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Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
There is never a quiet moment on 44 Scotland Street. In The World According to Bertie, Pat deals with the reappearance of Bruce, which has her heart skippingand not in a pleasant way. Angus Lordie's dog Cyril has been taken away by the authorities, accused of being a serial biter. Unexpectedly, Domenica has offered to help free him. As usual, Big Lou is still looking for love, and handing out coffee and advice to the always contemplative Matthew....
Author
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn't, they wouldn't be renting rooms in a dodgy old building for cash--no credit check, no lease. It's the kind of place you end up when you've run out of other options. The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don't know is that one of them is a killer. He's already chosen his next...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Though not economically privileged herself, her close childhood friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the mere fact of living in such a wealthy neighborhood, close to her beloved Natural History Museum, brought her certain advantages, even expectations....
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Chi's sweet home volume 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America, where a person can rise aboveone'sstation....
70) Gato Feliz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Gato sube del sotano y en cada piso saluda a un nuevo amigo, hasta llegar al lugar perfecto para el.
Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.
71) The snowy day
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
Language
English
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Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Disability Pride Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Description
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Daphne Walters is loving her new life at Rycroft Manner with her ghostly roommates - but trouble is right around the corner! Rycroft's got new resident - the musician Zola - and she's getting close to Daphne...and causing friction amongst the residents! Meanwhile, Daphne and Kristi, best friends since high school, might just be the ones who can't find their way back to each other. And since trouble comes in threes, Daphne's former college roommate...
74) One-third nerd
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
76) Stop! Bot!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.
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