butchers

"When Martin wants a video game for Christmas that his family cannot afford, he takes a job as a butcher's assistant and with the help of his imaginary friend investigates why the fish place across the street is booming"--OCLC.

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.

Charlie, a man who has a problem with commitment, invents excuses to break up with his girlfriends--one's a kleptomaniac, another must belong to the mob--and works them into his poems which he recites at a San Francisco coffeehouse. But then Charlie meets Harriet, a butcher at Meats of the World who may be his soulmate. There's a little problem, though, since Charlie is convinced Harriet is the unknown Mrs. X, a tabloid favorite who marries and murders her husbands.

Chinese immigrant Jack Moon Szeto struggles between the woman he loves and the law that forces him into a pre-arranged marriage.

In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases--one with his worldly possessions and the other full of money--but after he inserts himself into the town's daily life and takes a job in the local butcher shop, a budding passion between the man and the wife of the town's weathiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset the quiet town but threaten to destroy both him and the woman.

In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases; one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the town's daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the town's wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset the quiet town but threaten to destroy both him and the woman.

Two adventures--one involving a hungry mouse, the other a magic plant--in the life of an unusual old lady butcher.

Louis, a butcher who hates meat, finally finds happiness when he turns into a fish.

An unhappy butcher from Flatbush finally achieves happiness.