Since 2004, an average of three houses a day are torn down, many of them original homes built for the middle working class in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Very few are deemed significant enough to merit heritage protection, but they are...
Apartment houses
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Author:Atkin, John, Lau, Evelyn, Lazarus, Eve, Partridge, Stephen, Partridge, Elise, Mackie, John, Simmers, Bren, Gold, KerrySummary: -
Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary: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.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Precocious six-year-old Bertie joins the scouts to escape his mother, Matthew learns to handle the challenges of marriage, and Domenica deals with loneliness. Even four-legged Cyril gets in on the action, finding himself a bit of canine...
- Author:Foley, LucySummary:
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension - an undeniably engrossing guessing game." - Vogue "[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller....
- Author:Foley, LucySummary:
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...
- Author:Unger, LisaSummary:
"Spine-tingling fun." - People "Lisa Unger, you've done it again." - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actress. A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller...
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Author:Slezkine, YuriSummary:Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.
- Author:Koike, MarikoSummary:
One of the most popular writers working in Japan today, Mariko Koike is a recognized master of detective fiction and horror writing. Known in particular for her hybrid works that blend these styles with elements of romance, The...
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Author:Fleming, AnneSummary:When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there's a goat living on the roof...
- Author:Gilb, DagobertoSummary:
Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.
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Author:Inman, JohnSummary:Welcome to the Belladonna Arms, a rundown little apartment building perched atop a hill in downtown San Diego, home to the city’s lost and lovelorn. Shy archaeology student Stanley Sternbaum has just moved in and fills his time quietly...
- Author:Sampson, FreyaSummary:
USA Today bestseller! Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else's secrets... At Shelley House, the walls have ears, and they're attached to a ragtag duo of busybodies ready to pry, snoop, and generally annoy their...
- Author:Cassidy, Nat.Summary:
This program is read by the author. Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings , which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot , set in an...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Stil enduring psychotherapy, the precocious Bertie gets a chance to escape when he joins a junior orchestra trip to Paris--wher he is accidentally left behind. Never fear for Bertie, though. He quickly finds the silver lining by making...
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Author:Alcott, KathleenSummary:Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all crippled in various ways-in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart. When faced with eviction by Edith's estranged,...
- Author:Mistry, RohintonSummary:
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry's eagerly anticipated novel is set in Bombay in the mid-1990s. Nariman, an ailing, elderly Parsi widower, lives with his middle-aged stepchildren and dreams of...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
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...
- Author:Mantel, HilarySummary:
An English couple's life in Saudi Arabia told through the eyes of Frances, the wife. She describes the heat, the ugliness and the menace of Islamic law. Men stroll in the street with rifles and from the apartment upstairs comes...
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Author:Pennypacker, SaraSummary: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...
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