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A fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life. To ensure a lasting peace, The New Society forbids anything that may cause tribal loyalties, including traditional families. Born at the end of the old world, Miriam does not know it is the beginning of a darkly sinister program that will transform this new world and the lives of everyone in it. Eventually, the harmful effects of her research become...
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"An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming...
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Tigger is feeling lonely and curious. He wonders if there are any other tiggers out there. He sets out on an exciting trip to find his true family. In his attempt to find his family he has to deal with some unforeseen consequences, especially when his friends Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo and Rabbit try to help. Includes 2 new adventures.
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The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed...
10) Slapface
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only "friends" being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures....
11) Last days
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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This film is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. Blake is a brilliant but troubled musician whose success has left him in a lonely place. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in his wooded home...a fugitive from his own life.
12) Loverboy
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Emily is a beautiful and brilliant loner obsessed with having the perfect child. Her desperation will drive her to commit shocking and perilous acts, pushing her closer to the edge of sanity.
13) Things they lost
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2022.
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"This astonishing, devastating debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who...
14) The ice garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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When Jess, a girl who is allergic to the sun, sneaks out of her house, she discovers a magical garden made out of ice.
16) Taxi driver
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English
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A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.
Series
Miriam collection volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner, tries to soothe Elizabeth's jilted heart with his blueberry pie. But only after going on a year-long cross-country odyssey does she realize love was right at her doorstep all along.
20) Midnight clear
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As midnight approaches in a small Southwestern town, five lonely strangers randomly cross paths, and in unique and subtle ways, change each other's lives forever. A modern-day parable about how seemingly insignificant acts of grace can make a profound difference.
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