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Summary: "One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting and intimate tone that gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a vague and frozen city on a single day, into a past the man is hoping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXLaCour, Nina
Summary: Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LACKonami, Kanata
Summary: Kittens, at one point or another, have to set forth and explore the world. Chi goes wandering and learns the dangers of doing so, but it is also a point of feline growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KONKonami, Kanata
Summary: Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Konami, Kanata
Summary: Follows the adventures of Chi, a mischievous kitten who is adopted by Yohei and his family, the Yamadas, even though their lease explicitly states pets are not allowed in their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2011
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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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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, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGunty, Tess
Summary: 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. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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5 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GuntyAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADISummary: Lost and lonely, and separated from her mother and siblings, a newborn kitten named Chi cries in a park. What she thinks must be the end, however, turns out to be a brand new adventure when the Yamada family gives her a new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DiscoTek Media 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CHIBarbery, Muriel
Summary: The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Company 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSteel, Danielle.
Summary: Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2014Loyd, Amy Grace.
Summary: "A young woman, haunted by loss ... rediscovers passion and possibility when she's drawn into the tangled lives of her neighbors"-- Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOYKonami, Kanata
Summary: The apartment manager has seen a cat around the building and wants it found and removed. Is it Chi?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KONEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSAlcott, Kathleen.
Summary: Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCArmstrong, Ross
Summary: Lily Gullick, an avid bird watcher who's also been spying on her neighbors, sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbor is found dead. Can Lily really trust everything she sees?
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMHornby, Nick.
Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORHammond, Gerald
Summary: Douglas Young, a surveyor, decides to buy Underwood House,near Edinburgh, and develop it into apartments, but when one of his neighbors is found dead, Douglas and his young assistant Tasch, become involved in the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMKonami, Kanata
Summary: Chi's adventures continue as her new family moves to a new home, she meets other cats, and learns to like the vacuum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical, Inc. 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Regarding the opposite sex, they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense, they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes, chemical deviations, girls, and other mysteries of the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGSummary: Cuban-born bandleader Ricky Ricardo and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful, but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. Their best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves in the middle of Lucy's outlandish escapades. Now in the third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012