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21) Island apart
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Seeking to convalesce from a serious illness and finish a literary project, New York book editor Claire Doheney house-sits an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island, where she falls in love with a mysterious loner who harbors a devastating secret.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
24) Canyon winter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Stranded for six months in the Rocky Mountains following an airplane crash, a 15-year-old boy is taken in by an old hermit who teaches him the ways of the wilderness.
Author
Series
Road to Avonlea volume 3
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Description
Sara and her cousins discover the reclusive Old Miss Lloyd when they go exploring in her old, run-down Lloyd mansion. Sara sets out to discover the secrets behind Miss Lloyd's lonely, reclusive life.
26) Clear: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
27) The last boy
Author
Description
The Last Boy isthe gripping tale of Danny Driscoll, a huggable, enchanting five-year-old boy who, on a normal October afternoon, disappears from his daycare in Ithaca, New York. A search continues through the winter, but few clues come forth to explain the boy's disappearance. Then, as spring approaches without any new developments in the case, a miracle occurs... one that leaves the people of Ithaca with a new set of questions, and a mystery that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests, and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and lore. What are their motives? Religious, spiritual, philosophical? Ethical, aesthetic, psychological? From a love of wilderness to a desire for the anonymity of life as a "hermit in the city." From an inkling about the universe to a desire for radical...
29) Blood Mountain
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Grace and her eleven-year-old brother Carter are watched by a mountain man when they get lost during a strenuous hike on Blood Mountain.
30) Meredith, alone
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Not leaving her house in 1,214 days, Meredith Maggs is kept company by visits from her best friend, her online support group, and her treacherous memories of a traumatizing past, but when the world comes knocking at her door, she must find the courage to answer.
33) Red sky at night
Author
Series
Thorn novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender. By the author of Buzz Cut
34) Backwater
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
35) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
37) Wrack: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
An archeologist searches for a sunken 16th century Portuguese ship off Australia in a bid to prove the Portuguese, not the English discovered the continent. He is about to give up when a murder tells him he is on the right track.
38) Get low
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...