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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
3) All alone
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The narrator explains why it is sometimes nice to be alone.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes throughout history. Offering experiments and strategies for overturning our fear of solitude, she to helps us to practice it without anxiety and encourages us to see...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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...
10) Boot & Shoe
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Distant shores
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After twenty-four years of marriage and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jackson Shore have drifted apart.
15) A quiet place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.
16) A hippo's tale
Author
Publisher
R&S Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Hippopotamus loves the solitude of her little beach at the river's edge, but when a monkey begins to fish there, she comes up with a solution to get some peace and quiet that, it turns out, all the other hippos like as well.
17) A whole life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book, an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experience and discussing the observations of poets,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...