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No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office....
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English
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He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance — and nothing less than destiny — has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
258 p.
Language
English
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Trondś friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day--an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old...
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English
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In 1819 England, "evidence from a mysterious death takes Benjamin to an island on the Thames. There Isabelle is trapped by fear and a recurring dream about a man's death. Or is it a memory? When a second death brings everyone under suspicion, she realizes her island sanctuary will never be the same"--
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English
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Many of us are living with the sense that things are not right with the world and are in a state of spiritual PTSD. Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some experts, and her personal journey, Wilson offers a hopeful path forward to the life we love.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another ... They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxix, 289 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Psychiatrist and family therapist Julie Holland dives into the neuroscience of connection and helps us to understand how we've lost touch with a basic human need and how we can get it back"--
9) Arctic
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a man becomes stranded after an airplane crash, he must decide whether to remain in his makeshift camp or to venture through the unknown in hopes of survival.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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342 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered no velist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade, Dora spins stories to ward off her end. From New Delhi to New York, Copenhagen...
11) Team human
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English
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"Team Human is a manifesto--a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together--not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money,...
12) Acasa, my home
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Follows an off-the-grid Romanian family, consisting of two parents and their nine children, who, after living for twenty years in the wilderness, are forced to move to the city.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended--for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well--into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain...
14) Speak : the
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with...
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English
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"When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into [an] ... exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another"--
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits in a vast expanse of ice and snow. It's home to a team of three caretakers--Gibbs, Cline, and their supervisor, Hart--and a researcher named Gilroy, who is feverishly studying the sensation of coldness. The work isn't thrilling, but for Hart, it's the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to hone his leadership skills and to become the beacon of efficiency he always knew he could be. There's...
18) Wilson
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Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
77 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells a single, complete story of a bitterly lonely man named Wilson, but it does so in tiny bites. Each page is a stand-alone vignette, in the familiar newspaper comics rhythm of setup, setup, setup, punch line. Wilson's solipsistic despair is expressed incisively and cleverly, taking Wilson through a search for his ex-wife, Pippi, who has become a prostitute since leaving him, and their daughter, put up for adoption years earlier.
19) Beast
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Series
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about now that I have spend a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back...
Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country. What he has left behind we don't quite know. What he faces is a battle with himself, the elements, and with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision. A creature that will become an obsession..."
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she spent the last several years living on her own, but unable to move beyond her past--especially the disappearance of her twin brother Andy when they were sixteen. With her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house she has avoided for years ... [When] the...
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