Author: Michele Gorman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728915630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Get Book Here
Book Description
Meet Emma, who believes in second chances, and Lou, who badly needs one... New mom, Emma, knows that the teenagers in her neighborhood don't get many breaks in life. So when she decides to open her café on the square, she hires the kids who most need the skills to get jobs in the future. It could be Lou's only chance to get the experience she needs to prove that she's worth more than nearly everyone in her life thinks she is. Yet she's guarded and aloof, and Emma worries about what she's hiding. As the café fills with freelancing hipsters, grumpy teens, new moms and ancient neighborhood residents, Emma realizes that they are all misfits in their own ways, looking for a place to fit in. And they're not the only ones getting a second chance. She is too. The stark differences between the customers start to cause tensions, but when it becomes clear that someone is trying to close down the café, they must all work together, or they'll lose the community that means the world to them. It's a heartfelt, uplifting story about the importance of community, the real value of friendship and all the ways in which seemingly ordinary people can become extraordinary. If you love the romance, friendship and laugh out loud situations in Debbie Macomber, Elin Hilderbrand and Susan Mallery books, then you're in for a treat with this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by bestselling romance author Lilly Bartlett! It's packed with feel-good friendship and loads of fun. What everyone's saying about The Reinvention Cafe and the author "The perfect blend of sweetness and substance, with plenty of laughs along the way." Debbie Johnson, winner of the RNA's Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year 2017 "So engaging and witty, yet insightful and empathetic." Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "Incredibly well written and highly enjoyable to read. 5*" Rachel's Random Reads "A fun, sassy writer who always makes me smile." Carole Matthews, Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller "It is a story with a beautiful message to share - sometimes people just need a helping hand." Whispering Stories "Full of fun...I loved it" Cathy Bramley, shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year 2017 and Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling author "My favorite to date... with fresh characters and a story that was both touching and real." Mrs Mommy Booknerd "I found myself saying, "yep, I know that feeling" every couple of pages." Lilac Mills" A funny, feel-good romcom... the perfect read to curl up with." The Sun's FABULOUS magazine "The characters are genuine, funny, and appealing. The prose is polished, clear, and smooth. 9/10" What's Better than Books "Fresh, funny and brilliant - we gobbled it up!" HEAT Magazine "A smashing summer read. The prose is sassy, witty and appeals directly to the reader." Linda's Book blog "This is a delightful book of friendship, acceptance, and belonging for anyone who has ever wondered: "What if?"" Publishers Weekly "Delightful and entertaining radiating warmth and hopefulness." Kraftireader "An engaging read that makes you smile with each page turned." My Weekly "A heartwarming story of friendship, determination, and family life, all wrapped up in a place that you would love to call home." Books of All Kinds "An undeniable sense of fun on every page" Nick Spalding, Amazon's #1 biggest-selling self-published author in 2012 and now one of Amazon's (Lake Union) biggest-selling authors "This book is generous, heartwarming, community spirited and restores your faith in humans." Cosy Books "[An] entertaining read." S Mag, Sunday Express
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718000900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Get Book Here
Book Description
What if you could ask God anything? What would you ask, and how would He answer? Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention. But when her courage, expert planning, and out-of-this-world cupcakes fail to pay the bills, this newly single mom finds herself desperate for help. Better yet, a miracle. Then a curious stranger lands on Chelsea’s doorstep, and with him, an even more curious string of events. Soon, customers are flocking to the Higher Grounds Café, and not just for the cupcakes and cappuccino. They’ve come for the internet connection to the divine. Now the café has become the go-to place for people in search of answers to life’s biggest questions. When a catastrophe strikes and her ex comes calling, Chelsea begins to wonder if the whole universe is conspiring against her quest to make it on her own. After a shocking discovery opens her eyes to the unseen world around her, Chelsea finds the courage to ask God a question of her own—and heaven answers in a most unexpected way. “Max Lucado’s remarkable gift of storytelling brings the pages to life in his novel Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café. This highly relatable story of working through heartache and standing firm on your faith is intertwined with a good dose of humor and overflowing with biblical truth. This message will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page.” —Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Yes and It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way “Step inside the Higher Grounds Café, a place brimming with whop, a heaping helping of comfort food, and a direct line to heaven. Where faith lives, all things are possible, for a family, a community, and one woman who wasn’t sure she had the courage to believe again.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours “Now, here is the in-depth breakdown on why YOU will love it: First of all, Max Lucado is the best. Of course, angels, miracles and neighborhood cafés are also at the top of the list. Most of us love stories and according to statistics, 54% of us actually love coffee. So, there! Read Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café immediately. It’s a story by Max Lucado about an angel and the miracle performed for some folks (who drink coffee) in a cool neighborhood café. Can a book even get any better than this? I don’t think so.” —Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift Full-length inspirational novel USA TODAY bestseller Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author: Charlotte Ashby
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857457659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Get Book Here
Book Description
The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Author: Fariha Róisín
Publisher: Unnamed Press
ISBN: 9781951213442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
A revolutionary story of empowerment and redemption, Like a Bird is the highly anticipated debut novel from Fariha Róisín, author of the poetry collection How to Cure A Ghost One of Vogue and Refinery29's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall Taylia Chatterjee has never known love, and certainly has never felt it for herself. Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with her older sister Alyssa, their parents were both overbearing and emotionally distant, and despite idyllic summers in the Catskills, and gatherings with glamorous family friends, there is a sadness that emanates from the Chatterjee residence, a deep well of sorrow stemming from the racism of American society. After a violent sexual assault, Taylia is disowned by her parents and suddenly forced to move out. As Taylia looks to the city, the ghost of her Indian grandmother dadi-ma is always one step ahead, while another more troubling ghost chases after her. Determined to have the courage to confront the pain that her family can't face, Taylia finds work at a neighborhood café owned by single mother and spiritualist, Kat. Taylia quickly builds a constellation of friends and lovers on her own, daring herself to be open to new experiences, even as they call into question what she thought she knew about the past. Taylia's story is about survival, coming to terms with her past and looking forward to a future she never felt she was allowed to claim. Writing this for eighteen years, poet and activist Fariha Róisín's debut novel is an intense, provocative, and emotionally profound portrait of an inner life in turmoil and the redemptive power of community and love.
