Cranston Public Library

As the elevator moves up from the first floor to the twelfth, various people dressed in different colors get on, all bound for abirthday surprise.

After he sees some unusual late-night deliveries, Martin's active imagination has him and his friends convinced that the man who has recently moved into the attic apartment should be watched.

Michael West becomes obcessed with the mysterious man upstairs.

"Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike's novel is the suspenseful tale of a young family that believes it has found the perfect home to grow into, only to realize that the apartment's idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and that longer they stay, the more trapped they become."--

A group of young people sharing an apartment scheme to get what they all want, a room of their own.

"When a one-night stand at a masquerade party leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Francesca Lane must reveal her true identity to NFL star Tuck Avery, a wealthy and shallow jock (according to the tabloids), who lives in the penthouse of her apartment building--and the last person she wants to be involved with."--

Simon, a fifty-three-year-old Philadelphia architect, is given a year to do as he wishes. He lives in a bare apartment, thinking back on his life and work. A complex relationship develops when he becomes involved with three younger women.

Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom...