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1) Sacrificio
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"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
3) Servers
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""Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces servers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
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Millions of people have, at some point in their lives, waited tables. Some only did it in college, or got out by sheer determination, good luck ... or suicide. Others took it on as permanent employment. And many remain haunted by nightmare scenarios where they are the sole server in a restaurant packed with complaining patrons. For all those disenchanted current and former food service employees, Darron Cardosa has your back. His career began at a...
6) Servers
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"Who brings us food at restaurants? Servers! In a busy restaurant, servers keep everything moving from bringing food to helping guests. Read all about these community helpers"--
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Let's Eat! Youth Books about Food
New Nonfiction at Blackhawk Middle School
Picture Book Biographies for All Ages (SCPL-YS)
New Nonfiction at Blackhawk Middle School
Picture Book Biographies for All Ages (SCPL-YS)
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"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapen̄o pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--
8) Albert Nobbs
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A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
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Real love was all they ever wanted. A man who would protect and not hurt them. Someone loyal who would always put them first. In Giannis and Rio, cousins Dakota and Breelyn have found that and so much more. The ladies have discovered that not all men are the same, and that when you least expect it, the love of the right one can resuscitate a deceased heart, giving it new life. Sadly, just as their lives seem to be moving in the right direction, tragedy...
10) Q & A: a novel
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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to...
11) Love hacked
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Knitting in the city volume 3
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Of Sandra Fielding's last 30 dates, 29 have ended with the man sobbing uncontrollably. She has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Near desperate, Sandra gives in to an encounter with a hot waiter, Alex. Now, after spending her life helping others change for the better, she is falling for a man that refuses to change at all.
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Italian tycoon Vito Zaffari is waiting out the festive season while a family scandal fades from the press. So he's come to his friend's snow-covered English country cottage, determined to shut out the world. Until a beautiful bombshell dressed as Santa literally crashes into his Christmas! Innocent Holly Cleaver sneaks under Vito's defenses�he wants her like no other before and decides he must have her. When Vito finds her gone the next day, he's...
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"An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light"--
"An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's...
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"Tommy Dees is in the weeds--restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He's been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And to make his application shine, he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. But in exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions--including training the new hire. What he doesn't expect...
15) The gossip file
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Dirt diary volume 3
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Rachel Lee has looked forward to relaxing for two weeks at a Florida resort with her father, but when his girlfriend asks her to help in a cafe, Rachel adopts a "cool" new persona, Ava, to fit in with her older co-workers, until they ask her to help with their Gossip File.
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Basil Fawlty is an inept and manic English hotel owner and manager who isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. Chaos frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel. He is constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel, the Spanish waiter. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various...
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"In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. [This novel] tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure"--Amazon.com.
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Numerous industry surveys show that wait-staff service is often the primary factor in a customer's decision to return to the restaurant or go to a competitor instead. This newly revised and updated training handbook was designed for all food service serving staff members. It covers every aspect of restaurant customer service from hosts and head waiters to waitresses and wine stewards.
20) Hijo de la nieve
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El banquero italiano Vito Zaffari se había alejado de Florencia durante las Navidades, esperando que la prensa se olvidase de un escándalo que podría hundir su reputación. Para ello, había ido a una casita en medio del nevado campo inglés, decidido a alejarse del mundo durante unos días. Hasta que un bombón vestido de Santa Claus irrumpió estrepitosamente allí. La inocente Holly Cleaver provocó una inmediata reacción en el serio banquero...
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