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1) Boot & Shoe
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Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
2) The wish
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Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Lila lives far away from the rest of the world on a cliff overlooking the sea, and when she wishes upon a star it is only for a bag of flour, but one night she becomes more adventurous.
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xvi, 181 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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When Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This literary collage documents his multifacted explorations. spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating...
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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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210 pages ; 22 cm
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You will be scared. But you won t know why In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. What follows is a twisted unraveling and an unforgettable ending that will haunt you long after the last page is turned. Jake and a woman known only as The Girlfriend are taking a long drive to meet his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake takes a sudden detour, leaving...
5) Gus
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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While enjoying his solitary trek through the barnyard, Gus the gosling finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
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Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
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"En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la “chica de la marisma”. Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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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...
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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271 p. ; 22 cm.
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Misfits Alice and Mattia bond as teens over shared experiences of suffering before mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him far away, a situation that restores their isolation before they meet by chance years later.
12) Walden
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Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932–2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet.
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 21 cm.
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"In [his earlier book] 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in 'Kayak Morning', he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. 'Everybody grieves,' he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of loss. On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy's death,...
15) Leyla
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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.
16) The keep
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From National Book Award finalist Egan comes a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
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In 1925, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006, ©1997.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color, dolby ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cloud Strife struggles with his past and decides to live a solitary life, in a peaceful town with orphans. Then Cloud receives a phone call from a man asking for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj.
19) Leave me alone
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
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