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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
2) Win
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Windsor Horne Lockwood III novels volume 1
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English
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"Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors - and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" --
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a...
4) Pax
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Series
Pax volume 1
Language
English
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"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter resuced him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on...
Author
Series
Florence Norris mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In its 300-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 the estate. Suddenly everyone wants to visit Mullings to glimpse this mysterious figure. Strange but harmless, thinks Florence Norris, the family's longstanding...
6) Backwater
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English
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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.
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
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English
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"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
9) White bird
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1990, c1966
Language
English
Description
A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
11) Island apart
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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.
13) Purgatory Road
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
15) Blood Mountain
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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.
16) Buck fever
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Joey and his fifteen-year-old sister Philly relate their experiences trying to cope in a family already strained by the mother's extended travel, and pushed further apart by the father's disappointment that Joey is more interested in drawing deer than hunting them.
17) Crossbow
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When fouteen-year-old Matt heads to the remote cabin he built to become a hermit, he encounters Forrest, a man who offers to teach him survival skills in exchange for use of the cabin, but Matt soon has reason to suspect Forrest's ethics.
18) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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.
19) Rotters
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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.
20) Pig
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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.
