Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation, which they ensure through an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic. But one day, a stranger...
Social isolation
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- Author:Soucy, Gaetan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, originally published in French as La Petite Fille qui Aimait Trop les Alumettes, dominated the bestseller lists and captured major media attention when it appeared in Quebec. It was the first...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children...
- Author:Rummel, ErikaSummary:
There are many forms of isolation, and Ellie is becoming an expert on them: unloved and ignored as a child in Vienna, up against cultural barriers in Canada, holed up in a cabin in the north. What are the effects of isolation on the...
- Author:Rushkoff, DouglasSummary:
"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."'Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...
- Author:Anderson, Laurie HalseSummary:
The first ten lies they tell you in high school.
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the... - Author:Rose, Julie K.Summary:
Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author's great-great-aunts. Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their...
- Author:Smith, ZadieSummary:
Four Londoners--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as...
- Author:Moreland, MelanieSummary:
A globe-trotting bad boy chases the one that got away in this addictive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Contract.
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
- Author:Price-Thompson, TracySummary:
Juanita and her best friend Scooter are both frustrated in life and love--Juanita because her light skin makes it tough to fit in, and Scooter because he is gay. When they meet two fine-looking Puerto Rican men, their lives head down...
- Author:Grigorescu, AlexandraSummary:
An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama. Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a...
- Author:Meg MundellSummary:
Black Glass reveals a first-world city increasingly dominated by surveillance, segregation and civil unrest. Tally and Grace are sisters living an itinerant life on the outskirts of society, being dragged from one no-hope town to the...
- Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
In 1850s Missouri, the religious Bethel colony is resolved to remain pure in the midst of a tainted and sinful country. However, Emma Wagner, young and independent, is at odds with the community's submissive society. Learning to...