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When tragedy strikes the smalltown of Aghia Anna in the form of a devastating fire on a tourist pleasure boat--24 people are killed--elderly barkeeper Andreas and craft-shop owner Vonni find themselves host to a random assortment of travelers who watch the conflagration from Andreas's taverna.
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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 she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the...
3) Empire falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan (presided over by the last scionś widow) now mostly amount to decrepit real estate. The working classes, meanwhile, continue to eke out whatever meager promise isnt́ already boarded up....
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English
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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...
5) Rare birds
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dave's marriage is dead and his restaurant just went belly up. Alphonse, Dave's neighbor, hatches a mad-yet-ingenious scheme in the hopes of saving his buddy's sagging fortune. After staging the sightings of an extremely rare bird in the neighborhood, bird watchers and hungry patrons the world over, flock to the area. But soon, Dave's restaurant is swimming in controversy.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
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146 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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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.
7) The founder
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The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
8) Quentins
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English
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Ella Brady, hoping to capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s through the end of the century by filming a documentary on the popular restaurant, Quentins, and its owners, Patrick and Brenda Brennan, begins to wonder if there are some stories that are just too precious to be told.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2007
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xvi, 380 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
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English
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The authorized biography of Alice Waters and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine." Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in Berkeley, a young Francophile opened a small restaurant for her friends and launched an entirely new way of...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Danish
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Welcome to Malus, the bright new star in the culinary sky in Denmark. Here, the power couple Maggie and Carsten rule. The prestigious Michelin star is yet to be secured and the couple is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve their dream. In their tireless chase after the ultimate recognition, they forget that the best meals in life are shared together.
11) Sunset express
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English
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On his own turf in LA, Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. Hired by the defence lawyer to investigate alleged evidence tampering by the detective on the case, Cole soon begins to be more suspicious of the media-loving lawyers than the cops.
12) I am love
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italiano
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The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate...
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Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
303 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients has always determined the restaurant’s cuisine, and, over the course of forty years, Chez Panisse has helped create a community of local farmers and...
14) Over the line
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
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478 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"In this high-stakes romantic suspense novel where tensions mount on both sides of the border, bestselling author Kelly Irvin explores what happens when the past explodes against the present and the only person you can turn to is the one who broke your heart"--
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
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307 p. ; 26 cm.
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English
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Sixty-five-year-old Framboise Simon, hiding her true identity, returns to the small town of her youth where she opens a cafe and discovers, hidden in her mother's book of recipes, the true story of the terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades earlier--an event that resulted in her mother being driven from the village.
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"Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo: her blackmailing abuelo says if she wants to change anything in his restaurant, she'll have to marry the one man she can't stand: his friend's grandson. Liam Kane spent a decade working to turn his family's...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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203 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Liz had been in love once, had even been engaged. In fact, the wedding had been planned, the barn cleaned, and the celery was set to be harvested to make the traditional wedding soup. Just two weeks before the day she was to exchange vows with her beloved, he changed his mind, and that was that. The humiliation was almost as bad as the heartbreak. The whole community had celebrated her engagement, had participated in the wedding planning, had started...
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The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the princess” of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. Finally, their marriage...
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"When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chairand the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way-along with a new adversary who's even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty...
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