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1) Get low
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
2) Island apart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York book editor Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha's Vineyard, and while she goes to the island hoping for solace, strength, and a relaxing place to finish a biography of psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich, she also finds love with a man known as Hermit, whose secret could impact their growing relationship.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human...
4) Pig
Language
English
Formats
Description
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
5) The other
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.
6) Demon seed
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1997, 1973
Language
English
Description
Susan Harris, a woman who lives in self-imposed seclusion, becomes the victim of an artificial intelligence that is obsessed with learning everything there is to know about the flesh.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In her inspiring, vividly composed and always faithful book" (Susan Muto), Karen Fredette describes a world where life is rich in being rather than in having . Selected as a Catholic Book of the Month, Where God Begins to Be fulfills Murray Bodo's observation that "instead of myth fabricated from a few fragments, we have here the details-the nitty-gritty, muddy details-of a hermit's daily living." Karen is a "Seer who brings you along with her, joyfully"...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 1930s housekeeper stars in "an Agatha Christie-like whodunit with touches of Olde World England and a soupçon of romance" ( Booklist ). In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's "ornamental hermit" to live on...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Like Siberia itself, this story is wild, mysterious, full of danger -- and then, quite unexpectedly, captivates you with its beauty. I was so glad I went on the adventure. -- Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of Kill the Boy Band Notes from My Captivity is a sharp, sensitive, and darkly funny novel perfect for fans of Libba Bray's Beauty Queens and Adam Silvera's More Happy Than Not . Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting...
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