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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Annie, her relationship with Duncan over, strikes up an E-mail correspondence with Duncan's idol Tucker Crowe, a reclusive singer/songwriter who has not been heard from in over twenty years, and possibilities abound when Tucker, about to release an acoustic version of his greatest album, is summoned to England--where Annie lives.
4) Alone
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
5) Say hello
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Written when the author was ten years old, tells of a dog and a boy who are both lonely until they are included by others.
6) Netherland
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans -- a banker originally from the Netherlands -- finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with...
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages, 24 cm color illustrations
Language
English
Description
When Little Robot finds a creative solution to his lonliness he gets straight to work on shaping the perfect companion out of metal, and affectionately names him Little Dog.
10) La la la
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands.
11) Hello, Jimmy!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A funny, noisy parrot comes into Jack's world and brings him closer to his dad in an unexpected and moving way"--
12) The lost man
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another's nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...
14) Little Cub
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. paperback edition.
Physical Desc
58 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her owners notice that Poppy the pirate dog is lonely, they decide to get her a friend, but Poppy didn't expect it to be an orange kitten.
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 videodisc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Little Bear finds a cave that is just the right size for him, but at bedtime he starts thinking about Big Bear, all alone in their big Bear Cave.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Caspian lives alone in a lighthouse surrounded by the cold gray-blue sea, longing for a friend; so one day he puts a message in a bottle and floats it away in the sea--but the friend who finds it is someone completely unexpected.
20) When I miss you
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young guinea pig describes situations that make him miss his parents, how it feels to miss them, and what he can do to feel better.
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