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1) Watching you
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back thirty times with a kitchen knife in their own homes. Someone must have seen something"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Author
Series
The rule of 3 volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Britt-Marie can't stand mess. When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband, she finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, and layabouts. Most alarming of all, she's given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory. In this small town of big-hearted misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?"--
7) The child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby? As Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime that rocked the city decades earlier: a newborn baby was stolen from...
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the young narrator's house, there is laughter, games, fun, and love! Mom and Dad teach the children to bake together. They all spend time singing or just talking quietly. And the children learn to say 'I'm sorry' and how to clean up after playtime is done. In every house, on every street there is laughter and tears. There are friends. There is family. And there is love" --
Author
Publisher
Smon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time ever, Daniel Tiger ventures beyond the Neighborhood of Make Believe to introduce kids to the helpers in their neighborhood! These community members -- like firefighters, crossing guards, doctors, and teachers -- are there to help in the neighborhood every day in so many different ways."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--
14) Sweet dream pie
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Pa Brindle helps Ma bake her irresistible sweet dream pie, and the whole neighborhood is affected.
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