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"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 unpacks our personal and national experience of loneliness...
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"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year. Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run, and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam. Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Young Mouse must pack his things. He's moving to a new home, but his mom won't be there to tuck him in at night. Follow Mouse on his emotional journey of moving to Mama Bunny's foster home, where everything is different fromwhat he's used to. Who eats vegetables for breakfast or forgets to put chocolate chips in the pancakes? Mouse misses his mom and wants to go home. Just when Mouse feels he's all alone, someone comes along and brightens his world"--...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s--a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm... And a man confronts his neighbor...
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Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The old giant at the top of the hill is lonely. He has no one to play games with, no one to read to, and no one to drink tea with. When he ventures into the nearby town, every person and animal screams and hides - except for one girl, Arabella. The two become quick friends and spend the day playing together. But will the giant ever get his cup of tea?" --
10) Violin & cello
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Publisher
EK Books, an imprint of Exisle Publishing Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, music ; 29 cm
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English
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"In a big apartment building two children live next door to each other. One plays the violin. One plays the cello. They play alone. Until, one day, everything changes ... Celebrate the joy of friendship and the magic of music in this glorious story that also features an original duet for young musicians to play!"--
11) Looking up
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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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Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Made for People by author Justin Whitmel Earley guides us into a new understanding of why we need friendship to survive, shows us how we can leave behind loneliness, and provides practical habits that help build the life of deep connection we long for"--
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her...
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