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In an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families, Reně, the concierge, and Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius, hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Kakuro Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Reně's timeworn disguise to the secret that...
Publisher
Urban Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a group of residents in an apartment building. As their paths cross, their situations break down to a basic search for love, money, understanding and more time. We see their stories become one - that of the heart.
3) The hedgehog
Publisher
Neo Classics Films Ltd
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The timely story of a girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father's old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renee Michel. When Paloma's camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renee's back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (529 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big, wide, wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was, thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy, clueless Sheldon and practical, grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (481 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. This season, Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!), Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch, Raj woos a terminator, gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. And when Penny, a woman with all those atoms in all the right places, moves in across the hall, Leonard and Sheldon's universe begins to expand in ways they never could have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"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 fixer-upper begins to change in lovely and surprising...
8) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Author
Series
The apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Formats
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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.
10) Just like heaven
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elizabeth is a dedicated, workaholic doctor who is much to busy to have a life. One night, she gets into a terrible car accident and dies. She becomes a spirit stuck between heaven and earth. She doesn't realize that she is dead and thinks nothing has happened. That is until she meets David, a lonely architect, who has rented her old apartment. David thinks he is going crazy when he sees Elizabeth's spirit and tries everyway he can think of to get...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"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 forget, and leaving them at the doorstep of an uncertain future....
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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.
"[A] heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of . . . A PERFECT LIFE. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (15 hr., 7 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The pilot & first season that introduced America to the redheaded housewife with show business aspirations, her long-suffering bandleader husband, and their friends the Mertzes (the prototypical sitcom wacky neighbors). Produced by Ball & Arnaz' company Desilu, the duo (along with co-creator Jess Oppenheimer) decided to shoot the show in Hollywood, on 35 mm film in front of a live studio audience, with three cameras to capture the action.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He’s Stuntboy. He’s got the moves. And the saves. Except. There’s been one major fail. He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball...
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