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21) The moth girl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Anna is a regular teenaged girl. She runs track with her best friend, gets good grades, and sometimes drinks beer at parties. But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious...but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease. This begins a series of trips to the hospital that soon become Anna's norm. She's diagnosed with lepidopsy: a rare illness that causes symptoms reminiscent...
22) Acas?, my home
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows an off-the-grid Romanian family, consisting of two parents and their nine children, who, after living for twenty years in the wilderness, are forced to move to the city.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
xvii, 409 pages ; 21 cm
Description
After spending months as a fire lookout on a remote mountain, Jack Duluoz returns to his life in San Francisco and discovers how his isolation has affected his life. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it.
24) Meredith, alone
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone. . . She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door. ....
25) Team human
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Team Human is a manifesto--a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together--not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money,...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and longtime friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. They will not emerge unscathed"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
"In Them, bestselling author and U.S. senator Ben Sasse argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, our crisis isn't really about politics. It's that we're so lonely we can't see straight-and it bubbles out as anger..."--Amazon.com.
28) Social bullying
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Discusses the reasons why social bullying occurs, and looks at strategies to confront and prevent it.
Author
Publisher
Dutton BOOKS, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Lew and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Eighteen-year-old Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
373 pages
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
33) Carrie
Author
Formats
Description
Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.
34) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, Cole volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample to help scientists develop a cure
35) And then I go
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bullied and alienated by their peers, junior high school friends Edwin and Flake come up with a life-changing plan for their revenge.
36) Sibel
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mute woman living in a Turkish countryside and shunned by the villagers crosses paths with an injured fugitive and secretly nurses him back to health.
Author
Description
Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself, to be "invisible." In her isolation, books are her refuge...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.
40) A silent voice
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A socially outcast teenage boy seeks to make amends with a deaf girl he bullied in elementary school, leading to her transfer and his loss of friendship.
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