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Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--
4) Sylvie
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2022]
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English
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"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"--
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Crown Publishers
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2001, c2000
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English
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The lives of thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme and his parents and the other residents of the Observatory Mansions are changed when the vulnerable, sympathetic, and resourceful Anna Tap moves into an apartment there.
Edward Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.
Once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling...
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2022.
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Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Like Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, Sidik Fofana's electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful...
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