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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual--and commonplace--items from the park and their neighbors to set up a natural history museum in the basement of their apartment building, hoping that Mrs. Blankenship will not find out and spoil their fun.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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At 44 Scotland Street, six-year-old Bertie seeks escape in the Cub Scouts; Matthew rises to the challenge of married life; Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual; and Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Spine-tingling fun." —People
"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." —Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actress
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York...
"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." —Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actress
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York...
9) The Heights
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that's when you see a man up there--a man you'd recognize anywhere. He may be older now, but it's definitely him. But that can't be because he's been dead for over two years. You know this for a fact. Because you're the one who...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 7
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of Edinburgh's beloved characters, many of whom are in the midst of new beginnings, including Bertie, who's been thinking that he might want to start over with a new family and so puts himself up for adoption on eBay.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, have changed everything"--
13) The brownstone
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Slightly revised from the 1972 original."
Six animal families have trouble finding the right apartment in a brownstone building, where the Bear family just wants to sleep while the Kangaroos dance, Miss Cat sings, and smells from the Pigs' apartment fill the air.
Author
Series
Otis Dooda volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Everyday, nine-year-old Otis Dooda confronts a series of zany changes when his father's new job prompts the family's move to a New York City apartment, where Otis is cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby and has to team up with a new friend and a gassy miniature horse to break the curse.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Pat, working at an Edinburgh art gallery while on sabbatical from college, becomes involved in the lives of her eccentric neighbors at 44 Scotland Street, while trying to solve the mystery of a possible lost masterpiece.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 4
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Bertie and artist Angus Lordie join forces to rescue Lordie's beloved dog Cyril from the pound in this fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lucy and Zach set up a yoga studio in the basement of their apartment building using potted plants from the lobby, door mats taken from various neighbors, and their very limited knowledge of yoga, on a day when snooty Mrs. Blankenship is giving her book club a tour.
Author
Language
English
Description
"No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
20) The balcony
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.
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