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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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On the line / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
When up-and-coming chef Mateo Castillo collapses, he and his family undergo genetic testing, but the answers the testing reveals leaves Mateo asking more questions.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Recipes.; Novels.; Colombian Americans; Cooks; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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City of ashes / by Clare, Cassandra.;
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
Subjects: Demonology; Supernatural; Magic; Horror tales.; New York (NY);
© 2009, c2008., Simon Pulse,
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Broad City. [videorecording] / by Glazer, Ilana,actor.; Jacobson, Abbi,actor.; Poehler, Amy,1971-television producer.; Comedy Central Films,publisher.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson.Follow the adventures of two best friends working the big city. No matter how bad it gets, these broads are always down with whatever hits them.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Best friends; Adventure and adventurers;
For private home use only.
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Saving Simon : how a rescue donkey taught me the meaning of compassion / by Katz, Jon.;
Subjects: Katz, Jon.; Animal rescue; Compassion.; Donkeys;
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Begin again [videorecording] / by Carney, John,1972-; Corden, James,actor.; Knightley, Keira,1985-; Ruffalo, Mark,actor.; Steinfeld, Hailee,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Weinstein Company.;
Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, James Corden, Catherine Keener.British songwriter Gretta is adrift in Manhattan after getting dumped by her philandering rock star boyfriend. While playing at an open mic night at a local bar, she is discovered by struggling music producer Dan. Sensing her songwriting potential, Dan pushes Gretta to sign with him and record an ambitious outdoors album all across the city.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; Anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Lyricists; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Sound recording executives and producers; Women singers;
© 2014., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York's City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation / by Ricca, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Humiston, Grace (Mary Grace), 1869-1948.; Missing persons; Women lawyers; Women private investigators;
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Murder in Murray Hill : a Gaslight Mystery / by Thompson, Victoria(Victoria E.),author.;
"Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, he's assigned to a new case--finding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston. It seems the girl had been responding to "lonely hearts" ads in the paper for months before she disappeared. Her father thinks that she's eloped with a deceptive stranger, but Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims. But as Sarah and Malloy delve deeper into a twisted plot targeting the city's single women, it's their partnership--both professional and private--that winds up in the greatest peril ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character); Malloy, Frank (Fictitious character); Women detectives;
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Cemetery dance / by Preston, Douglas J.; Child, Lincoln.;
Subjects: Occult fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Government investigators; Murder; Obeah (Cult); Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character);
© 2009., Grand Central Pub.,
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No one left to come looking for you : a novel / by Lipsyte, Sam,1968-author.;
In Manhattan's East Village in 1993, a young New Jersey rock musician searches for his bandmate who made off with his prized bass to feed his drug habit and encounters a colorful cast of characters as he uncovers a series of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake NYC.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Rock musicians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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