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"Daniel travels through America's countryside, creating astonishing crop circles that leave communities mystified. But when a dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a community struggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years. For fans of Phaedra Patrick and Fredrick Backman, this astonishing...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an...
3) Someday
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Every day volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
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English
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When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
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2022.
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English
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"Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner--all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is--she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner...[and]suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that's seasonally appropriate. But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale--or one's past--can never be tamed once unleashed"--
5) Looking up
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown"--Title verso page.
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"Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list...
7) The outsider
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In the world of video game Minecraft, Jeremy lives in the biggest city in the Overworld, surrounded by tall buildings, redstone wonders, and many people, but still he feels lonely and wants a friend.
8) The wall
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"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
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English
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When twelve-year-old MJ signed up for seven weeks at Camp Mon Mon Lake, she thought her best friend was going too, but now she feels like an extra wheel--things get a little better when another new girl, Zoe, arrives, but then MJ reveals the secret that Zoe is anxious to hide, and MJ suddenly feels very isolated and lonely.
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[2022]
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English
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Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
11) Cien cuyes
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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En un barrio residencial de Lima con vistas al mar languidecen unos ancianos de clase acomodada. Frasia, acuciada por sus necesidades econo?micas, pues tiene que sacar adelante a su hijo Nico, se ha ido convirtiendo en compan?i?a imprescindible para algunos de ellos. Si consiguiera juntar diez cuyes, el dinero para comprar diez conejillos de Indias, podri?a, segu?n le dijo siempre su ti?o, empezar una nueva vida. Asi?, todos los di?as cruza la ciudad...
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2022.
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English
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"A multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about her life as a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election from playwright Olivia Wenzel. A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall--and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience. She and her boyfriend are hanging out by a lake outside Berlin--and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she is having sex with a stranger...
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HL 590L
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"What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year. Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run, and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam. Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with...
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Series
Invisible kingdom trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A lonely young prince finds a way to escape the palace and experience the real world.
15) After they came
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Jonathan Tuckerman, a Los Angeles man down on his luck and truly alone in life, decides to mark his 70th birthday by drowning himself in the Pacific Ocean. Instead, he inadvertently becomes the worlds “Wonder Man” after a pair of extra-terrestrial visitors from the Pleiades interdimensional star system appear in a giant spacecraft, pluck him from the sea, and present him to the media and the world as their sole “Ambassador to Mankind.” Jonathan's...
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