Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2006,1848
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 459 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Helen Graham and her young son move into Wildefell Hall, her neighbor Gilbert Markham finds himself drawn to the woman, but when gossip about Helen's reclusive behavior circles the village, Gilbert begins to wonder if his trust in her is misplaced.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate. ...The passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and shift, from those of the hallucinating drug addict in the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventy-year-old Margaret Hughes is tired of living alone in her Seattle mansion, so she welcomes Wanda Schultz, a young woman suffering a broken heart, into her home, and the two form an unlikely friendship.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind"--Provided by publisher.
7) Let it snow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina hopes there is a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely exterior. When she bonds with Wink, his sweet, young granddaughter who frequents...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 511 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga, set in the twilight of the late twentieth century, of two clashing families in coastal Portugal. With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial past. Considered one of Europe's most influential contemporary writers, Portuguese novelist Lídia Jorge has captivated...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. He's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. Then a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer. The stranger has a very particular, and bizarre set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him. He sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with...
10) The spite house
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when...
11) Little men
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 122 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Luchino Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions - her lover, her daughter and the daugther's boyfriend - he is forced to rent them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. Before long his quiet routine is turned upside down and the introverted professor becomes...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Renting out his West London home in the wake of marital and career setbacks, an award-winning artist rediscovers his sense of purpose through relationships with a lonely American, a tortured fellow artist, and a cautiously optimistic divorc©♭e.
"Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
15) 13 cameras
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly-weds move into a new house across the country to find out that their grim and lascivious landlord has been spying on them from day one.
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request