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Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
Language
English
Description
Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
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Series
Three kings volume 1
Language
English
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Pro-football defensive end, TW, is a stepping stone to marriage. All his exes find their life partners after they're done dating him and most of those life partners are friends of TW's so he often gets to be Best Man at his ex-girlfriends' weddings. Abby, a bartender who's known as "one of the guys", isn't much for romance or commitment since she has eyes for one man only and he doesn't even remember who she is, not even when he gets drunk at her...
3) Yerba Buena
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other. When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that...
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Milagro Street romances volume 1
Language
English
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"Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The 'poor handsome man.' Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra 'Alex' Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration; she won't let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex...
5) Nick's trip
Author
Series
Nick Stefanos mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An old high-school friend drags Nick Stefanos into a complex and deadly conspiracy involving drugs, theft, intrigue, and murder.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?
Author
Series
Nick Stefanos mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick of himself twelve years ago: an angry punk hooked on speed metal and the fast life. So when the boy's grandfather begs Nick to find...
Author
Series
Nick Stefanos mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In his third appearance in George Pelecanos's acclaimed series, Nick Stefanos has been spending too much time with bad women and bad booze. Which is why he wakes up one blurry morning on the banks of the Anacostia River, hungover and miserable--and now a witness to a murder. With the help of a partner as straight-arrow as Nick is bent, Nick decides to track down the killer; their investigation leads them through the roughest part of the nation's...
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Suspended from her job at a Florida VFW after being set up for the murder of Korean war veteran Jack Hoffman, Maggie has no intention of letting herself be framed. And since the police have yet to arrest anybody for the last major crime in town-the murder of Maggie's husband-she's sure they won't try too hard this time, either. So Maggie must produce enough evidence to clear her name, get her job back, and find the killer before she ends up behind...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
11) Taking it easy
Author
Series
Boys of the big easy volume 2
Publisher
[En Fiction, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Logan Trahan is one of the French Quarter's hottest bartenders. A sexy southern boy whose needs are simple: make a living running his family bar, make sure everyone who walks through the doors has a great time--especially the single female tourists--and not take anything too seriously. And then Dana Doucet catches his attention. Dana is a widowed mom of two who's doing it all. And doing it well, thank you very much. But even a super-mom isn't fully...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Delaney Nichols has settled so comfortably into her new life in Edinburgh that she truly feels it's become more home than her once beloved Kansas. Her job at the Cracked Spine, a bookshop that specializes in rare manuscripts as well as other sundry valuable historical objects, is everything she had dreamed, with her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, entrusting her more and more with bigger jobs. Her latest task includes a trip to Castle Doune, a castle...
Author
Publisher
7.13 Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In late '90s San Francisco, Edie Wunderlich was the It girl, on the covers of the city's alt-weeklies, repping the freak party scene on the eve of the first dot-com boom. Fast-forward twenty years, and Edie hasn't changed, but San Francisco has. Still a bartender in the Mission, Edie now serves a seemingly never-ending stream of tech bros while the punk rock parties of the millennium's end are long gone. When her mother dies, leaving her Silicon Valley...
14) Judgment Road
Author
Series
Torpedo ink volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the enforcer of the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club, Reaper lives for riding and fighting. He's a stone-cold killer who turns his wrath on those who deserve it. Feelings are a weakness he can't afford--until a gorgeous bartender gets under his skin ... Near Sea Haven, the small town of Caspar has given Anya Rafferty a new lease on life. And she's desperate to hold on to her job at the biker bar, even if the scariest member of the club seems to have...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses...
16) You know her
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring all the men in the department snapping about a diversity...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
If there's anything worse than being fired from the worst restaurant in town, it's coming home early to find your boyfriend in bed with someone else. Reeling from the humiliation of a double dumping in one day, Georgina takes the next job that comes her way-bartender in a newly opened pub. There's only one problem: it's run by the guy she fell in love with years ago. And-make that two problems-he doesn't remember her. At all. But she has fabulous...
18) Game for five
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort near Livorno, between shots of espresso and hands of cards, four old-timers and Massimo, the barman, wile away the time chatting, arguing, and theorizing about the murder of a young woman in their town. The girl's body was found in a dumpster bin on the edge of town. The victim's now notoriously licentious lifestyle has everyone thinking that her death had something to do with the world of drug trafficking...
19) Yerba Buena
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Sara Foster se escapa de casa con dieciséis años, deja atrás a la niña que un día fue, capaz de desarrollar vínculos de confianza e intimidad. Años después, ya establecida en Los Ángeles, se ha convertido en una codiciada barman, conocida tanto por sus brillantes cócteles como por el misterio que le rodea. Al otro lado de la ciudad, Emilie Dubois está estancada, anhelando la belleza y la comunidad que sus abuelos criollos cultivaron,...
20) King of pride
Author
Series
Kings of sin volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos--and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the billionaire heir can't afford the distraction she brings. Isabella is everything he shouldn't want, but with every look and every touch, he's tempted to break all his rules...and claim her as his own"--...
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