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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 ......
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Pub. Date
2007
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When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate at least until the first dead body shows up.
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Debutante dropout mysteries volume 1
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Mixing a dash of Dallas society, a pinch of Janet Evanovich, and murder in the land of big hair, Blue Blood is the first installment in award-winning author Susan McBride's sassy Debutante Dropout mystery series.
To the dismay of her high society mother, Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life-opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend Molly O'Brien is...
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Managing a failed seafood restaurant in a run-down New England mall just before Christmas, Manny DeLeon coordinates a challenging final shift of mutinous staff members, an effort that is complicated by his love for a waitress, a pregnant girlfriend, and an elusive holiday gift.
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[2006]
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New Yorker Clare Cosi manages a coffee shop, but this summer she'll leave it behind as she heads for the Hamptons-and perhaps the biggest jolt of her life... Clare Cosi's new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she'll relax, soak up the sun, and, oh yes, train the staff of his new restaurant. So Clare packs up her daughter,...
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"Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound." —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It’s a boring job, but...
8) Ratatouille
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p2007
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A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage...
9) Restaurant
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c2000
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An exploration of the comings and goings of the interracial staff of waiters, waitresses, bartenders, cooks and managers as they work together in a bar and grill in Hoboken, New Jersey. They are all waiting for their big breaks into the theater scene.
10) Adopt a highway
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[2019]
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Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
11) Still waiting
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[2009]
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Follows the continuing adventures of the wait staff at Shenaniganz restaurant. Many familiar faces are still there, showing a new generation of servers the ropes. The heat is on the team to smash the competition.
12) Union
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[2022]
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"Tuck navigates new love, past trauma and standing up for what's right in this novel in verse. Grace has caught my eye / I stare and stare / at this girl I’ve missed / since we were five. Abuse at the hands of his mother's boyfriend has left fifteen-year-old Tuck broken and untrusting. But then he falls hard for his childhood friend Grace and starts to imagine a life where he is happy. At the fast-food restaurant where he works, Tuck is asked to...
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Short-tempered with a bit of a potty mouth, Cherry Kerrigan knows exactly what she wants. She loves her little town, the dingy little trailer she lives in with her family, her job at the Burrito Barn, and her boyfriend. But when she saves a British starlett from choking, Cherry's life takes an unexpected turn. Ardelia Deen likes Cherry's take on life and hires her as a personal consultant, sweeping Cherry into the glamorous life. But when the family's...
14) Restaurant
Pub. Date
c2007
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An exploration of the comings and goings of the interracial staff of waiters, waitresses, bartenders, cooks and managers as they work together in a bar and grill in Hoboken, New Jersey. They are all waiting for their big breaks into the theater scene.
15) Diner Dogs
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2021.
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"What are diner dogs? Diner dogs cook pancakes the most. They like to fetch...tea and french toast!"--Dust jacket.
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[2023]
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In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
Over-achievement isn't a bad word, for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain...
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