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Series
Elite guardians volume 2
Language
English
Description
Restaurant owner Daniel Matthews has become the target of someone who will go to any lengths to put him out of business. Another attack and his niece's urgings make him consider a bodyguard from the Elite Guardians Protection Agency, and they must figure out who's behind the intimidation and threats before the attacks turn deadly.
2) Empire Falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When pro baseball player Chase Walker first meets Amanda at her restaurant, it's love at first sight. While Amanda can't help noticing the superstar with the Greek-god-build, he doesn't have a chance of getting to first--or any other--base with her. A successful entrepreneur who's built her business from scratch, Amanda doesn't need a Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet. And a curvy girl who likes to cook and eat isn't interested in being around...
Author
Language
English
Description
Connor O'Rourke is ready to get married, but his on-again, off-again girlfriend Jessica Dunn doesn't think marriage is for her. If she won't marry him, Connor intends to find someone who will. But it's hard to walk away from the only woman he's ever loved. And maybe Jessica isn't quite as sure as she thinks.
Author
Series
Sweet Magnolias novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
When her teenage daughter ends up in the hospital after starving herself, chef Dana Sue must embrace the power of forgiveness when her cheating husband, whom she kicked out, returns home to help her deal with their self-destructive child.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Red Lobster restaurant perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff. All the while, he's wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, what to do about his pregnant girlfriend, and where to find the present that will make everything better.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The celebrity chef and international restaurateur shares the story of his life, from his devotion to his family to his struggles with depression, while reflecting on the philosophies that have made him one of the world's most respected culinary artists.
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While staying with her brother in St. Dennis, Maryland, to figure things out, Sophie Enright impulsively buys a boarded-up building to open a restaurant, which pits her against landscaper Jason Bowers, who also wants the property.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
McDonald's is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing--even in tough financial times. McDonald's has been a trendsetter in advertising, focusing on different ethnic groups as well as the physically disabled. McDonald's created McJobs, a program that employs both mentally challenged adults and senior citizens. And because its franchisees have their fingers on the pulse of the marketplace,...
12) The Blue Bistro
Author
Language
English
Description
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 ......
13) Blitzed
Author
Series
Playbook volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Maxwell has finally met an opponent that he can't best in this new football romance from the author of Fumbled. According to Brynn Larson, Maxwell Lewis is more trouble than he's worth. She doesn't care if he's a football god with a rock-hard body that brings most women to their knees. After an encounter that ends poorly, she's not interested in giving him a second chance. The last thing Brynn expects is for him to turn up at her bar months later,...
15) Quentins
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Language
English
Description
Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. After all, the restaurant saw the people of a city become more confident in everything, from their lifestyles to the food that they chose to eat. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Fortune by any other name? Still means trouble! As vice president of Mendoza Winery, Miami transplant Carlo Mendoza knows most of the famous Fortunes. So when sultry Schuyler Fortunado saunters into the tasting room, claiming a connection to the Texas family, naturally he's suspicious. Which doesn't stop him from hiring her -- or desiring her! The divorced restaurateur has vowed to keep his heart off the menu, but this feisty (faux?) Fortune...
17) The guest room
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
18) Leonard part 6
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Leonard Parker, a former secret agent turned restauranteur, is on a madcap mission to save his marriage, his daughter's reputation and the world from the evil Medusa Johnson and her vast army of killer frogs, lobsters and horses.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon...
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon...
20) The color of tea
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of Macau, China about a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small cafe forms unlikely friendships, and gains the eventually the courage to trust what's in her heart"--