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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When the "grownup virus" hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
5) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The "bohemians" live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. It is carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger, an aspiring songwriter, find out they owe a year's rent to Benny. Benny is a former friend who had promised them free rent when he married the landlord's daughter. Roger has also attracted the attention of his downstairs neighbor, Mimi. Mark's...
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
7) Naked City
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
8) The hedgehog
Publisher
NeoClassics Films
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Paloma, a bored eleven-year old who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday, befriends her building's concierge and new neighbor who inspire her to change her pessimistic outlook on life.
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 2
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
458 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chi's adventures continue as her new family moves to a new home, she meets other cats, and learns to like the vacuum.
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 1
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
477 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, she feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment where pets are...
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 10, 11, 12
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
477 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After six years in North America the Chi's Sweet Home saga has finally come to an end! Chi, Blackie, Cocchi and the rest will wrap up their adventures near Green Park in this final collection. But before Chi moves on to her new role as a 3DCG anime star, will she find her true home? Or will she decide to move away in search of new adventures?
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 3
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
459 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, she feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment"--Amazon.com (part...
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