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61) The Seaside Café
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"For three decades, the Seaside Café has served delicious meals to locals and island tourists alike. Kayana Johnson has moved home to help her brother run the café - and to nurse her wounds following a deep betrayal. She is trying to embrace a life free of entanglements. After striking up conversation with two customers, Kayana suggests a summer book club. Each week, they'll meet on the patio to talk about their favorite novels. But there are plot...
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Language
English
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A raucous novel of the lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, "a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan." Jessie, "thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine," inherited the cafe years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's county, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu--murder!
Author
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their café fails, Jack takes his mother's last few pennies and exchanges them for a can of magic baked beans that then lead Jack on a journey to a giant who is bored with counting his fortune.
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Language
English
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"Lumi Santana is a chef with a gift: she can perceive a person's emotions by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she puts her heart and savings into opening her own fusion restaurant in Upper Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines she is inspired by. When her eclectic venture fails, she is forced to...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Anna Chiu is not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction, and soon Anna is starting to feel like a normal teen. But as her mother's condition continues to decline, her family questions everything they understood about themselves and one another. --...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As if the holidays weren't stressful enough, Parker Kincade has a restaurant to open. The fact that his Groomzilla brother wants the place for his perfect Christmas wedding doesn't help. Then there's the stunning woman who appoints herself his new chef before he's ready to hire one. But one look at Gabriella Montani has Parker reassessing needs vs. wants. And that's before he tastes what she has to offer...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Val Navarro's first mistake: going out dancing after a bad breakup when the chef should be focused on her family business. Her second mistake? Thinking the handsome, sensitive stranger she meets could be more than a rebound--until she discovers he's Philip Wagner of Wagner Developments. His father's company could shut down her Puerto Rican restaurant and unravel her tight-knit neighborhood. When Philip takes over negotiations, Val wants to believe...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
72) Final sentence
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jenna Hart leaves behind the high-pressure world of advertising and returns home to Crystal Cove, California. Once there she helps an aunt open a culinary book-shop and cafe. She enlists her old college roommate, celebrity chef Desiree Divine to attend the grand opening, but when Desiree turns up dead Jenna will have to read between the lines to catch the killer before another body is served cold.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Before she started hosting dinners for Indiana University's Sociology Department at Pans'N Pancakes, Robbie Jordan never imagined scholarly meetings could be so hostile. It's all due to Professor Charles Stilton, who seems to thrive on heated exchanges with his peers and underlings, and tensions flare one night after he disrespects Robbie's friend, graduate student Lou. So when Robbie and Lou go snowshoeing the next morning and find the contentious...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clumsy, earnest baker Sylvie West has worked at the Christmas Café in Silver Bells, Wyoming, ever since her boozy eggnog fruitcake won the town's annual holiday bake-off. Her forever happy place, the café complements her sweet, well-ordered life with her roommates: recently widowed Gramps and her yappy chihuahua-pug, Crumpet. So, when Sylvie learns the café might be sold, she's determined to save it the only way she can: by getting the Holiday...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can't be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. It's Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, The Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. And yes, she's taken the first step in a new romance with her good friend,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Café is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. 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 avoid...
Author
Series
Island of Mure novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Years ago Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up - and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious...and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers - all strapping,...
Author
Publisher
Tule
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
California lawyer Mina Richards spent her childhood helping her mom bake at their winter-themed cafe in the snowy village of Gosberg, Germany. When her retired parents want to sell The Icicle Cafe, Mina returns to facilitate the sale. She needs this to go right-she'll fly in, finalize the deal and fly out to rescue her once high-powered career. But faced with Scott, her childhood friend and crush who doesn't want to sell, Mina's plan quickly falls...
80) The Sol Majestic
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite. Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley...
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