Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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-- Forty-four Scotland Street.2005., Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- One Fifth Avenue2009, c2008., Editions Albin Michel Call No: FR Fic Bus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Suite à la mort de la propriétaire d'un appartement de prestige au numéro 1 de la Cinquième avenue à New York, Carrie Bradshaw assiste aux tractations de nombreux personnages qui convoitent cette adresse: une chroniqueuse mondaine et son neveu scénariste, une comédienne de télévision débarquée de Los Angeles, une blogueuse acerbe, etc.
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2012, c2011., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Corduroy Mansions series.Summary Note: It seems the universe is conspiring against the residents of Corduroy Mansions, as everyone finds themselves struggling with their nearest and dearest. William French's faithful terrier, Freddie de la Hay - perhaps the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6 - disappears while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside. Will Freddie find his way back to Pimlico? Is this the end of Corduroy Mansions?.
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c2010., General, Knopf Canada Call No: SC Fic Mcc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Corduroy Mansions series Volume: 2Summary Note: "This is the 2nd novel in the new series featuring the Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay following CORDUROY MANSIONS. Our small, furry, endlessly surprising canine hero - belonging to failed oenophile William French - has been recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring. Needless to say, the other denizens of Corduroy Mansions have issues of their own. But all of it will be addressed with the wit, charm and insight into the foibles of the human condition that have become the author's hallmark.
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2006., Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six years old, prepares for kindergarten despite the horror of being forced to wear pink overalls. Meanwhile, his domineering mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr. Fairbairn struggle with dark secrets as Bertie plots his rebellion against them.
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By Delaney, J P2017., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Del Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass and soaring ceilings. But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house retains full control: no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform its occupant--and it does. After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street she is instantly drawn to the space--and to its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home's previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people and experiences the same terror, as the girl before."--Publisher.
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By Reva, Maria2020., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rev Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingeniously intertwined narratives that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the authorities, they devise ingenious ways to survive. In "Bone Music," an agoraphobic woman survives by selling contraband LPs, mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records into stolen x-ray film. A delusional secret service agent in "Letter of Apology" becomes convinced he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, if only he can convince a contrarian poet to officially apologize for reciting a forbidden joke. Weaving the narratives together is an unforgettable, chameleon-like girl named Zaya: a disfigured orphan in "Little Rabbit," a beauty-pageant crasher in "Miss USSR," and, when she reaches adulthood, a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern bloc's newly minted oligarchs in "Homecoming." Good Citizens Need Not Fear takes us from moments of intense paranoia to surprising tenderness and back again, exploring what it means to be an individual amidst the roiling forces of history. Inspired by her and her family's own experiences in Ukraine, Reva brings the black absurdism of early Shteyngart and the sly interconnectedness of Anthony Marra's The Tsar of Love and Techno to a fictional world that is as clever as it is heartfelt."--
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By Sager, Riley2019., Dutton Call No: MYS Fic Sag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York's oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story. until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent"--
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-- 1 Fifth Avenue.c2008., Voice Call No: Fic Bus Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.--From www.everywomansvoice.com.
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By Foley, Lucy2022., Adult, William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment (could Ben really have afforded this?), he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother's situation, and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's Ben's future that's in question. The socialite. The nice guy. The alcoholic. The girl on the verge. The concierge. Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they're not telling.
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2021., Adult, Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: 44 Scotland Street Volume: 14Summary Note: From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends. The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's New Town.
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By Vyleta, Danc2011., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Vyl Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This is the much-anticipated new novel from the author of PAVEL & I. Set in Nazi-occupied Vienna, a time of political paranoia and suspicion. A string of unsolved murders in an apartment building has thrown the occupants into a state of uneasy watchfulness. Doctor Anton Beer has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny: he has smuggled a paralyzed and deathly ill woman into his apartment to nurse her in secret. The mystery at the heart of this novel is the temper of a diseased society in which every person's actions are infected by the possibility of evil."--Publisher.
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2010., Vintage Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The 44 Scotland Street series.Summary Note: At 44 Scotland Street, six-year-old Bertie seeks escape in the Cub Scouts; Matthew rises to the challenge of married life; Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual; and Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.
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c2008., Vintage Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The focus is squarely on precocious six-year-old Bertie this time, as the young lad with the overbearing mother learns to speak Italian, play the saxophone, and do yoga.
