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Your table is ready : tales of a New York City maître d' / by Cecchi-Azzolina, Michael,author.;
"A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d'hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants. From the glamorous to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen--or just to gawk--at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor, during the decades when restaurants replaced clubs and theater as, well, theater in the most visible, vibrant city in the world. Besides dropping us back into a vanished time, Your Table Is Ready takes us places we'd never be able to get into on our own: Raoul's in Soho with its louche club vibe; Buzzy O'Keefe's casually elegant River Café (the only outer-borough establishment desirable enough to be included in this roster), from Keith McNally's Minetta Tavern to Nolita's Le Coucou, possibly the most beautiful room in New York City in 2018, with its French Country Auberge-meets-winery look and the most exquisite and enormous stands of flowers, changed every three days. From his early career serving theater stars like Tennessee Williams and Dustin Hoffman at La Rousse right through to the last pre-pandemic-shutdown full houses at Le Coucou, Cecchi-Azzolina has seen it all. In Your Table Is Ready, he breaks down how restaurants really run (and don't), and how the economics work for owners and overworked staff alike. The professionals who gravitate to the business are a special, tougher breed, practiced in dealing with the demanding patrons and with each other, in a very distinctive ecosystem that's somewhere between a George Orwell "down and out in ... " dungeon and a sleek showman's smoke-and-mirrors palace.Your Table Is Ready is a rollicking, raunchy, revelatory memoir"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Cecchi-Azzolina, Michael.; Restaurants; Restaurateurs;
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Roses / by Meacham, Leila,1938-;
"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Cities and towns; City and town life; Cotton trade; Lumber trade;
© 2009., Grand Central Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Anne of Greenville / by Tamaki, Mariko.; Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables.;
In this contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.Ages 14-18.Grades 10-12.LSC
Subjects: Lesbians; Racially mixed people; Adoption; City and town life; High schools; Schools; Bullying;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strangers at the gate / by McPherson, Catriona,1965-author.;
"From Catriona McPherson, Agatha Award-winning author of Quiet Neighbors, comes Strangers at the Gate: a twisty, fascinating mystery that asks the question: who do you turn to when everyone's a stranger and you've stopped believing your own eyes? Finnie Doyle and Paddy Lamb are leaving city life in Edinburgh behind them and moving to the little town of Simmerton. Paddy's been made partner at the law firm in town, and Finnie has snagged a job as a church deacon. Their rented cottage is quaint; their new colleagues are charming, and they can't believe their luck. But only days after moving into the gate house, Finnie begins to have doubts. She keeps hearing strange sounds, and the thicket of trees make her feel claustrophobic rather than safe. When they witness the bloody aftermath of a brutal murder, it changes everything. They've each been keeping secrets about their pasts. And they both know their precious new start won't survive a scandal. Together, for the best of reasons, they make the worst decision of their lives. And that's only the beginning. The deep, deep valley where Simmerton sits is unlike anywhere Finnie and Paddy have been before. They are not the only ones hiding in its shadow and very soon they've lost control of the game they decided to play."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); City and town life; Haunted places; Secrecy; Villages;
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Mortal engines [videorecording] / by George, Leila,actor.; Hilmar, Hera,actor.; Jihae,actor.; Rivers, Christian,film director.; Lang, Stephen,1952-actor.; Sheehan, Robert,1988-actor.; Weaving, Hugo,1960-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Robert Sheehan, Stephen Lang, Leila George.Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London, now a giant predator city on wheels, from devouring everything its path.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos ; Dolby digital Plus 7.1, 2.0 DVS ; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Dystopias; Outcasts; Cities and towns;
For private home use only.
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The marmalade murders / by Duncan, Elizabeth J.,author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Brannigan, Penny (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; City and town life; Murder;
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13 stories about Harris / by Schwartz, Amy.;
Thirteen vignettes reveal the everyday life of Harris, who makes butter with his mother, attends the birthday party of his best friend, Ayana, and begins preschool in their city neighborhood.LSC
Subjects: Best friends; Friendship; Neighborhoods; City and town life;
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Silver nitrate / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.;
"A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Bisexuals; Blessing and cursing; Cursed objects; Motion picture industry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Silver nitrate [text (large print)] / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.;
"A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Bisexuals; Blessing and cursing; Cursed objects; Motion picture industry;
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The big door prize : a novel / by Walsh, M. O.(Milton O'Neal),author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Fortune-telling; DNA; Life change events; City and town life; Interpersonal relations;
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