Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked "and leads a solitary existence on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco river for 24 years. He meets the difficulties of a primitive existence with wonderful ingenuity ... At length he meets a human being, a young native ... and makes him his companion and servant." Benét. The Reader's Encyclopedia.

When her daughters leave for college and her husband lands the job of his dreams, Elizabeth Shore struggles to renew her dreams and passion for life.

"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human...

A prime number can be divided only by itself or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both 'primes,' are misfits who seem destined to be alone. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. But the mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles...

Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.

A bird named Only likes his quiet time and alone time, but he does not want to be lonely.

"Hector is a bear with a problem. His best friend, Hummingbird, is just SO NOISY! Worse still, Hummingbird wont stop copying him. Whatever Hector does, Hummingbird wants to do it too really, really LOUDLY. Poor Hector. Will he ever find a bit of peace and quiet?" --

Moopy the underground monster lives alone and likes it that way--but when another monster knocks at her door she discovers that friendship is important.

"'I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It's always there. Always.' Jake once said, "Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought." And here's what I'm thinking: I don't want to be here.' In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving . . . novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded...

"On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the smooth veneer of reality had been broken,...