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1) Scrawny cat
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Description
A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
336 p. ;
Description
In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again- and she's not the only one. Harmony seems to be full of people yearning to make a connection. Like funeral director Tyler Wright, who longs to take his relationship with his friend Kate to the next level, but doesn't know how. And Ronelle...
3) Someday
Author
Series
Every day volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When A discovers there are others who wake up in a different person's body every day, A gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale. Includes one fold-out illustration and a recipe for gingerbread cookies.
5) Marty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
Author
Formats
Description
Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Amy Hanley has a job as a maid for the summer, but on August 25, she will take the exam to become an EMT (third time's the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime, she doesn't mind scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact, she tells herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy's profound isolation colors everything: her job, her aspirations, even...
8) Pretty kitty
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Description
In this charming counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat - scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart-and home-for his new feline friends? A counting picture book in rhyme about a lonely old man whose heart is slowly melted by an ever-growing number of kitties hoping to find a home.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.
Author
Series
Angelic intervention volume 8
Formats
Description
Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel's work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year's Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect time to lend a heavenly helping hand. Lucie Farrara and Aren Fairchild meet after bumping into each other--seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"As the Great War rages, an independent young woman struggles to sustain love-and life-through the power of words. It's 1917 and America is on the brink of World War I. After Hensley Dench's father is forced to resign from the New York Times for his anti-war writings, she finds herself expelled from the life she loves and the future she thought she would have. Instead, Hensley is transplanted to New Mexico, where her father has taken a job overseeing...
14) Taxi driver
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Description
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy, he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris.
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Description
"A spare ... [and] bittersweet ... story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future"--
In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the...
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