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1. The tenant
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English
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4 stars
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"Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments on his new brownstone, he's desperate to make ends meet for his fiancée, Krista. Enter: Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent, she's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of...
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590L
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...
3. The tenant
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Series:
Kørner and Werner volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a linkbetween the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
4. The tenant
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Pub. Date:
2003
Language:
English
Description:
Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller THE TENANT. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors — mostly old recluses — eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.
6. The Tenant
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Publisher:
Victoria T
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Prepare yourself for a captivating narrative filled with a web of emotions - love, desire, betrayal, and trickery. This enthralling story will take you on a rollercoaster ride of unexpected twists and turns, leaving you breathless and eager for more. In a world where Connor and Rebecca (Becks) Jones have successfully orchestrated their lives. A teacher and an accountant leading ordinary lives, professional, articulate, attentive parents. But then...
7. The Tenant
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Publisher:
Black Hare Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In a farmhouse where shadows whisper and walls bleed, escape is only a mirage. Steve Gellar is a man on the brink, struggling to rebuild his life after the crushing blows of divorce and addiction. In a desperate bid for a fresh start, he finds himself renting a basement apartment in a remote farmhouse in Upstate New York. The house, owned by the reclusive and eerily composed Mrs. Hughes, seems like a place where Steve can finally get back on his feet....
8. The tenants
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Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language:
English
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"The sole tenant in a run-down tenement, Harry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves in to the building. Harry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend, Irene, and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish...
9. The Tenant
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
The Tenant - Grim Reaper Short Stories
10. The quiet tenant
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop him"--
11. The tenants
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
Description:
On the top floor of an abandoned tenement, Harry struggles to complete the novel he has been writing for almost ten years. Then Willie, a black militant wannabe writer, moves into another part of the building to work on his own book.
14. The Tenant Class
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Publisher:
Between the Lines
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? What if rent hikes and eviction notices aren't the work of the invisible hand of the market, but of a parasitic elite systematically funneling wealth away from working-class families? With...
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Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY-its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book-Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans-were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works to record...
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Publisher:
Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is Anne Brontë's wildly successful and best-known novel. Written in 1848 under the pseudonym "Acton Bell" (each of the Brontë sisters wrote under pen names), it proved to be the most popular book written by the three sisters during their lifetimes. It tells the story of Helen Graham, a young woman who is courted by and marries the spoiled and self-involved Arthur Huntingdon, a charming suitor but a disastrous and cruel...
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Publisher:
Neeland Media LLC
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Originally published in 1848, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel written by Anne Bronte. Considered one of the first feminist novels, it was both instantly successful and highly controversial. The story follows the relationship between Gilbert Markham, a prosperous farmer, and the mysterious widow Mrs. Helen Graham, who takes up residence with only her son and a servant in the nearby tumbledown mansion of Wildfell Hall. Told...
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Publisher:
W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The Tenant - the terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of K L Slater, Jane Renshaw, Teresa DriscollKate has always dreamed of a life in music. And now she's finally done something about it - giving up her steady job, moving to the city to enrol in a degree program at a prestigious college. Needing a place to live, she answers an ad and moves in with Amy who seems a nice lady - mothering and protective. At first Kate is glad to have some...
20. The Tenants
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Publisher:
Anvil Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
45th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest Winner! In the city of Vancouver, even dirt costs. In The Tenants three of its residents are struggling with their homes, whether that's grappling with real estate prices, simmering resentments, or an uneasy co-living arrangement with the local wildlife. Scott and Dave are an odd couple. Scott is single-minded in his goal of buying a house, leading to too-long work hours and an oppressive budgeting system. Dave hides...