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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
43) Turn up the heat
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Leandra, a Simmer server, turns up strangled with her own apron strings in a seafood delivery truck . Most of the restaurant's staff appear to have despised her, but who hated her enough to kill her?
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night in Moonbright, Maine, three single women, with autumn leaves swirling about and the fragrance of fresh-baked pie in the air, fall for the most tantalizing trick-and the most delightful treat-the magic of true love.
45) Murder lo mein
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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...
46) Up to no gouda
Author
Series
Grilled cheese mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the town bully goes after her Grilled Cheese Eatery, threatening to close her down after buying the building, and then winds up dead behind her dumpster, Carly Hale, to save her business, must prove her innocence before having a meltdown.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes...
48) Cinco de murder
Author
Series
Taste of Texas volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When her uncle is accused of murdering the competition during the first annual chili cook-off in Broken Boot, Texas, Tex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan must serve some Lone Star justice and catch the real killer before things get even hotter.
49) Salem Falls
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
50) Wildflowers
Author
Series
Glenbrooke series volume 8
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
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.
51) Froggy eats out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"“Pair your noodles with this steaming mystery, and you have the perfect chilly night combination!”٬٢٠١٥؛PopSugar They say fortune favors the bold, and Lana Lee is determined to prove that true. Lana, now officially manager of her family’s restaurant, the Ho-Lee Noodle House, is headed to sunny Irvine, California to attend a restaurant convention with her sister, Anna May, along for the ride. The girls’ very Americanized Aunt Grace...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
Author
Series
Skinny Bitch novels volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Clementine Cooper, an ambitious 26-year-old sous-chef at a vegan restaurant in Santa Monica, opens her own cooking school after a rival sabotages her food during a food critic's visit. She fantasizes about opening her own vegan restaurant and finds the perfect spot only to find out that restaurateur Zach Jeffries is opening a steakhouse in the space. When the two meet an attraction develops but can two people who are so different actually find love?...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine...
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Anna Kate Callow has returned to the charming little town of Wicklow, Alabama, to settle her beloved grandmother's affairs, which means closing Granny Zee's cherished restaurant, the Blackbird Café. To her surprise, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and to the mysterious blackbird pies some people insist contain a little magic. Anna Kate isn't the only one coming home....
58) Italian iced
Author
Series
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
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
When Chef Charlotte “Charlie” Cooke was offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, and take over her mother’s diner, she didn’t even consider saying no. For the past year, she’s built a comfortable existence, spending her days making sure the restaurant runs smoothly and that her cat, Eggs Benedict, is appropriately pampered. But soon life at the diner starts feeling a little one-note. Determined to bring...
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 15
Publisher
Recorded Books, Llc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The newest installment in the beloved and best-selling series. In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes...
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