House of a Million Rooms

House of a Million Rooms
Author: Wil Mara
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1538383535

Three friends go against their parents' wishes and enter the old house that's been sitting abandoned on the edge of town for over a hundred years, and quickly realize getting back out isn't simply a matter of turning around.

House of a Million Rooms

House of a Million Rooms
Author: Wil Mara
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1538383586

Three friends go against their parents' wishes and enter the old house that's been sitting abandoned on the edge of town for over a hundred years, and quickly realize getting back out isn't simply a matter of turning around.

Room

Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2017-05-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 178682177X

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

Rooms

Rooms
Author: James L. Rubart
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0805448888

A young software tycoon inherits a coastal Oregon home that is really a physical manifestation of his soul being used by God to heal the man's greatest wounds.

The Secret Rooms

The Secret Rooms
Author: Catherine Bailey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101636742

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records—but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.

The House That Lou Built

The House That Lou Built
Author: Mae Respicio
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524717975

"If this book were a house, the rooms would be filled with warmth, family, and friendship." --Erin Entrada Kelly, author of the Newbery Medal winner Hello, Universe; The Land of Forgotten Girls; and Blackbird Fly A coming-of-age story that explores culture and family, forgiveness and friendship, and what makes a true home. Perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Joan Bauer. Lou Bulosan-Nelson has the ultimate summer DIY project. She's going to build her own "tiny house," 100 square feet all her own. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house, and longs for a place where she can escape her crazy but lovable extended Filipino family. Lou enjoys her woodshop class and creating projects, and she plans to build the house on land she inherited from her dad, who died before she was born. But then she finds out that the land may not be hers for much longer. Lou discovers it's not easy to save her land, or to build a house. But she won't give up; with the help of friends and relatives, her dream begins to take shape, and she learns the deeper meaning of home and family. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Equal parts girl-heart, muscle and know-how for today's reader. Endearing to the end." --Rita Williams-Garcia, Newbery-Honor-and-Coretta-Scott King -Award-winning author of the National Book Award Finalist Clayton Byrd Goes Underground "Warm, funny and affirming. As we get to know Lou, her extended Filipino family, and friends, the door opens into her life and, ultimately, her home." --Lisa Yee, author of the Millicent Min trilogy, The Kidney Hypothetical, the DC Super Hero Girls series, and other books "There couldn't be a hero more determined, resourceful or lovable than Lucinda Bulosan-Nelson. Her big dream of a tiny house is irresistible." --Tricia Springstubb, author of Every Single Second, What Happened on Fox Street, Moonpenny Island, and the Cody series "I fell in love with Lou and her wonderful extended family. This story may be about a tiny house, but it has an enormous heart." --Kate Messner, author of The Exact Location of Home

House of Suns

House of Suns
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316462616

An "engaging and awe-inspiring"(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels. Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane -- two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences -- must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence . . .

The Sixty-Eight Rooms

The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Author: Marianne Malone
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375893245

Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!

There's Someone Inside Your House

There's Someone Inside Your House
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101590025

Now a Netflix Feature Film! “A heart-pounding page-turner with an outstanding cast of characters, a deliciously creepy setting, and an absolutely merciless body count.” –Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and The Project A New York Times bestseller It’s been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother and she’s still adjusting to her new life in rural Nebraska. Then, one by one, students at her high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasing and grotesque flair. As the body count rises and the terror grows closer, can Makani survive the killer’s twisted plan?

The Videomaniac

The Videomaniac
Author: Wil Mara
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1538383527

At a local flea market, thirteen-year-old Brian Hart meets a creepy old man who gives him computer software that can predict future football NFL games. But is the power to see the future really as beneficial as Brian believes?