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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Description
This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The...
4) Happy Cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
From the phenomenon Alexander McCall Smith comes the third book in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to research the domestic economy of contemporary pirate households. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, painter Angus Lordie's dog, Cyril, has been dog-napped, and Pat gets herself caught up in a potential love triangle. Bertie, the six-year-old prodigal son of the insufferable Irene, is accidentally...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Fate is on its way to the tenants of 66 Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change lives ... One of them is falling in love; another is torn between two lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences.
8) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Appears on list
Description
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
9) The tenan
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1976
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
10) Anxious people
Author
Description
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
11) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
"A picture book about a surreptitious spider who gathers the courage to help the neighbors she has watched over from afar--a promising painter, a proper little lady, a mindful young man, a brave girl and her exceptionally brave tortoise"--
12) Love nest
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jim Scott is an aspiring writer who, together with his wife Connie, moves into the basement of the apartment building that they have bought. Jim's hopes to make a profit are thwarted by the everyday travails of maintaining the building and taking care of the needs of their tenants. Charming con artist Charley targets Eadie as his latest victim and when he is finally caught, he generously offers to tell his story to Jim, thereby launching Jim's career...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
14) Other birds
Author
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
16) Sleep tight
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A doorman who hates anyone who is happy, turns one of the building's resident's life into a nightmare.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
243 pages : 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
Author
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
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