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1969. Kya Clark is the "Marsh Girl" of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world-- until the unthinkable happens. When...
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“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel based on the true story of Henry Stuart’s life, which was reclaimed from his doctor’s belief that he would not live another year.
Henry responds to the news by slogging...
Henry responds to the news by slogging...
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Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Elizabeth and Jack Shore have been quietly drifting apart for years, unable to communicate their mutual unhappiness to each other. They begin to question everything about their marriage and themselves. Situations that have been building for years are now coming to a head. When the sudden death of Elizabeth's father affords her the opportunity to move away from Jack for a while, they both struggle to find their way back to each other and to put their...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A shocking, tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a deep hibernation over the course of a year. 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 East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or...
6) Fireworks
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Winter (Mark Smith) volume 1
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company. He has stayed alive for two winters--hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn's isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach....
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving The Girlfriend stranded at a deserted high school, the story transforms into a twisted combination of the darkest unease, psychological frailty, and a look into the limitations of solitude.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In 1948, a woman in a small Connecticut community finds herself at the center of a complicated love triangle while she anxiously awaits word about her husband, a soldier who has gone missing in France.
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[2015]
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English
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"After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace - until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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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There are run-of-the-mill eccentrics, and then there's ex-detective Charlie Waldo. A onetime LAPD superstar, he now lives in deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than 100 possessions. He's left behind his career and his girlfriend Lorena in penance for a mistep on an old murder case, Lorena, but old ghosts are about to come roaring back. There are plenty of difficult actors in Hollywood, and then there's Alastair Pinch. Alastair...
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Grand Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"[This book] is a collection of stories featuring life's unexpected arrivals and departures. If you like intimate accounts of lives at the crossroads, portrayals of global locales, and well-crafted prose, then you'll love Marylee MacDonald's tales of travel" --Amazon.com.
15) Melmoth: a novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
16) Robinson Crusoe
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English
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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Donovan Legacy volume 3
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
490 pages : geneological table ; 17 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt family saga, as well as a deeply felt meditation on the power of memory, The End of Loneliness explores the invisible forces and currents that can change our lives in an instant, and asks us all to consider, If you spend all your life running in the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?"--
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