Summary: How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2007
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Summary: In Finding A Place To Live, learn how to find the right place to live. In A Place of Our Own, best friends Nina and Jill look for an apartment to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GWYSummary: A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENTaylor, Jordyn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante. Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un écrivain misanthrope venu des États-Unis pour écrire dans la solitude. Ces deux écorchés vifs sont contraints de cohabiter quelques jours. L'atelier a appartenu au célèbre peintre Sean Lorenz et...
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Publisher / Publication Date: XO Editions 2017
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 MUS FRENCHAllen, Sarah Addison
Summary: "Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AllenSylva, Tasha
Summary: "Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLPasiński, Mikołaj
Summary: "A zany peek into a busy apartment building, and what the one-of-a-kind residents are up to. There's a lot happening inside the apartment building on Bubblegum Street. There's Mouse, a famous rapper, who lives on the ground floor and is getting ready to go out. Panther, the plant collector, has plants from every single continent. Hippo snores in his favorite armchair, dreaming of a great Arctic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PASSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUBarron, Ashley
Summary: "Simple, rhyming words delightfully capture the lovable nature and hilarious habits of mischievous kittens. Three city kitties live in an apartment on a busy street. They sit side-by-side in the window, preening and watching the world go by. They make mischief, hiding from a delivery person and playing in a box. They beg for food and get the zoomies, chasing each other up and down the walls,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books
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Summary: Features forty diverse apartments decorated by real people, plus over four hundred color photographs, floor plans, detailed resource lists, and descriptions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 APACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 GILLosantos, Agata.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loft Publications 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 LosantosPaterson, Boo
Summary: "Step-by-step projects for all skill levels to spruce up your home, from bookends to breakfast trays to birdhouses. With the right tools, guidance, and attitude, anyone can create beautiful and useful home goods from wood. In Cut, Shape, Assemble, award-winning artist Boo Paterson empowers you to craft with confidence and embark on your own creative journey. With information on tools and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 684 PATRivero, Melissa
Summary: "Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVUnger, Lisa
Summary: A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNGBahamon, Alejandro
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.314 BAHLebovitz, David
Summary: "Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LEBWayne, Teddy
Summary: "A powerful new novel from the Whiting Award-winning author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine. In 1996, the unnamed narrator in Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, the narrator offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAYLawson, JonArno
Summary: "A lonely little girl and her grandparent need to fill the run-down apartment in their building. But taking over the quarters above their store will mean major renovations for the new occupants, and none of the potential renters can envision the possibilities of the space--until one special couple shows up. With their ingenuity, the little girl's big heart, and heaps of hard work, the desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWElkin, Lauren
Summary: Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective. Paris, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When her husband confesses to killing someone, and then shoots himself, Alicia moves into the run-down apartment he rented as an art studio to find the truth, while the superintendent, Cass, after blackmailing the wrong guy, must keep her secrets under wraps, especially with Alicia asking questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monacelli Press 2004