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Series
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Critters: Carnivorous aliens that resemble furballs with teeth invade Earth, and only a duo of bounty hunters, and a family of farmers, can stop them.
Critters 2: The critters return when a batch of old eggs is accidentally hatched, and the small town of Grover's Bend is once again under siege by the evil furballs.
Critters 3: The evil furballs from space invade a shoddy L.A. apartment building.
Critters 4: Charlie the bounty hunter is trapped...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Mr. MacDonald, an apartment super, turns his building into a four-story farm with hot and cold running sweet potato vines, ceiling carrots, carpets of cabbages, and other farm produce and animals, prompting all the tenants to move out.
45) Just ask Iris
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the summer before seventh grade, twelve-year-old Iris Diaz-Pinkowitz goes up and down the fire escape outside her new New York City apartment, becoming an integral part of the lives of her human and animal neighbors.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 15
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There s Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And of course, there's young Bertie Pollock, whose starry-eyed...
48) Silver skies
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a group of working-class residents whose lives turn upside down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has assembled a high-profile cast to play some very complicated roles. With humor and compassion, she brings these old-timers to a place of fear, a little romance and deep caring for each other's wellbeing. The story is easily relatable, as the aging population confronts a downturn...
49) Under suspicion
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Paige Meyers enjoys managing an apartment building in Peters Cove, Florida. She shares an apartment in the building with her teenage daughter, Lexi. When Samuel Bishop, the owner and Paige's dear friend, dies in a car accident, the fate of the building hangs in the balance. While Paige grieves her friend and worries about the future, she can't shake the eerie sensation that someone is watching her. Her unease grows as disturbing incidents occur...
50) The neighbors
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1999], c1996
Language
English
Description
A novel on a lone woman's vulnerability in a large apartment block. The heroine is Kate Ashenberry, a journalist who has returned to London from New York and has taken an apartment in a large Victorian block. One evening she become conscious of a voyeur, then the murders begin.
51) The resident
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.
52) Saha: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ruby grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Her friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the neighborhood's location brought certain advantages. Ruby took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college but now is no closer to her dream job and is forced to move back in with her parents. Tonight Caroline is throwing a party in her...
55) Bon voyage
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 3
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mili loves her new home but misses the excitement of traveling, so she persuades her neighbors to join her on a trip to Paris.
56) Clementina
Author
Publisher
Grupo Editorial Norma
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
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.
Publisher
ITV Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Bridal fever: While editing the memoirs of a famous novelist, Gwen's life is turned upside down by love. The good witch: When she opens a curiosity shop in town, two children think Cassie might just be a witch. For the love of Grace: After the death of his wife, Steve saves the life of and falls in love with an already engaged woman. Come dance at my wedding: When Cyd decides to sell her dance studio she must face her father who is also listed on...
60) The archived: #1
Author
Series
Archived volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Mackenzie Bishop is a ruthless Keeper,...