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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times Bestseller
We are in an elegant hôtel particulier in the center of Paris. Renée, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in a posh Parisian neighborhood. But Renée has a secret:...
We are in an elegant hôtel particulier in the center of Paris. Renée, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in a posh Parisian neighborhood. But Renée has a secret:...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big, wide, wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was, thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy, clueless Sheldon and practical, grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse
4) Silver skies
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a group of working-class residents whose lives turn upside down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has assembled a high-profile cast to play some very complicated roles. With humor and compassion, she brings these old-timers to a place of fear, a little romance and deep caring for each other's wellbeing. The story is easily relatable, as the aging population confronts a downturn...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Prepare to enter phase nine of television's perpetual laughter experiment as the show successfully fuses the elements of science and sitcom. Our two genius roommates, Leonard and Sheldon, and their friends are back once again (smarter, but no wiser). Last season, Sheldon went soul-searching (on a train, of course) and was prepared to make some substantial revisions on his Relationship Agreement with Amy, when everything changed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
He's baaack! Sheldon is retrieved from his soul-searching cross-country train trip (older but no wiser) and that means the gang's all here to spread another year's cheer as TV's most attended laugh seminar. Enroll in this comic curriculum to explore Leonard's minor surgery becoming a major catastrophe from his roommate, Howard's obsession over his mom's relationship with retailer-turned-caretaker Stuart, and the peculiar results of Penny's technique...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Leonard and Penny went from next-door neighbors to next-door newlyweds with a nuptial excursion to Vegas. This season, they find themselves in a repeating paradigm as they re-create their wedding, this time with family including Penny's mother and brother and Leonard's parents. Meanwhile, the Relationship Agreement between Sheldon and Amy added an entirely new subsection with their annual coitus clause
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists -- geniuses in the laboratory but socially-challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "relationship agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, and he recently...
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When the residents of an apartment block on London Lane are quarantined for seven days, they discover that, through make ups, breakups, love-ins, and friendships, life is full of surprises as they try to make it through the week unscathed
Author
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale
"[A] heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of ... A PERFECT LIFE. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. This season, Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!), Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch, Raj woos a terminator, gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Season six kicks off in space, where Howard is caught in an argument between Bernadette and his mom. Back on Earth, Sheldon decides to hire Alex, a young female assistant, which makes Amy feel threatened. Meanwhile, Leonard and Penny make strides to define their relationship and Raj attempts to find love. Find out what surprises are in store for everyone, once Howard returns home in these twenty four episodes
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this warmly funny and delightfully sharp debut rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love"--
After getting passed over for an overdue and much needed promotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night-stand. When she mixes up a long-ignored dating app for...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Socially challenged they remain, but the scientific geniuses of show always deliver hilarious results. Leonard returns from his North Sea expedition to find that his relationship with Penny involves more beta-testing than he's ever done in a lab. Howard's attachment issues with women in his life in particular and Raj's social breakthrough with women in general provide more laughs. Bernadette and Amy stand staunchly by the men in their life, even when...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When the "grownup virus" hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Regarding the opposite sex, they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense, they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes, chemical deviations, girls, and other mysteries of the universe
Author
Series
Journaling mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Single mom, barista and journaling video blogger extraordinaire Mandy Meadows is distracted from her shift in the University of Seattle Hospital coffee bar when her friend - nurse and fellow journaling video blogger Reese O'Leary-Sett - receives a massage from hell at the hands of Coral Le Charme, the hospital's new massage therapist. But concern over Coral's dubious skills is the least of Mandy's worries when she discovers Coral's lifeless body...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. And when Penny, a woman with all those atoms in all the right places, moves in across the hall, Leonard and Sheldon's universe begins to expand in ways they never could have imagined
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Divorced single mom Mandy Meadows scrapes by working as a barista and receiving payments from her cousin, Ryan, who rents her basement apartment. At night, she and her teenage daughter Vellum run a successful home business as journaling bloggers on their popular YouTube channel. But Mandy's carefully organized world is about to come crashing down. While filming their latest journaling tutorial, Mandy and Vellum hear a loud noise on the basement stairs,...
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