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Author
Series
Paul Leibovitz novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse, his life is thrown into turmoil. Less than twenty-four...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Widower King Jozef has been a recluse since he lost his wife five years ago. So he's reluctant at first when Rowan Gray is employed to reform his image. But Rowan makes him feel things he's never felt before--not even for the convenient wife he came to love. A forbidden fling with the American PR expert is one thing...but can he ever hope to make her his queen?"--Back cover.
123) Ruby in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn't...
124) My darling duke
Author
Series
Sinful wallflowers volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miss Katherine Danvers has always been a wallflower. But now with her family on the brink of financial ruin, she finds herself a desperate wallflower. To save her family, she'll do anything. Luckily, she has the perfect plan... She'll impress the ton by simply announcing she is engaged to the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Thornton, Alexander Masters, and secure strong matches for her sisters. No one has heard from the duke in years. Surely he'll...
125) The art of escaping
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mattie, seventeen, seeks out the reclusive Miyu, daughter of a famed escapologist, to indulge her secret desire to learn the craft, it leads to a friendship with classmate Will, who bears a huge secret of his own.
126) Colonyside
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Carl Butler was once a decorated colonel. Now he's a disgraced recluse, hoping to live out the rest of his life on a backwater planet where no one cares about his 'crimes' and everyone leaves him alone. It's never that easy. A CEO's daughter has gone missing and he thinks Butler is the only one who can find her. The government is only too happy to appease him. Butler isn't so sure, but he knows the pain of losing a daughter, so he reluctantly signs...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Val Cameron, a Senior Editor with a New York publishing company, is sent to the Canadian Northwoods to sign a reclusive bestselling author or risk losing her job, she is definitely out of her element. Val is certain she can convince Charles Cable, but first she has to find him. Aided by a float plane pilot whose wife was killed two years ago in a case gone cold, Val's hunt for the recluse becomes even more muddled. When all signs point to Cable...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ronald 'Cheesie' Mack relates events he and his best friend, Georgie, experience as fifth grade comes to an end and their summer plans are drastically changed, due in part to an old, possibly valuable coin that may belong to the mysterious inhabitants of a place they call The Haunted Toad."--Publisher description.
130) A fist or a heart
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elín Jónsdóttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjavík, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen Álfsdóttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in Elín, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their...
131) Sing: Sing 2
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (218 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Sing: A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
Sing 2: The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world. When a small fib is the one thing that attracts a huge investor, each member of the team...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
537 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Anna Fox lives alone a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A "collection of twelve dark academia short stories...In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinister truth is revealed about a missing professor; a forsaken lover uses a seance for revenge; an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair; two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar; horrors are uncovered in an obscure academic department; five hopeful initiates must complete a murderous task and...
135) The great upending
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery.
136) BrindleFox
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"BrindleFox refuses to be a friend, so he has no friends. He never lets anyone into his home, so he doesn't bother to clean it. Moss and ivy weave through his furniture, and weeds and grasses grow on his floors and in his drawers. One morning, he discovers something unexpected—a tree has begun sprouting from his back. Unphased by this development, he continues on with his life, and the tree continues to grow. One day, a strange heron appears...
137) The zombie stone
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 2
Pub. Date
©2021.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a zombie followed August DuPont home one day, he didn't expect her to stick around. But Claudette is in no hurry to leave August's side. And when he decides to go to Croissant City in search of the elusive Zombie Stone, Claudette joins him. It's a good thing she does, because no sooner had August set out than a mysterious white alligator began to follow him. Reptiles aren't the only creatures to look out for, though. When August is reunited with...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Markus Torgeby was just 20 years old when he headed off into the remote Swedish forest to live as a recluse and dedicate himself to his one true passion, running... He lived in a tent in the wilderness, braving the harsh Swedish winters-- for four years. This is his story. During his teenage years, Torgeby turned out to be a very talented long-distance runner. However, while Markus performed brilliantly in training, during competitions he often failed...
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