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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivan's, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over...
82) Egg drop dead
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"It was supposed to be a fancy, intimate dinner party by the pool. Instead, Lana Lee's first-ever catering event turns into full-course madness when a domestic worker is found dead. Is the party's host Donna Feng, the sweet-and-sour owner of the Asia Village shopping plaza where Ho-Lee is situated, somehow to blame? That's what Lana--whose plate is already plenty full with running the restaurant, pleasing her often-disapproving mother, and fretting...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's Independence Day in Winter Garden, Virginia, and the residents are gearing up for their annual celebration. The Down South Café is open and flourishing, and Amy Flowers is busy making pies and cakes for the holiday. The only thorn in her side is Chamber of Commerce director George Lincoln, who is trying to buy the café so he can tear it down and build a B&B on the site. When George collapses while eating at the Down South, everybody assumes...
84) A phở love story
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bảo Nguye̋n would describe himself as steady and strong: his grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents' phở restaurant-- as his parents' fifth favorite employee. Linh Mai would describe herself as a firecracker: stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She dreams pursuing a career in art, while working practically full-time at her family's phở restaurant. Bao and Linh have never even had a...
85) Musseled out
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the "Mussel King" of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles...When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger Julia's...
86) Murder lo mein
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she's been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland's Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win--at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off... Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides...
87) Café con lychee
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marygene Brown always figured she'd marry her childhood sweetheart, Alex Myers, not cater his wedding. But the Peach Diner could use the exposure. Most of the island is showing up - although more for the role-playing murder game at the reception than for the widely loathed bridezilla, Lucy Carmichael. Marygene may have to smile through the festivities, but Mama doesn't have to hold her peace - especially since only Marygene can hear her mother's ghost....
89) The Goodbye Café
Author
Series
Hudson sisters novels volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Allie Hudson Monroe can't wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania. Her life and her fourteen-year-old daughter are in Los Angeles, but her divorce left her tottering on the edge of bankruptcy. Allie's long-forgotten artistry saves the day when the theater's renovation fund dried up, and she felt like the woman she was always meant...
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English
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"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family's secrets and simmering resentments...
91) No parm no foul
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Series
Grilled cheese mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a long hot summer in Balsam Dell, Carly Hale is ready for crisp Vermont weather and gourmet grilled cheeses at her Grilled Cheese Eatery. And the upcoming Halloween food competition is the perfect way to impress the locals. But Ferris Menard, the owner of Sub-a-Dub-Sub, is nursing a serious grudge against Carly. Two days before the competition, one of Carly's employees quit his part-time gig at Menard's sub shop, sending Menard into a serious...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When the library roof collapses from the harsh winter weather, diner owner and comfort food chef Trixie Matkowski decides to organize a mac-and-cheese cook-off to raise funds for repairs. Priscilla Finch-Smythe, famous TV chef and former Sandy Harbor resident, is not only available to judge the contest--she's offering an appearance on her show as the grand prize. Trixie hopes that winning first place in the cook-off will help boost publicity for...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie is busy handling the first ever convention of the Association of Ghost Kitchens--restaurants that do delivery only--but she's taking a little time out for a lunch meeting organized by A Healthy Meal. The group is dedicated to providing meals for children in need, and as a bonus, it'll give Sophie the perfect opportunity to ogle the lavish Old Town home of socialite Geraldine Stansfield. Gerrie's dining room is impeccably furnished, the table...
94) Italian iced
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Series
Ethnic eats mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Laurel Inwood features Italian cuisine on the Terminal at the Tracks menu, she knows she'll need to stock the shelves, the fridge, and the freezer with plenty of wonderful delicacies. She just never expected one of them to be her former employer, Hollywood superstar Megan Cohan. And one day, when Laurel is at the the restaurant early to get ready for the regular rush of customers, that's exactly what she finds - Meghan dead in the Terminal freezer....
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as "brown boy" by small-minded,...
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English
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"Vaughn Miller's Wall Street career was abruptly ended by a wrongful conviction and two years in prison. Since then, he's returned to his hometown, kept his head down and forged a way forward. When he is exonerated and his name cleared, he feels he can hold his head up once again, maybe even talk to the beautiful café owner who sets his blood to simmering. Sierra Crane escaped a disastrous marriage--barely. She and her six-year-old goddaughter have...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead--after...
Author
Publisher
Rae Katherine Eighmey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With holiday season fast approaching and the Iowa presidential caucus soon to follow, Susan Stewart's fledgling Potluck Paradise Cafe is humming with the creation of new, delicious dishes to please the appetites of her Lake Livonia community. But then, a mysterious note included in a Christmas card from her friend and mentor, Hazel Romer, who skipped town in the middle of a July night, raises important questions. What was the skeleton in Hazel's...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For Sandy Harbor's tastiest comfort food, venture to the Silver Bullet Diner. But head next door to the new drive-in theater if you have an appetite for murder.... Trixie Matkowski has a tall order to fill this fall. Aside from dishing out delicious fare at the Silver Bullet during peak fishing season, she's helping her friend--Antoinette Chloe Brown, or ACB for short--open a drive-in movie theater in the vacant lot beside her diner. It's just the...
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Raw Dog Screaming Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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On June 1, 2017, six people were killed at a Burger City franchise off I-80 near Jonny, Iowa. It was the bizarre and gruesome conclusion to nine months of alleged paranormal activity at the fast-food joint-events popularly known as "the Burger City Poltergeist."
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