Lydia is a young, mixed-race vampire living in London. On her own for the first time, she struggles to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger for blood.
Loneliness
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Author:Kohda, ClaireSummary: -
Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
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Author:McFarlane, SherylSummary:In this timeless picture book, an old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea and awaits the whales' return each year to the bay. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:TerKeurst, LysaSummary:
The enemy wants us to feel rejected ... left out, lonely, and less than. When we allow him to speak lies through our rejection, he pickpockets our purpose. Cripples our courage. Dismantles our dreams. And blinds us to the beauty of...
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Author:Goobie, BethSummary:Shadow Council chooses Sally to be their go-fer, and deliver messages of doom to selected targets. How will the other students respond? A tense, complex novel.
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Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well...
- Author:Gilmore, LucySummary:
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the...
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Author:Sedoti, ChelseaSummary:Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't...
- Author:Manuel, JenniferSummary:
Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette...
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Author:Dumas, MarianneSummary:Barabas is a lonely fisherman. Every morning, alone, he goes out to sea on his small fishing boat, throws his net in the water, and hopes to bring some fish home (where no one is waiting for him). Then one day, Barabas discovers...
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Author:Poissant, Alain, Twiss, RobSummary:Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word....
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Author:Kearney, GregSummary:In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portrait of modern loneliness.
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Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:"Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic, and bittersweet magic in these two plays about children growing up Native in a non-Native world. In 'The boy in the treehouse,' Simon pursues a vision quest in an attempt to reclaim his...
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Author:Ouriou, Susan, Wilhelmy, AudréeSummary:Reminiscent of Gaétan Soucy's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Audrée Wilhemy's The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the...
- Author:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSummary:
It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded...
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Author:Levithan, DavidSummary:The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Every Day, now a major motion picture starring Angourie Rice. Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice. For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a...
- Author:Harris, MichaelSummary:
The capacity to be alone - properly alone - is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that garners tangible rewards: It allows us to reflect and recharge, improving our relationships with...
- Author:Radtke, KristenSummary:
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This —a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society. One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021. There is a silent epidemic in...
- Author:Ferguson, GenkiSummary:
Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite--and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. On the eve of...
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