Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J PA FIC HADLevy, Joanne
Summary: "In this novel for middle-grade readers, painfully shy Beatrice Gelman ends up at summer camp all by herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVSummary: In an honest and hilarious depiction of life during a lockdown, a couple is forced to re-evaluate themselves when they're stuck indoors for more than a year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOGSummary: A nightmare transmission from the grungiest depths of the New York indie underground, the visceral, darkly funny, and sui generis debut feature from Ronald Bronstein is a dread-inducing vision of misfit alienation at its unhinged extreme. In a maniacal performance of almost frightening commitment, Keith, a disturbingly maladjusted social outcast and self-described "troll" whose neuroses plunge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life isn't perfect, but he feels at home in his New York City apartment. Then his dad takes a job in London, and everything changes. His parents separate, and Ben's mom moves them back to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Ben's simple life is suddenly complicated. He misses his apartment, his best friend, Jake, and his dad. Then he meets Mabley, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MARKamins, Heather
Summary: "Anna is a regular teenaged girl ... But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious ... but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease. Anna's world is turned upside down ... Her friends don't seem to understand, running track is out of the question, and the other kids at the disease clinic she attends once a week are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAMGudenkauf, Heather
Summary: Wylie Lark is snowed in at the farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book. Decades ago, in this very house, two people were murdered and a girl disappeared. Now, Wylie discovers a small child outside.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GUDGlynn, Dylan
Summary: Wherever Rain Boy goes, rain follows, and when he is invited to Sun Kidd's birthday party the other children complain that his presence is ruining their fun; now Sun Kidd is hiding in her room because she is upset by her friends' behavior, and an apparently an endless storm has descended on the world--until they all discover that something wonderful happens when rain and sun finally get together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2020
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Summary: "In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRISteel, Danielle
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEFuller, Claire
Summary: "In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FULHoneyman, Gail.
Summary: "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Honeyman 2017Honeyman, Gail.
Summary: "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC HONHoward, Abby
Summary: In this collection of literary slice-of-life horror, five stories explore what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace and connection in the world of monsters and darkness. An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected -- and unsettling -- visitor, throwing her quiet life into a long-buried mystery. An isolated backwoods family stumbles into good fortune for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 HOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HOWKent, Minka
Summary: "Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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Summary: "As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction StroutSummary: In this atmospheric, nerve-straining chiller, two young twins confined to an isolated country house transform their resentment towards their mother into a fatal illusion about her identity. In the heat of the summer, a lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: A successful businessman is forced to confront his troubled past as he isolates himself on a dilapidated sailboat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Film Co. 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIDAdams, Sean
Summary: At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits in a vast expanse of ice and snow. Once a thriving research facility, its operations were abruptly shut down after an unspecified incident, and its research teams promptly evacuated. Now it's home to a team of three caretakers, Gibbs, Cline, and their supervisor, Hart, and a single remaining researcher named Gilroy, who is feverishly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAGazi, Leesa
Summary: Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: C FIC GAZGoodman, Carol
Summary: When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMiller, Nathaniel Ian
Summary: "In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021