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Zoe Washington stories volume 2
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English
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Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
2) Tantalize
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Tantalize series volume 1
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When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
3) Blessed
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Tantalize series volume 3
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English
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Even as teenaged Quincie Morris adjusts to her appetites as a neophyte vampire, she must clear her true love, the hybrid-werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the vampire-chef who "blessed" her; and keep her dead parents' restaurant up and running before she loses her own soul.
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Fly Guy volume 12
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When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.
5) Crash
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Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Jules, whose family owns an Italian restaurant and has a history of mental illness, starts seeing a recurring vision about a rival restaurant, a truck crash, and forbidden love.
6) Out to lunch
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A mischievous frog makes a scene when his parents take him to a fancy restaurant to eat.
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Joey Pigza books volume 4
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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.
8) Cold case
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When thirteen-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being a spy.
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"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 Kit takes her brother's place, clobbers the Green Knight,...
10) Lucky for good
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
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Pete and Penny's pizza puzzles volume 1
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English
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When Pete and Penny's parents leave them with their uncle in charge of the family pizza parlor, they must solve a mystery after their secret sauce recipe is lost.
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Max Spaniel volume 2
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English
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Max Spaniel is chef at his own diner, where he serves up a variety of tasty meals.
16) No dogs allowed!
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When Alberto opens his new restaurant, he welcomes only patrons without animals, and he has to continually send people and their pets away, losing business, until he and a young dog owner come up with an idea.
17) Stars so sweet
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"Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family"--
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Ten-year-old Pierre dreams of being a chef at his parents' restaurant, La Bonne Vache, in the south of France and is told he is too young, but when an important guest comes Pierre sees a chance to prove himself. Includes notes about dining in France and a glossary.
19) A soup opera
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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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Madame Pamplemousse volume 1
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English
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Forced to work in her unpleasant uncle's horrible restaurant, a Parisian girl finds comfort and companionship in a shop nearby that sells otherworldly foods prepared by a mysterious cook and her cat.