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21) Leyla
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from...
Author
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
The oft-quoted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for two works: Walden and Civil Disobedience. Walden, first published in 1854, documents the time Thoreau spent living with nature in a hand-built cabin in the woods near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. A minor work in its own time, Walden burgeoned in popularity during the counter culture movement of the 1960s. Civil Disobedience is thought to have originated after Thoreau spent a night...
Author
Description
"A novel about small towns, art, and loneliness. What is Evie of the Deepthorn? It's a cult Canadian movie that Kent looks to for inspiration as he struggles to understand the death of his brother in Durham, a small town light-years from Toronto. It's a fantasy novel that Sarah wrestles with as she navigates a traumatic childhood and comes to terms with her failures as an adult. It's a poem that motivates Reza to go on a pilgrimage from which he will...
26) Lonesome Lester
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
38 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories"--
29) Alone!
Author
Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
There once was a boy called Billy McGill who lived by himself at the top of a hill. He spent every day in his house all alone for Billy McGill liked to be on his own. But life doesn't always turn out how you plan it... One day, Billy hears the squeak of a mouse--destroying his perfectly peaceful existence. So he gets a cat to catch the mouse. But the cat and the mouse make friends. So he gets a dog to chase the cat. But they all play together too....
30) Gus
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
32 pages: color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Gus, a gosling who likes to be by himself. But when his adventures lead him to a turtle's nest, he's in for some unexpected companionship!"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace - until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously...
Author
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company. He has stayed alive for two winters--hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn's isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Gus, a gosling who likes to be by himself. But when his adventures lead him to a turtle's nest, he's in for some unexpected companionship!
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
2-disc special ed ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cloud Strife struggles with his past, and decides to live a solitary life, in a peaceful town with orphans. Then one ordinary day, Cloud receives a phone call for a job asking protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
80 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie is a mouse who's trying to write but has a block. Writing is a solitary endeavor. A bird named Solitude comes to visit him to keep him company. We're never sure he actually exists but in Charlie's mind, yet he brings him out into the world, dares him to experience the unknown, unblocking his little existence-- A drama about the blank page for Charlie who so wants to make the world more beautiful with his writing" -- from publisher's web site....