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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense … OL13351631W
La elegancia del erizo La elegancia del erizo Muriel Barbery En el número 7 de la calle Grenelle, un inmueble burgués de París, nada es lo que parece. Dos de sus habitantes esconden un secreto. Renée, la portera, lleva mucho tiempo fingiendo ser una mujer comú… OL17207158W
Earthly Delights Earthly Delights Kerry Greenwood Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman ... mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.Baking i… OL1732401W
La tentación de ser felices La tentación de ser felices Shaun Whiteside,Renaud Temperini,Lorenzo Marone Cesare is 77 years old, a widower and cynical troublemaker, a man who has always had trouble caring for others and has given up trying. Aside from an intermittent fling with a mature nurse called Ros… OL17640430W
The apartment The apartment Greg Baxter "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 an… OL18150988W
A Long Way Down A Long Way Down Nick Hornby 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 enc… OL1916914W
A long way down A long way down Nick Hornby Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story of the Top… OL1916935W
The elegance of the hedgehog The elegance of the hedgehog Muriel Barbery Renée, a concierge in Paris, and Paloma, an intelligent 12-year-old, discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man arrives and helps them uncover each of their secrets. The plot contains p… OL19927867W
A perfect life A perfect life Danielle Steel A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity status and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world. OL19986215W
Infinite home Infinite home Kathleen Alcott 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, … OL20005933W
Inu x Boku SS Inu x Boku SS Cocoa Fujiwara In search of independence and solitude, the sharp-tongued Ririchiyo Shirakiin moves to the Maison de Ayakashi, an apartment building with its own Secret Service. Ririchiyo is eager to be alone, but u… OL20009107W
Inu X Boku SS Inu X Boku SS Cocoa Fujiwara Efforts to reunite the members of Ayakashi Hall take an unexpected, tragic turn when one of their number falls in the battle. The death of a close friend serves to strengthen the remaining throwbacks… OL20026726W
The watcher The watcher Armstrong, Ross (Actor) 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 everyth… OL20054421W
Last man in tower Last man in tower Aravind Adiga Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower… OL20879013W
The girl on the stairs The girl on the stairs Louise Welsh Some buildings are alive with memories. Jane Logan is six months pregnant and has moved to Berlin to live with her long-term lover, rich banker, Petra. The women's chic new apartment is in a trendy p… OL21190218W
The boy who climbed into the moon The boy who climbed into the moon Polly Dunbar,Polly Dunbar,David Almond Helped by a very long ladder, some unusual acquaintances, two rather worried parents, and a great deal of community spirit, a young English boy makes an astonishing discovery when he embarks on a mis… OL469080W
Who gets the apartment? Who gets the apartment? Steven A. Rigolosi "A Manhattan-based novel of mystery and suspense in which four strangers compete to win a luxury penthouse on Central Park"--Provided by publisher. OL5836907W
Absent Absent Betool Khedairi Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their … OL8036178W