Homberg, Ruth
Summary: Tiana warms up a cold winter day at her restaurant with a party and some yummy winter treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2018
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Summary: Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TURCleary, Rhona
Summary: Arriving in NYC for a culinary apprenticeship under Chef Leroy at Harlem's most celebrated restaurant, Tiana struggles to juggle the dueling demands of her mentor while experiencing Harlem's exciting cultural scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jim Gill 2009
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Summary: "Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEMorrill, Lauren
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Beck rediscovers herself while working with a group of misfits at the local pizza parlor where she was born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORPark, Suzanne
Summary: "Chloe Kwon can't stand Peter Li. It's always been that way. Their families don't get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court--Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it's the holiday season and Chloe's the photographer at the mall's Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARStradal, J. Ryan
Summary: Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where shes been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariels grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Hudson Avery gave up a promising competitive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OCKPacton, Jamie
Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PACStradal, J. Ryan
Summary: "This novel is the story of Mariel and Ned, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRYee, Lisa
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEEMarks, Janae
Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARSchwartz, Alexandra Cassel
Summary: "Daniel Tiger and Jodi Platypus are going to a restaurant with their families. How will they stay calm?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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Summary: "Jocelyn "Jos" Wu has two wishes: to make it through high school without dying of boredom and to direct a short film with her best friend. Will Domenici has two goals: to get assigned to a worthwhile position at his school paper and to find a paying summer gig. When Jos's father tells her their family restaurant may be going under and Will learns he didn't land his dream job at the school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GREO'Nan, Stewart
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONASeltzer, Eric
Summary: In this entertaining Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read, the diner dogs who work at the Bow Wow diner fetch tea and coffee and love belly rubs as they serve all the hungry customers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SELBrewer, Killian B.
Summary: When Marcus Sumter, a short order cook with dreams of being a chef, inherits a house in small town Marathon, Georgia, he leaves his big city life behind. Marcus intends to sell the house to finance his dreams, but a group of lovable busybodies called the Do Nothings, a new job at the local diner, the Tammy Dinette, and a handsome mechanic named Hank cause Marcus to rethink his plans. Will he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREClose, Jennifer
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLORue, Gretchen
Summary: "Este March runs the family-owned Lucky Pie Diner on Split Pine Island in Northern Michigan. The pies at Lucky Pie aren't just good, they're magical, with a family recipe that grants certain customers their greatest hopes and dreams when they eat the pie. The remote island is closed to outsiders over the winter months, but on the last day of the season, the unpopular new produce vendor, Jeff,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RUELe, Loan
Summary: High school seniors Bảo and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEGalvan, Ana
Summary: "A science-fiction graphic novella grounded in a familiar experience for most: spending an afternoon with our best pals over a burger and fries. But this joint has something more special than a Happy Meal: the "Once Party" menu. The "Once Party" menu, for ages 11 and up, can only be ordered once (of course). But there's a catch: not everyone who does gets the special prize. Those who do, go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GALManansala, Mia P.
Summary: "When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can't be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. It's Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, The Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. And yes, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCavender, Chris.
Summary: When snooty Judson Sizemore breezes into Timber Ridge, North Carolina, to open an upper-crust pizza parlor near A Slice of Delight, Eleanor and Maddie Swift's biggest worry is that their beloved restaurant's days are numbered--until they hear that Judsonhas met a most gruesome end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011