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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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English
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"The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed...
4) Fries alive!
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Freddy and the French Fries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder's Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life after receiving an enormous jolt of electricity.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Although Matilda the cat is the worst waitress at Burt's Diner because her mind is usually somewhere else--dueling pirates, lassoing bad guys, or wrestling twisters with one hand tied behind her back--no one cares since she is also the best storyteller.
8) Terroir
Publisher
YA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
Korean
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It's not exactly love at first sight when wine expert Tae-min, bumps into Woo-ju in France. Tae-min is looking to by a vintage wine that just so happens to be in Woo-ju's hands. After losing his job over the missing wine, Tae-min decides to reclaim a vintage bar owned by his late uncle and turn it into a restaurant. This does not sit well with the current barkeepers headstrong granddaughter, who happens to be Woo-ju. She decides to work for him with...
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Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 13
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A year after Tiana makes a deal with Dr. Facilier, she has her restaurant, her friends are safe, and her father is still alive, but soon shadows begin to gather and Tiana must work with Naveen and Charlotte to set things right or risk losing her soul.
10) Wildflowers
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Series
Glenbrooke series volume 8
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Genevieve finds the challenge of starting her own business surprisingly difficult, especially with her husband frequently absent, but she soon discovers the strength of her friendships, and even finds an unexpected love in the process.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1985
Language
English
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In "The Short Reign of Pippin IV," John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Hristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippins wife, Queen Marie, who might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called egg king...
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English
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The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...
13) Ratatouille
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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English
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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...
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linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Discover the leadership lessons presented in The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, an inspirational business novel by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller.
With over 20 million books in print, One-Minute Manager author Ken Blanchard is one of the world?s most popular business authors. The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do is an inspirational business novel he wrote with Mark Miller, training and development vice president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing...
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