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 LEVNobel, Jeremy
Summary: "Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.2 NOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 NOBKamins, 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 KAMGlynn, 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 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: 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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1 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FROMarkovits, Benjamin
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 MARBenaim, Sabrina
Summary: "Sabrina Benaim has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, in seventy-five original poems, she dives into emotional, relatable territory: grief over a relationship's end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious illness"--Page...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BENGfrörer, Julia
Summary: A vision-impaired, Victorian spinster in need of primitive cataract surgery has little time for herself between needing to take care of her demanding invalid sister-in-law, and investigating her brother's mysterious nighttime activities. To escape it all, she engages in a sexual relationship with a haunted mirror in her bedroom. Julia Gfrörer's third graphic novel is another revitalizing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HALGudenkauf, 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 GUDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GUDSummary: 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 GOOFuller, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC FULCopies Available at Peninsula
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, Call number: 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: Friends of Friends of Friends: Defining and Building Community is a project by Lee Fearnside, who is the artist and editor of O Relentless Death , and here she delves into our human need for community and what community means in the current era, in an time where people are increasingly isolated and more lonely than ever. Over the course of four years, Lee interviewed people from different walks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chimera Projects 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 FRIAlexander, Claire
Summary: "Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone. . . She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEGoldstyn, Jacques.
Summary: This is a charming, touching story about an imaginative boy whose best friend is an oak tree named Bertolt. The boy admits to being an outlier among his peers, but insists that while he is alone, he is never lonely. Being independent suits him, and he considers his difference to be his advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Fiction Goldstyn 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOLGriffiths, Rachel Eliza
Summary: "New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters-Ezra and Cinthy-grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIHarmel, Kristin
Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021