while catering a Halloween party,...
Author
Series
Galactic hot dogs volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Cosmoe the Earth-boy and his space-adventuring partners, Big Humphree and Princess Dagger, return--just in time to save the galaxy...Crostini's Cosmic Carnival is a strange, monster-filled space train that travels the galaxy. When Cosmoe catches the attention of the carnival's ringmaster, the Neon Wiener, hot-dog-selling spaceship, becomes part of the show. Cosmoe is now known as Cosmoe the Monster-Tamer--and he's a hit across the galaxy! Just one...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime on the move, Ivy Snow is an expert in all things temporary--schools, friends, and way too many Mr. Wrongs. Now that she owns a successful taco truck in San Francisco and an apartment to call home, Ivy's reinvented life is on solid ground. And she's guarded against anything that can rock it. Like the realities of a past she's worked hard to cover up. And especially Kel O'Donnell. Too hot not to set off alarms, he screams temporary....
4) Simmer down
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen. Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn't be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve up mouthwatering Filipino dishes to hungry beach goers, but she didn't expect the Maui food truck scene to be so eat-or-be-eaten--or the competition to be so smoking hot. But Tiva's Filipina Kusina has faced bigger road bumps than the arrival of Callum...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises, ULC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
One impetuous, slightly drunken kiss has turned up the heat on chef Amar Virani's feelings for Divya Shah. He's been in love with the sexy pastry chef--his sister's best friend!--since they were teenagers, but a painful tragedy in his past keeps Amar from revealing his true emotions. As they work side by side in Divya's tiny food truck, she realizes there's more than just business simmering between them. For the first time, she's tempted to step outside...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G's, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When she's once again passed over for a promotion at work, Zoe decides to take the big leap and go for her dream. She quits, gives up her fancy digs, and buys a fixer-upper diner in a shady part of town. To keep above water during the renovation, she buys a used food truck to serve the downtown and waterfront of Mobile, Alabama. Zoe starts to dish out classic Southern food--but her specialty is her deep-fried biscuit bowls that blow traditional bread...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With a few loyal friends in tow including her handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Cr©·me Br©{u00ac}l©♭e Zoe drives the Biscuit Bowl to Charlotte, North Carolina, to enter a nationally televised food truck race. The contest features challenges across the Southeast, and with a fifty-thousand-dollar grand prize, competition isńt just fierce, itś killer. As everyone gears up for the first challenge, another food trucker from Zoeś hometown...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two weeks of carnival celebrations has got Zoe running ragged. By day, she charms hungry tourists with authentic Southern cuisine. At night, she accompanies her father to one masquerade ball after another, hobnobbing with the high rollers of the secret cabal known as the Mistics of Time. But the fun turns frightening when Zoe stumbles across "Death{u2019}s" dead body. Journalist Jordan Phillips attended the Mistics{u2019} latest bash in a traditional...
Author
Series
Ground Rules volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Portland, Oregon. Sage Caplin has high hopes for her coffee cart, Ground Rules. Her business partner, Harley, is a genius at roasting beans and devising new blends. Then Sage finds a customer's body in front of her cart, a fatal slash across his neck. She knows the locals have intensely strong opinions, but who would be mad enough to commit murder? Sage is already fending off trouble in the form of her estranged, con-artist mother, but when her very...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Anxious to take a break from bustling San Francisco, Darcy and her Aunt Abby pack up the food truck and head for the apple festival at Apple Valley, California. Aunt Abby is sure her almond apple tarts will be a hit and Darcy wants to collect more recipes for her food truck cookbook. They soon discover that murder is in attendance when the body of a fellow festival-goer is found, and they must try to stop a killer who is rotten to the core.
Author
Series
Food festival mysteries (Penny Pike) volume 2
Publisher
NAL
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"At this year's chocolate festival, Darcy and her Aunt Abby hope to win the $10,000 prize in the chocolate contest with Aunt Abby's taste sensation: the chocolate raspberry whoopee pie. A little friendly competition from Darcy's sometime-beau Jake Miller, who plans to enter with his chocolate cream puff delight, only sweetens the deal. But things get sticky when one of the judges, Polly Montgomery, is taken out of commission--permanently. The suspects...
14) Tacos for two
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Language
English
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Description
"Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red--and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via...
Author
Series
Ground Rules volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At Campathon, an annual eco-friendly festival held on a farm outside of Portland ... Sage has scored a coveted place for her Ground Rules coffee cart thanks to her new-ish boyfriend, Bax, who's friendly with Maya, one of the musicians performing ... When Sage stumbles upon [a] dead body in the nearby woods--his hand still clutching one of her coffee mugs--it's clear that someone's grudge boiled over into murder"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As tensions between food-truck vendors and market vendors escalate, Becca Robins, selling her delicious jams and preserves, must prove her cousin's innocence when she is accused of murdering the town's business manager. Includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Birch Tree, Maine, is experiencing a rash of deaths, all mysteriously linked to food trucks that frequent the Birch Point Lake Park. Mey's noodle truck was her ticket to a new life, until her ex-boyfriend threatens to take it away. Angel's new donut truck was doing great, until deathly rumors started. Shanice thought she had customer support when taking over her grandpa's potato truck, until one started complaining. Marisol's taco truck is a fixture...
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