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1) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
Author
Series
Sworn soldier volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher" from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher. When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing...
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
Author
Publisher
Cameron + Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a quiet life of books and lovely views from his hilltop home, a pig is dismayed to encounter an excessively friendly duck who builds an elaborate home obscuring Pig's window and who talks about his numerous athletic exploits.
8) Home
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2010, 2009.
Language
English
Description
Four best friends all live happily together in a house they call home, until each decides to go their separate ways, taking various parts of the house with them, and eventually they learn the difference between a house and a home.
9) Jack
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Young Jack meets a host of animals on his way to ask the king for a house"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When animals seeking new homes see Old Mill Farm, they know that it is just right, while human house-hunters, shown a variety of houses by their realtor, finally make clear what they are truly seeking and wind up at the farm, as well.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of Voice of America paints a vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary African family and the house that holds them together. A powerful tale of family and community, This House Is Not for Sale brings to life an African neighborhood and one remarkable house, seen through the eyes of a young member of the household. The house lies in a town seemingly lost in time, full of colorful, larger-than-life characters; at the...
15) Moving house!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
17) If you live here
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever imagined what it would be like to live in a treehouse, underground, in a castle, or even in a spaceship? If You Live Here is a whimsical tribute to the unique and special places we call home"-- Provided by publisher
18) Home sweet home
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pets describe the different types of homes they live in with their owners, including a guesthouse in Cape Cod, a rowhouse in San Francisco, and an apartment in Hong Kong.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated "community" that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft County-We Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism. Where beauty lies, secrets are held...ugly...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Gray House is an astounding tale of how what others understand as liabilities can be leveraged into strengths. Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled students living in the House are overlooked by the Outsides. Not that it matters to anyone living in the House, a hulking old structure that its residents know is alive. From the corridors and crawl spaces to the classrooms and dorms, the House is full of...
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