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21) Keeping the moon
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
22) Worth the wait
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Guthrie brothers volume 2
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Taking a job as head chef at the most popular BBQ joint in Clearbrook, Ohio, single father Hogan Guthrie butts heads with the restaurants opinionated manager Violet Shaw, while Clearbrook sheriff Nathan Hawley is drawn to his mysterious new neighbor, Brooklin Sweet.
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Fannie Flagg meets Elin Hilderbrand in this deliciously charming debut novel about fried chicken, family feuds, and the foibles of the human heart. In the tiny town of Merinac, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to be the restaurant that serves up the best fried chicken in Kansas--and the legendary bad blood between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. But there's one person...
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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...
26) Flight lessons
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Anna has studiously avoided her Aunt Rose-the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world-ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland's eastern shore, but she can't forgive or forget.
Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family's restaurant, where...
27) Love me back
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Single mother Marie hides her private struggles behind her professionalism as a waitress at an upscale Dallas steak house before succumbing to self-destructive habits.
28) Tantalize
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When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
29) Lessons Learned
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"America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker), #1 bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts, tantalizes hearts in Lessons Learned, a story of two people from different countries and cultures, who together make the perfect recipe for romance.
Throughout Italy, master chef Carlo Franconi is famous for his culinary creations. Publicist to the stars Juliet Trent has prepared a worldwide tour that will showcase his irresistible international fare to every restauranteur...
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The last thing Melanie expected to lose when she went on a diet was her husband.
Former lawyer Melanie Hoffman lost half her body weight and opened a gourmet take-out café specializing in healthy and delicious food. Then her husband left her—for a woman twice her size. Immediately afterwards, she's blindsided by a financial crisis. Melanie reaches out to a quirky roommate with a ton of baggage and becomes involved in a budding...
Former lawyer Melanie Hoffman lost half her body weight and opened a gourmet take-out café specializing in healthy and delicious food. Then her husband left her—for a woman twice her size. Immediately afterwards, she's blindsided by a financial crisis. Melanie reaches out to a quirky roommate with a ton of baggage and becomes involved in a budding...
31) Finding Yvonne
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Raised by a workaholic father who is a restauranteur, Yvonne, eighteen, faces difficult choices about love, her training as a violinist, college, and career as high school graduation draws near.
32) Twisted Creek
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Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek café, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's 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 even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
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Kebab catering for a Jersey Shore wedding should be a breeze—until someone roasts the best man in this mystery by the author of Hummus and Homicide.
Lucy Berberian is happy to be back home on the Jersey Shore after leaving her Philadelphia law firm. Taking over her family's Mediterranean restaurant, Kebab Kitchen, has been a dream come true. And now things are starting to heat up in the kitchen, with her gorgeous ex Azad
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"Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. Lana Lee is back at her family's restaurant after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out. Lana 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 when the restaurant's property manager,...
36) The Goodbye Café
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Hudson sisters novels volume 3
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"From Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Chesapeake Diaries series, comes the next book in her popular Hudson Sisters series, which follows a trio of reluctant sisters who set out to fulfill their father's dying wish and discover themselves in the process in this "sweet reminder of the importance of family" (First for Women). California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can't wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater...
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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...
38) Crescent
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Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
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"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...
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Whistle Stop AL volume 2
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"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church-going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
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