Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FINMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: A girl describes the hideaway in her closet where she goes when she wants to spend time by herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003
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Summary: For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: A bird named Only likes his quiet time and alone time, but he does not want to be lonely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: This novel explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIWells, Benedict
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live. At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELDefoe, Daniel
Summary: Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary existence on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco River for twenty-four years. He meets the difficulties of primitive life with ingenuity and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Summary: "A celebration of the joy and comfort to be found in alone time and the joy and comfort that a friend can bring"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC OWEOwens, Delia
Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC OWE (Book Club Kit 10 paperbacks)Owens, Delia
Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction OweClements, Andrew
Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1988
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLEEvans, Rebecca
Summary: When Liling moves from her home in the mountains of China to the big city, her parents cannot afford to send her to school, and she spends her days with her mother, wishing she had a friend--until she sees a girl in a yellow coat, who lives in the next building, comes from a different mountain, and is happy to be Liling's friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EVAGould, Howard Michael
Summary: Pathologically committed to a minimalist life in solitude, former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo is drawn into the case of once-famous, heavily-drinking actor Alastair Pinch, whose wife has been found dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUKashiwaba, Hiro
Summary: Remember me. In her youth, Jeanne was a powerful witch who vanquished the evil Demon King and saved the world--but over time, the people she rescued have forgotten her. Now she is a lonely old woman living in a secluded forest...until she accidentally summons a cat from Earth to her home! The former city kitty is now gigantic and must acclimate to this new world. Can a cat from another world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2024
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Summary: Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PASBrown-Wood, JaNay
Summary: "When Rosie and the rest of the Love Puppies find out that Meiko is struggling to make friends at her new school, they are sure they can sniff out a solution! But it takes more than magic to break the ice. If they can be creative, these caring canines might just find a lonely girl her paw-fect match!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROHannah, Kristin.
Summary: After twenty-four years of marriage and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jackson Shore have drifted apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hannah 2002Owens, Delia
Summary: "Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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Summary: In the tranquil wilderness of Northern Michigan, school custodian Buddy Robertson finds all that he needs: the rhythms of nature, the unpretentious companionship of Mags and their seven cats, solitude from others — and a safe escape from the loss and abuse of his childhood. During cold months, Buddy fusses with his collections of various treasures. Winter's end brings maple syrup production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PAYSummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHAnderson, M. T.
Summary: A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MEDunrea, Olivier
Summary: While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017