{"id":139313,"date":"2016-11-04T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=139313"},"modified":"2016-11-03T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:14:39","slug":"patron-recommendation-heartbreak-cafe-penelope-j-stokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=139313","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: Heartbreak Cafe &#8211; Penelope J. Stokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-139314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heartbreak-Cafe-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"heartbreak-cafe\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heartbreak-Cafe-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heartbreak-Cafe.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>Our patron called this &#8220;the best, funniest book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About the book:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dell Haley&#8217;s mama always told her there were two things a man couldn&#8217;t get enough of: good cookin&#8217; and good lovin&#8217;. Dell has the cooking down pat &#8212; the proof is in her fried apple pies. But she suspects her husband is getting more than his fair share of loving &#8212; she just doesn&#8217;t know where. And when he turns up dead, Dell&#8217;s predictable life begins to crumble. Short on money and education, Dell turns to the one thing that has never let her down: her cooking. Risking everything, she opens a restaurant in a derelict diner. Soon, to Dell&#8217;s surprise, it becomes the eating and meeting place for a group of people who become the most unlikely of friends. But even as a community forms around the cafe, Dell wonders who in this small town she can trust to help her find the truth behind her heartbreak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Heartbreak Cafe<\/em> is available from our library in <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2748375?locg=1\">large print<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our patron called this &#8220;the best, funniest book.&#8221; About the book: &#8220;Dell Haley&#8217;s mama always told her there were two things a man couldn&#8217;t get enough of: good cookin&#8217; and good lovin&#8217;. Dell has the cooking down pat &#8212; the proof is in her fried apple pies. But she suspects her husband is getting more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":139314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heartbreak-Cafe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-AeZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139315,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139313\/revisions\/139315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}