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Author
Series
Lonely hearts volume 1
Language
English
Description
"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...
3) Love, Holly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since an accident three years ago, Holly has been part of a lonely-hearts letter-writing club for the holidays. The tradition is something she has come to treasure: Each December, she writes to a stranger who is also spending Christmas alone and receives a letter from another lonely person. Usually, the letters go unanswered. That's the point--the letters are anonymous, and the sender writes whatever is in their heart. But this year, the letter...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A psychological suspense novel about two young women who have recently moved to New York City: Alice, who is brutally murdered, and Ruby, who finds Alice and investigates her death"--
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe. She may be dead but that doesn't mean her story is over....
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (62 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Grant receives an invitation to a special showing of a horror movie at midnight, he arrives to an empty theater where strange events transpire.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amy Harney has a job as a chambermaid for the summer, but on August 25, she will take the exam to become an EMT (third time's the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime, she doesn't mind scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact, she tells herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy's profound isolation colors everything: her job, her aspirations,...
10) The music shop
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled....
Author
Language
English
Description
"An evocative new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Beware the wrath of a woman scorned-she just might save the world. Lillie knew the empty nest would be hard when her son left for college, but she had no idea of the full extent to which her world would come crashing down-until her husband announced out of the blue that he was in love with another woman, and he would be leaving, too. Besides the fact that this announcement...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences."--
13) The lonely book
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.
14) Lucy's advice
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011, c2003
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even though she thinks Charlie Brown is a hopeless case, Lucy the "psychiatrist" is still willing to give him advice--for five cents a visit.
15) MJ's Camp Crisis
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (90 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
MJ wasn't sold on going to camp to begin with, but after her best friend bales on her, she's even less excited about spending her summer with a mass of overly perky girls. Fortunately, she makes fast friends with her bunkmate Zoe who seems familiar right from the start. Then MJ realizes why; Zoe is the daughter of the lead singer of MJ's favorite band. Should MJ tell Zoe she knows who she is or keep things quiet? Series' large cast of characters provides...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
With his mother on the phone, his father checking e-mail, and his sister playing with her friends, a little boy feels as if he is all alone in the house, and no matter how badly he behaves, no one comes to stop him.
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.
Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.
Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A simple act of kindness brings two unlikely friends together in this profound picture book about the transformative power of friendship. A bear sits in his quiet, colorless home in a forgotten place. He feels invisible; no one comes to see him, and he spends his days alone. Then someone moves in next door. Madame Odette is sound and sunshine, and at first, the bear isn't sure about this colorful new neighbor. But through an act of kindness, the...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
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...