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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...
Author
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...
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Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 422
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1969?]
Physical Desc
21 unnumbered pages : maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Winter (Mark Smith) volume 1
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
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....
7) Boot & Shoe
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
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English
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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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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ruby Raccoon wants to share a perfectly sunny day with her busy woodland friends, she discovers that perfect days can be spent all by yourself.
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Language
English
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"A soulful polemic that challenges the sacred dogma of the digital age--that the more we connect with others, the happier we are--arguing that as our electronic connectedness grows, we are pulled away from the relationships and experiences that give life texture, depth, and meaning"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
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Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.
A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that "interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness." Indeed, most self-help literature still places relationships...
A pre-eminent work in self-help and popular psychology literature, Solitude was seminal in challenging the psychological paradigm that "interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness." Indeed, most self-help literature still places relationships...
16) Solitude: poems
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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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