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Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experience of loneliness...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxi, 218 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"From one of our country's most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons. In 2013, Rabbi Sharon Brous gave a sermon in which she preached the need-in an era riven by loneliness, social alienation, polarization, and ideological extremism-to reclaim the simple act of showing up for one another. That day marked the beginning of an essential change in the community. Based on that original...
3) Cien cuyes
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In a residential neighborhood of Lima overlooking the ocean, some well-to-do elderly people suffer the deterioration of their lives. Frasia, pressed by her economic needs, and who must work to raise her son Nico, has gradually become a vital companion to some of those older folks. If she could only manage to save up the money to buy ten guinea pigs, she could, as her uncle always told her, start a new life. Thus, every day she crosses the city by...
4) The outsider
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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.
5) Looking up
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
229 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Living alone with her mother in a poorer part of town, Saint—a girl drawn to medieval knights, lost causes, and the protection of birthday pi�natas—sees the neighborhood she has always known and loved disappearing around her: old homes being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops. But when her favorite creaky old toy store is demolished, she knows she must act. Enlisting the help of Daniel 'Chance' McGibbons, a quiet,...
6) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Each morning Donya leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into...
Author
Publisher
B/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Marin no ha vuelto a hablar sobre su antigua vida desde el día que decidió dejar todo atrás. Nadie sabe la verdad. Ni siquiera su mejor amiga, Mabel. Pero incluso a miles de kilómetros de la costa de California, en Nueva York, Marin todavía siente el peso de la tragedia de la que ha tratado de huir. Ahora, meses más tarde, a solas en un dormitorio vacío, durante las vacaciones de invierno, Marin espera. Mabel está a punto de llegar, y con...
9) Break: Break
Author
Series
Click volume 6
Publisher
Clarion Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Description
"Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her...
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