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Both humorous and heartbreaking, Blue Plate Special serves up an uplifting exploration of the courage it takes to embrace life after loss.
Thirty-three-year-old Julia Daniel doesn't really feel at home anywhere. Her life in L.A. is lonely, and her career as a food stylist for a struggling gourmet magazine falls well short of her desire to be a photographer. Although she liked growing up in Kentucky, ever since her mother's death and her father's...
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The lives of three troubled girls, of three different generations, intertwine: "Evocative . . . [The] protagonists are distinctive and sympathetic." -Publishers Weekly
An Eliot Rosewater Award Nominee
Shortlisted for a Cybil Award
Spanning from the late 1970s to 2009, this novel follows the stories of three young women raised by single mothers in upstate New York. Madeline eats compulsively and tries to be ultra-responsible as she copes...
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From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.
“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.” Her appetites run deep; in her own
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Agatha Award-winning author, Abigail Padget returns with Book No.2 of the Blue McCarron Mystery series.
When two prominent female politicians die in San Diego of cerebral hemorrhages within days of each other, social psychologist Blue McCarron knows that their deaths are a statistical impossibility-they simply cannot be from natural causes. Within hours, a female evangelist almost dies, and threats from a religious fanatic, illustrated with blue...
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Full of humorous stories about gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, and their women inhabiting New York's Broadway. A world of speakeasies and dancing girls where a gambler or bootlegger is perfectly normal and respectable in every way. Those familiar with "Guys and Dolls" know what to expect!
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A culinary celebration of the Midwest, with 150 recipes, as well as stories, literary references, and photography capturing the heart of American cooking.
Although much of the nation is only beginning to embrace the farm-to-table movement, residents of the Midwest have been living off the bounty of the land since the pioneer days. Judith Fertig's Heartland melds contemporary cooking with an authentic and appreciative approach to the land, presenting...
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The latest in the best-selling series, starts the day right with over 280 recipes for every kind of breakfast food imaginable. It s classic Maryana Vollstedt: every delicious dish is so easy to make you can hit the snooze button again and again. From classic blue-plate specials of Corned Beef Hash and Eggs to an innovative brunch of Spicy Orange Pancakes, here are frittatas and omelets, quiches and stratas, casseroles and skillet entrees, sandwiches...
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Hubcap Collection Plate is the collected poems of backwoods modernist Jeffrey Dunn. The collection is in six parts. "Cup of Joe" is a long poem of personal innocence and American experience. "The Belfast Bodhisattva" imagines Saint Patrick reborn as the Buddhist Belfast Patrick and traveling to Spokane, WA, U.S.A. "No Name Lake Coronach" is Dunn's deep geologic and human lament for his son's loss. "Bad Translations of Max Jacob" are just that. "When...
12) Quick Bang
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Norma Blaze is off limits to her brother's best friend, Stone Jenkins. But that doesn't stop him from eating at Norma's café every evening. The Blue Plate Special is good, but Stone craves more forbidden fruit and only has eyes for Norma. When a huge storm hits Summer Island, Stone checks up on Norma as the lights go out, and the two finally let their desires take over. Just as they think they've reached their happily ever after, someone crashes...
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ALMOST ENGAGED, ALMOST IN LOVE?
For years, waitress Joleen Wheeler had longed for Prince Charming to come in, order the blue-plate special and sweep her off her feet. So when a rich politician proposed, it seems as though her Cinderella dreams had come true. But Joleen wasn't in love...
THE BLACK-SHEEP BROTHER.
Then she met her almost-fiancé's brother, Jake Landon, who was everything his brother wasn't-rough around the edges, arrogant, the black...
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Immigrating from Europe, and many years of hardship, Betsy did not want the struggles her parents endured running a bakery in NYC. After their death, Betsy sold the bakery, eventually saving enough money to be trained in Paris before becoming an accomplished culinary and pastry chef. She soon discovered that life gets in the way, when you're making plans. Set in the 1940s, Betsy, tired of slinging Blue Plate specials at the Crosstown Diner, takes...
15) Murder Over Easy
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about a single mom, wits, grits, double shifts…and murder! A Trailer Park Mystery (#2). Kountry Kitchen Southern cooking recipes included! Wanda Nell Culpepper's juggling a lot of plates-two full-time jobs and riding hard on her rambunctious kids. But it looks like she's just landed a blue-plate special when one of her fellow waitresses winds up dead. Fayette's...
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All your favorite blue plate specials in one cookbook! Like its people, American food is a melting pot of tastes and textures. Now flavors from every corner of the country are brought together in one soul-satisfying cookbook. Worthy of any diner's daily special board, these recipes are the real deal: wholesome, filling favorites that will bring the entire family to the table. You'll be transported back to your grandmother's kitchen as you dig into...
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Men are purchasing more clothes, shoes, health and beauty products, and personal care services than ever before. The world of men's retail has remained a kind of bug in amber, frozen in time, with the same century-old style of merchandising and selling. A store must not simply provide, but educate the male customer, who is growing hungry for something more than the usual Blue Plate Special of khakis and polo shirts. To better attract this new wave...
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Elvis Presley Boulevard chronicles the trip we've all taken – or wanted to take – into the country that confounds its admirers and delights even its critics. Mark Winegardner, a young Ohioan, spent the formative summers of his wonder years touring the States with his family in a succession of recreational vehicles. Much later, only months before his wedding, he undertakes another transcontinental odyssey, this time without benefit of license plate...
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A waitress discovers an unknown illness infecting the food industry and attempts to spread awareness along with the cure.
If there were ever a time to recommend a special of the day, this book is the red, white, and blue-plate special Americans want to order. This diary reveals the cause, diagnosis, and remedy for "VIP Syndrome," a condition coined by the author as a food server's greatest occupational hazard. Learn the symptoms of VIP Syndrome,...
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Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes-would you like those baked, mashed, or au gratin? A nice anniversary dinner? Would you rather visit the Holiday Inn or the Regency Inn? In Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small town where professor's moonlight as farmers, farmers moonlight as football coaches, and everyone loves hockey, one woman has had the answers...