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Author
Language
English
Description
Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home, to help wash the day's cares away. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Andrew didn't mean for the misunderstanding to happen, yet he's become trapped in his own white lie. The fantasy of his wife and two kids has become a pleasant escape from his lonely one bedroom with only his Ella...
43) Friends
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl from a faraway place begins her first day at school. She doesn't speak the language and she looks different. She just doesn't fit in. But one day, she makes an unexpected friend, a squirrel! Then a rabbit joins them. Soon the girl's fuzzy woodland friends are followed by human ones and school becomes more fun!"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Penelope Shadow is a smash overnight success upon publication of her fourth novel, yet is happy being and living alone, until a charming cook-waiter-busboy confides his own loneliness and accepts employment in her household.
45) How to be alone
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cameron + Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An uplifting tale of unlikely friendship. A pig seeking solace and a breathtaking vista in his home high above the valley, is crestfallen when a duck moves in to spoil his view -- until he realizes what he's been missing.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
50) Wolf cub's song
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition hardcover.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
It's a dark night. Wolf Cub feels lonely and sad. Can she overcome her fear and find her voice to sing for Grandmother Moon?
51) Alone like me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Liling moves from her home in the mountains of China to the big city, her parents cannot afford to send her to school, and she spends her days with her mother, wishing she had a friend--until she sees a girl in a yellow coat, who lives in the next building, comes from a different mountain, and is happy to be Liling's friend.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Five chicks whose mothers have left them to look for grain keep together as they worry about whether their mothers will ever come back and whether the fox will get them.
53) Squish Rabbit
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely little rabbit wants to make a friend.
54) Why not?
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A solemn man who is lonely gets a cat for company, but one thing leads to another and soon he gets a wife as well.
55) I love to cuddle
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lola the hamster is lonely when her parents go out, so she builds an island of soft, snuggly things to make herself feel better.
56) The other goose
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Katerina the goose sees another goose in the side of Mr. Buswell's shiny car and wishes it would come join her in the town pond.
Author
Series
Dragon (Dav Pilkey) volume 1
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
[New edition].
Physical Desc
51 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried."--
Author
Language
English
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the construction of their dream cabin on an isolated Alaskan island is interrupted by an early Arctic winter, Gary and Irene find their marriage unraveling as they become stranded with their daughter, Rhoda, who watches helplessly as her parents drift further apart.
60) Pandora
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pandora the fox lives alone in a junk yard. She's depressed and has no contact with the outside world. Then, she rescues a blue bird. As she nurses him back to health, the bird collects seeds and trinkets for her. One day, the bird grows strong enough to fly away, but the garden seeds he brought begin to transform Pandora's landscape"--
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