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1) Magic
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English
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A tale set against the glamorous White Dinners in Paris traces the experiences of longtime participant Jean-Philippe Dumas, who at the sides of three couples reflects on friendship, love, and magical possibilities on a life-changing night.
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English
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"Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at their Kamogawa Diner down a quiet street in Kyoto. They can help recreate meals from their customers' most treasured memories. Through ingenious investigations, these "food detectives" untangle flavors and pore through old shopping lists to remake unique dishes from the past. From the swimmer who misses his father's lunchbox to the model who longs for fried rice...
3) At our table
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
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"Gratitude, togetherness, and tradition are shared and celebrated at the dining tables of a diverse range of families and communities"-- Provided by publisher.
"A fresh and inclusive portrayal of Thanksgiving that celebrates sharing, community, family, food, and respect for America's first inhabitants. Here is a lyrical, vibrant tribute to the diversity of America coming together as one rich tapestry of gratitude, elegantly penned by debut author...
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Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Four couples gather at a dinner party. Some are ex-lovers, some are old friends, and two have a secret that threatens to undo all of their carefully crafted illusions before dessert is served in this thrilling suspense debut. Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. But one of them arrived, and one of them didn't. Willa's sister's disapperance has defined Willa's life. Everyone thinks her...
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
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"Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as 'food detectives,' offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouthwatering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they harness the power of taste to rekindle forgotten memories. From the yakisoba holding the memories of precious first love to the dumplings shared between...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the president of the restaurant owners association dies during a group dinner, everyone at the meal is a suspect, and cousins Yale and Celine Yee stir the pot as they investigate the dinner attendees to keep their friends and family out of hot water.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden. As Celia Cohen, the eminent literary critic,...
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother's recipes she had given to Joan when she and John married. In June 2012, Lauren Mabrey discovers she's pregnant. Gloria, Miriam, and the rest of her friends at Glory's Place begin...
10) Our table
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Night Library on the outskirts of Tokyo isn't your ordinary library. It's only open from seven o'clock to midnight. It exclusively stores books by deceased authors, and none of them can be checked out -- instead, they're put on public display to be revered and celebrated by the library's visitors, akin to a book museum. Otoha Higuchi, the newest employee, has been recruited to work at the library by the mysterious anonymous owner. There, Otoha...
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
After Lady Abigail Worthing and her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, get snowed in at a dinner party held at the home of Lord Charles Duncan, one of London's most powerful magistrates, an evening of dinner and debates turns deadly.
14) The dinner list
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English
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"We've been waiting for an hour." That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed." At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen?...
15) Snack, Please!
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gertie LOVES snacks! All kinds of snacks: sofa snacks, bath snacks, bedtime snacks . . . Isn't everything better with a snack? But the delicious meals Daddy is making for her are going uneaten, and snacks are all that Gertie can talk about. Could a day in Grandma's community garden plot be just the thing to help Gertie see everything she's missing--and find the inspiration she's looking for?" --Amazon
16) Hungry Johnny
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"I like to eat, eat, eat," choruses young Johnny as he watches Grandma at work in the kitchen. Wild rice, fried potatoes, fruit salad, frosted sweet rolls -- what a feast! Johnny can hardly contain his excitement. In no time, he'll be digging in with everyone else, filling his belly with all this good food. But wait. First there is the long drive to the community center. And then an even longer Ojibwe prayer. And then -- well, young boys know to follow...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
18) Beef stew
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
1990
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up.
20) Let's eat!
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bilingual text describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

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