Moshfegh, 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 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: "A celebration of the joy and comfort to be found in alone time and the joy and comfort that a friend can bring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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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: "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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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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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: "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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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIDefoe, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018
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Summary: After twenty-four years of marriage and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jackson Shore have drifted apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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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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Summary: While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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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!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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Summary: "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!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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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!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: "For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSeethaler, Robert
Summary: Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016