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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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English
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"One chance at forever Ben Baldwin likes his women sexy, wild, and as uninhibited as his desires. Nothing like brash, dirt-covered, wholesomely cute woman who just strutted into his diner. But something about Sierra Murphy's independent attitude makes Ben's fantasies run wild...Sierra doesn't need a man in her life, not even one as tempting as Ben. But the more she keeps her distance, the more he wants her, and the harder it is for Sierra to steer...
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Marygene Brown novels volume 1
Language
English
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Life has always been sweet on Georgia's Peach Cove Island, but a case of murder has Marygene Brown down in the pits...
For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved Peach Diner. Since their mother's passing two years ago, Marygene has been stuck in Atlanta while her sister Jena Lynn has been running the family business. Now Marygene has left...
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Joey Pigza books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Rhyming tale of five boys and their father who forget about their chores on the farm to enjoy Minnie's good cooking, each requesting double what the previous one ordered.
8) Bittersweet
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Hudson Avery gave up a promising competetive 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.
9) Salem Falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Jack St. Bride was a popular teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school when he was falsely accused of statutory rape. Released after eight months behind bars, he arrives in Salem Falls hoping to start fresh. He lands a job washing dishes at the local diner and even falls in love with the owner, Addie. But then a spoiled local girl accuses Jack of assault, forcing his past into the open and turning the town against him.
10) Forged in love
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Wyoming Sunrise volume 1
Language
English
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"After surviving a brutal stagecoach robbery, Mariah Stover attempts to rebuild her life as she takes over her father's blacksmith business, but the townspeople meet her work with disdain. She is drawn to the new diner owner as he faces similar trials in the town. When danger descends upon them, will they survive to build a life forged in love?" --
1870. Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she's...
11) Prophet
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Language
English
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"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
12) Brass: a novel
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Language
English
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A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams--and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling factory town drew one wave of immigrants after another. Now it's the place they can't seem to leave. Elsie, herself...
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English
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"When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Alaska to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After a breakup, a chance to reconnect with her roots may be what she needs. Determined to bring fresh life to the diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu. But her plans are fried when her head cook turns up dead after a bitter and public fight over Charlie's ideas - leaving...
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English
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"From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...
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Series
Max Spaniel volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Max Spaniel is chef at his own diner, where he serves up a variety of tasty meals.
17) Two eggs please
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.
18) Custard Surprise
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two chickens, Dinah and Rufus, find that running a diner is harder than they expected when every customer wants something that is not on the menu, until finally someone comes in for whom the Custard Surprise is just right.