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"A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy...
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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen -- and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a road trip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to...
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In this loud, irreverent comedy, Jimmy, a terminally ill young man with a penchant for waxing philosophical and sudden costume changes, finds his hedonistic world of casual sex, drinking and board games derailed when he learns that his best friend and roommate, James, has gotten a job.
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500 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
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English
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"New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide -- a barber with an opaque past -- embarks...
5) Kill for me
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A pair of roommates, each with abusive men in her past, devise a plan to murder the men to solve the problem once and for all.
6) My old lady
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Finnish
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In the uproarious second season of this relatable comedy from Finland, 30-something couple, Aino and Micke consider starting a family, which is easier said than done! Especially when they share their apartment with Aino's unemployed brother. Will their parents give them the space they need? Is the time right to have a baby, especially now that their careers are at a critical turning point?
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2 videodiscs (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Finnish
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Follow the life and times of an urban, bilingual, environmentally conscious left-wing couple in their thirties: Aino, who's originally from Finnish Lapland, and Swedish-speaking Micke. They are forced to move to an upper-class neighborhood, into an apartment owned by Micke's wealthy parents, who also live next door. In addition to Micke's parents, his childhood friend lives in the same building. When Aino's yokel brother moves into their guest room,...
10) The curve
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two college roommates kill their roommate, framing it as a suicide and as a result, their grades are upgraded and the trouble begins.
11) Five brides
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"Five single, fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s but rarely see one another. One Saturday afternoon, as they are serendipitously together downtown, they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window at the famous Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. After trying it on--much to the dismay of the salesclerk and without a single boyfriend or date between the five of them--they decide to pool their money to purchase...
12) Shallow grave
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Criterion collection volume 616
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash, but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
13) The flatshare
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328 pages ; 25 cm
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Tiffy and Leon share an apartment in London. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only...
14) Until it's over
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376 pages ; 25 cm
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Astrid is on her way home one day when her neighbor accidentally knocks her off her bike. The next day, she learns that the same neighbor was beaten to death only hours after the accident. Two weeks later there's another brutal murder-- and she realizes there is a killer in the household.
15) L!fe happens
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
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385 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, Mabel Dagmar is befriended by her roommate, the blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Invited to spend the summer at Bittersweet, a cottage...
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"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End -- until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
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They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment -- a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years later, Morgan Shelby joins them. She's ambitious, with a serious finance...
19) City love
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"Told from alternating points of view, City Love is the story of three very different girls living together in NYC as they struggle to find the balance between their dreams, their pasts, and their complicated hearts."--
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
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