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When her daughter, Joy, interning at one of New York's hottest French restaurants, is accused of murdering the competition, coffehouse owner Claire Cosi must prove Joy's innocence, which lands her in hot water.

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,...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

"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...

"What are diner dogs? Diner dogs cook pancakes the most. They like to fetch...tea and french toast!"--Dust jacket.

Chef Blackstock rules his kitchen with an iron ladle and puts up with no slacking. The trouble is that his underpaid and overworked kitchen staff is littered with slackers.

Tuck in and prepare to double over in laughter with this hilarious and much loved comedy series from the BBC!