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41) Ruby in the sky
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Ruby Moon Hayes, twelve, and her mother move to tiny Fortin, Vermont, Ruby is surprised to make friends at school and in the neighborhood, where a reclusive lady hides a huge secret.
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment]
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
43) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
This previously unpublished novel from cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love, follows Sally Gunnar, a reclusive woman whose only companions are goldfish, a garden toad and a door-to-door salesman, as she broods over her deepest regrets: failed romances, body issues and her wayward early twenties.
45) Jasper Jones
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
Author
Series
Seaside knitters mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The Seaside Knitters for Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, band together to prove the innocence of one of their own, after Cass Halloran is accused of murdering a local fisherman.
Author
Description
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in...
Author
Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Description
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he?s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he?s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than...
49) Touchstone
Author
Series
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named . . . Once studied by British intelligence for his excruciating sensitivity to the world’s turmoil, Bennett Grey has withdrawn from the world–until an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to assess Grey’s potential as a weapon...
Author
Description
"'Tis the season for romance, second chances, and Christmas cheer with this new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness,...
51) Gideon Falls
Author
Series
Gideon Falls volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherwordly buidling that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the city's trash. The other: a washed-up Catholic priest, finding his place in a small town that hides dark secrets. Neither of them are prepared for what's...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment Llc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mutually beneficial friendship develops between a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has lived for forty years as an eccentric recluse and a young African American writer whose athletic skills and high test scores have enabled him to attend a Manhattan prep school.
53) The real boy
Author
Formats
Description
"A shy boy named Oscar who works as the hand to a powerful magic worker becomes the only person who can save his village from an evil monster"--
54) Under the egg
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
56) Carmilla
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine). Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires. Inspired by the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Joseph...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
Author
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Formats
Description
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jump start her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
60) Italian shoes
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
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