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by Monica Ali
Gabriel Lightfoot has a lot on his plate. As executive chef at London's luxurious Imperial Hotel, he must contend with demanding customers, a bully of a general manager, and a kitchen staff that runs the gamut from bellicose to perverse.
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by Dana Bate
Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for an academic career just like her parents. The only problem is that Hannah doesn't want any of it. What she wants is much simpler; to cook.
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by Erica Bauermeister
Restaurant owner Lillian manages an unexpected challenge while sharing her days with a circle of friends and regulars, including ritual-performing accountant Al, heartbroken chef Chloe, and unobtrusive giant Finnegan.
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by Elizabeth Berg
A baking class instructor, her haunted assistant and a youth reeling from a family tragedy discover the power of community while navigating complicated choices and uncertain futures.
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by Jenna Blum
The devastation wrought by the Holocaust haunts a chef and his second family. This novel is all about the occasionally dire consequences of seemingly innocuous choices. It has three sections, told successively from the third-person vantage point of New York chef Peter, his supermodel wife, June, and their teenage daughter, Elsbeth.
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by Stephanie Danler
A year in the life of a beguiling young woman in the wild world of a famous downtown New York restaurant follows her burning effort to become someone of importance through a backwaiter job that enables her indulgences in culinary and intellectual interests.
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by Matias Faldbakken
In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. There is scarcely any contact between the tables-- until a beautiful and well-groomed young woman walks through the door and upsets the delicate balance of the restaurant and all it has come to represent.
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by Maylis de Kerangal
The story follows Mauro and his love of cooking from childhood (baking cakes in elementary school) and young adulthood (weaning his friends off fast food with homemade meals) to pursuing a culinary career in his native France.
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by Lillian Li
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.
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by Sarah McCoy
After an interview with an elderly baker leaves her feeling like she is the one who revealed too much — especially about her Border Patrol husband, Riki — El Paso journalist Reba Adams, as well as her interview subject, must confront the ghosts of their past.
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by Louise Miller
Unexpectedly inheriting property from a beloved community baker, two headstrong sisters navigate growing hostilities about whether or not to sell, before the disappearance of the baker's dog forces everyone to work together.
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by Barbara O'Neal
Delighted to be offered her dream job of executive chef at an upscale Aspen restaurant, Elena Alvarez knows that this will be opportunity of a lifetime, and through the delicious food she creates, the friendships she forms, and the trust she learns to place in others, she finds the strength to confront the pain of her past and find healing in body and soul.
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by Jessica Soffer
Young, troubled Lorca lives in New York City; her distracted mother, a chef, is rather uninterested in Lorca's psychological troubles; her estranged father lives in New Hampshire. Researching how to prepare an unusual meal, Lorca feels she can win her mother's interest and love if she can prepare this delicacy.
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by Mary Ellen Taylor
Unemployed and single, Daisy McCrae resigns herself to learning the failing family business until a 150-year-old journal written by a slave girl named Susie compels her to research the past of the town and her own family.
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by Merritt Tierce
Single mother Marie hides her private struggles behind her professionalism as a waitress at an upscale Dallas steak house before succumbing to self-destructive habits.
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by Meg Tilly
Maggie Harris joins her sister on Solace Island, where she hopes to recover from a stunning betrayal. At first, Maggie resists Eve's impassioned argument about relocating permanently so the sisters can open their own local bakery.
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by Hannah Tunnicliffe
Grace Miller finds herself a stranger in a foreign land -- a lone redhead towering above the crowd on the busy Chinese streets. As she is forced to confront the devastating news of her infertility, Grace's marriage is fraying and her dreams of family have been shattered. She resolves to do something bold, something her impetuous mother would do, and she turns to what she loves: baking and the pleasure of afternoon tea.
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by Susan Wiggs
With a little determination and a lot of charm, Rosa Capoletti took a run-down pizza joint and turned it into an award-winning restaurant that has been voted "best place to propose" three years in a row. For Rosa, though, there has been no real romance since her love affair with Alexander Montgomery ended without explanation a decade ago. But guess who's just come back to town?
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by Michelle Wildgen
A mouthwatering novel about three brothers who run competing restaurants, and the culinary snobbery, staff stealing, and secret affairs that unfold in the back of the house.
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by Simon Wroe
Monocle, is eager and determined to live the literary life in London. But soon he's two months behind on rent and is forced to take a job doing grunt work in the kitchen of The Swan, a restaurant that's seen much better days.
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