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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...
3) Boot & Shoe
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Marla Frazee has racked up accolades for her charming and heartwarming books, including two Caldecott Honors and a Boston Globe-Horn Bookonor. Boot and Shoe are a pair of puppies who do almost everything together. But when a rascal squirrel gets all up in their business, everything goes topsy-turvy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.”—People
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seeking a retreat from her failing marriage in a remote Scottish island house, Zoe disregards local superstitions about the property's tragic history until her peaceful retreat is disrupted by strange and disturbing events.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
Publisher
Bob Swerer Productions
Pub. Date
[2006], c2004
Language
English
Description
To live in the pristine land unchanged by man....to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed.....to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available... to be at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company.....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The Power of Silence explores the world of silence--a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most underused of all resources--and those who recognize its value. It is based on extensive interviews with those whose business is silence and who understand its creative and therapeutic uses.Graham Turner explores how the desert fathers sought silence and solitude. Psychotherapists talk of the creative value of silence in their practice as do--perhaps...
15) Bertolt
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A loner spends time in an ancient oak tree he calls Bertolt, enjoying birds, animals, and spring storms, and when he finds that Bertolt has died, he plans a special tribute.
16) Leyla
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
17) Foe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human...
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