Author: Lin Zhang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551290
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Get Book Here
Book Description
From start-up founders in the Chinese equivalent of Silicon Valley to rural villages experiencing an e-commerce boom to middle-class women reselling luxury goods, the rise of internet-based entrepreneurship has affected every part of China. For many, reinventing oneself as an entrepreneur has appeared to be an appealing way to adapt to a changing economy and society. Yet in practice, digital entrepreneurship has also reinforced traditional Chinese ideas about state power, labor, gender, and identity. Lin Zhang explores how the everyday labor of entrepreneurial reinvention is remaking China amid changing geopolitical currents. She tells the stories of people from diverse class, gender, and age backgrounds across rural, urban, and transnational settings in rich detail, providing a multifaceted and ground-level view of the twenty-first-century Chinese economy. Zhang explores the surge in digital entrepreneurialism against the backdrop of global financial crises, the U.S.-China trade war, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She argues that the rise of internet-based industries and practices has simultaneously empowered and exploited digital entrepreneurs and laborers. Despite embracing high-tech innovation, state-led entrepreneurialization does not represent a radical break with the past. It has provided a means for implementing developmental goals while retaining the importance of the traditional family and generating new inequalities. Shedding new light on global capitalism and the digital economy by centering a non-Western perspective, The Labor of Reinvention vividly conveys how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China.
Author: Dr Torill Nyseth
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409488276
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Get Book Here
Book Description
Through an interdisciplinary range of case studies from across the Northern rim of Europe, this volume shows how place reinvention as a concept affects not only global cities but also marginal regions. Linking place reinvention to the economic, the symbolic and the political production of space, the volume puts forward insights into how 'marginal areas' understand their role in the global competition between places and regions through their branding strategies, playing with representations of the unique and the ordinary, urban and rural, reindustrialization and cultural economy. It also shows how and why some places seem to retain and strengthen their uniqueness, whilst others are losing their local distinctiveness in the struggle to survive.
Author: Carlyn Berghoff
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740790692
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Get Book Here
Book Description
Recreate customer favorite dishes from the popular Chicago eatery wherever you are with this collection of delicious recipes. Family is everything, and so is food when it comes to the Berghoff family. The Berghoff Cafe food and drink, originated by Herman Berghoff more than 110 years ago, is the foundation of Berghoff tradition carried on today by great-granddaughter Carlyn Berghoff. Cafe fare is simple and satisfying, nothing fancy, and not at all fussy. You can still enjoy this same kind of food today at Chicago's Berghoff Cafe, either downstairs on Adams Street or at O’Hare International Airport. The cafe food is built upon three principles that work in the restaurant as well as at home: reuse, recycle, and reinvent. The Berghoffs reuse their basics and waste nothing, so potatoes become Mashed Potatoes, Lyonnaise Potatoes, hash browns, Potato Salad, oven-roasted potatoes, potato pancakes, Potato Soup, french fries, and Smoked Sausage and Potato Pizza. They also recycle perfectly wholesome cooked foods so Herb-Roasted Turkey Breast stars in the Turkey Reuben, but there's also enough left for the Turkey Okra and Rice Soup and more. The eighty recipes plus variations in The Berghoff Cafe Cookbook represent the full range of Berghoff Cafe food. There are recipes from Great-grandfather Herman’s cafe, updated for today's cook so they require less time and have fewer calories, alongside selections from today's cafe menu and customers' very favorite soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, and desserts. The recipes you'll find in this book are easy to prepare, look great on the plate, and are a pleasure to eat. “Visitors to the Windy City almost inevitably flock for lunch or dinner to the Chicago Loop’s century-old Berghoff Café. Its warm, bustling, clubby atmosphere evokes nostalgia for bygone days of hearty eating and noisy drinking in the best German-American tradition . . . . Cooks who want to reproduce their Berghoff favorites will find complete instructions here for doing so, even to baking their own pretzels or rye bread, part of whose secret turns out to be dill seed instead of more common caraway.” —Booklist
Author: Christoph Grafe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134228171
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Get Book Here
Book Description
The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America. This volume presents and examines this significant urban architectural production, and discusses it against a background of the design of cafes and bars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and illustrated with case studies, from the functionalist pre-World War Two architects in Central Europe representing modern society through the design of public spaces, right up to the design of sophisticated bars and cafes as part of the recent urban renaissance of Barcelona and Paris in 1980s and London in the '90s.
Author: Doug Nufer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970321237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Get Book Here
Book Description
Fiction. Possibly the Northwest's first, full-fledged mock biography of a fictional CEO who created a coffee empire and sipped the soul out of a city. Authored by a twice removed hand, or, the truth laid bare through a series of fictions.
Author: Sarah Bakewell
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590514890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Get Book Here
Book Description
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!" It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anti-colonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters--fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships--and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.
