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New York

Offers advice and strategies based on biblical and practical ideas, for coping with loneliness.

Facing Loneliness

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Jennifer Lauck

A Childhood Lost and Found

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....

Blackbird

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Nevada

My Spirit is Not Religious 

Joni Eareckson Tada

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Texas

Growing Closer to God Through Hurt and Hardship





Personal answers to the difficult "whys" of suffering. New 16-page photo section and illustrations by Joni.

Originally published in 1978, A Step Further is Joni Eareckson Tada's response to thousands of letters she received from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. Joni answers these questions by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in her own life and the lives of others.

A Step Further has been used by individuals, in hospitals and rehab centers, and in scores of countries overseas to bring comfort and peace to those who are suffering. It is available in over 30 different languages.

A Step Further

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A mysterious girl, dubbed The Watcher, spins tales of rescue from her lonely perch above the beach. She closely observes the actions of two people she has never met: a fourteen-year-old boy whose family seems perfect and a handsome eighteen-year-old lifeguard. Their lives become intertwined -- and their troubling truths are revealed.

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Regina Boyd

New Hampshire

5 Keys to Experiencing God's Love and Building Healthy Connections with Others

Our connections with God and others are fundamental to who we are as people. The reality is that often these relationships--especially with our family, friends, and others around us--are less than ideal, and we end up feeling lonely. That loneliness makes us doubt God's promises, our friends and family, and even the idea that we are worthy of love at all. In Leaving Loneliness Behind, licensed Catholic therapist Regina Boyd helps you build the skills you need to have meaningful, rich, and rewarding relationships with God and those around you. Emotional intimacy is the antidote to loneliness, Boyd says. It's about sharing yourself and your feelings more deeply with another person--being vulnerable and trusting through what you say and how you act. So how do we reach emotional intimacy? Boyd identifies five keys: Recognize the potential depths in your existing relationships. Allow yourself to be vulnerable so that true intimacy is possible. Communicate through conflicts in a way that encourages affection, trust, and openness. Acknowledge the past and move toward emotional wholeness. Give of yourself for the sake of the relationship. Each chapter includes a real-life story that illustrates how applying the principles of emotional intimacy can transform marriages, friendships, families, and workplaces. Catholic thought, stories from scripture, and teachings from the Church highlight how our faith connects to our daily actions and exchanges.

Leaving Loneliness Behind

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Vivek H. Murthy

Georgia

The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

The New York Times Bestseller from Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy, MD. "We have a massive, deadly epidemic hidden in plain sight: loneliness. It is as harmful to health as smoking and far more common. And as his gripping stories of the science and suffering make clear, we can do something about it. Together is fascinating, moving, and essential reading."--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal "Together made me rethink much of what I believe about physical health, public policy, and the human condition. By revealing America's epidemic of loneliness--and then offering an array of remedies for the condition--Murthy has done a great service, and made Together the most important book you'll read this year."--Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy's prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety. Loneliness, he argues, is affecting not only our health, but also how our children experience school, how we perform in the workplace, and the sense of division and polarization in our society. But, at the center of our loneliness is our innate desire to connect. We have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another, and to share life experiences. We are, simply, better together. The lessons in Together have immediate relevance and application. These four key strategies will help us not only to weather this crisis, but also to heal our social world far into the future. Spend time each day with those you love. Devote at least 15 minutes each day to connecting with those you most care about. Focus on each other. Forget about multitasking and give the other person the gift of your full attention, making eye contact, if possible, and genuinely listening. Embrace solitude. The first step toward building stronger connections with others is to build a stronger connection with oneself. Meditation, prayer, art, music, and time spent outdoors can all be sources of solitary comfort and joy. Help and be helped. Service is a form of human connection that reminds us of our value and purpose in life. Checking on a neighbor, seeking advice, even just offering a smile to a stranger six feet away, all can make us stronger. During Murthy's research for Together, he found that there were few issues that elicited as much enthusiastic interest from both very conservative and very liberal members of Congress, from young and old people, or from urban and rural residents alike. Loneliness was something so many people have known themselves or have seen in the people around them. In the book, Murthy also shares his own deeply personal experiences with the subject--from struggling with loneliness in school, to the devastating loss of his uncle who succumbed to his own loneliness, as well as the important example of community and connection that his parents modeled. Simply, it's a universal condition that affects all of us directly or through the people we love--now more than ever.

Together

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Kate Hamer

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Novel

• An Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2016 • Costa Book Award for First Novel finalist • Dagger Award finalist Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day go missing. And then one day, it happens: On a Saturday morning thick with fog, Beth takes Carmel to a local outdoor festival, they get separated in the crowd, and Carmel is gone. Shattered, Beth sets herself on the grim and lonely mission to find her daughter, keeping on relentlessly even as the authorities tell her that Carmel may be gone for good. Carmel, meanwhile, is on a strange and harrowing journey of her own—to a totally unexpected place that requires her to live by her wits, while trying desperately to keep in her head, at all times, a vision of her mother … Alternating between Beth’s story and Carmel’s, and written in gripping prose that won’t let go, The Girl in the Red Coat—like Emma Donoghue’s Room and M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans—is an utterly immersive story that’s impossible to put down . . . and impossible to forget. "Kate Hamer’s gripping debut novel immediately recalls the explosion of similarly titled books and movies, from Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, to The Girl on the Train to Gone Girl … "—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip... What’s most powerful here is not whodunnit, or even why, but how this mother and daughter bear their separation, and the stories they tell themselves to help endure it.” —Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You) “Compulsively readable...Beautifully written and unpredictable, I had to stop myself racing to the end to find out what happened.” —Rosamund Lupton (Sister) “Both gripping and sensitive — beautifully written, it is a compulsive, aching story full of loss and redemption.” —Lisa Ballantyne (The Guilty One) "Hamer’s dark tale of the lost and found is nearly impossible to put down.” —Booklist

The Girl in the Red Coat

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Jean Vanier

L'Arche founder Vanier proposes that by opening ourselves to those society perceives as weak, different, or inferior, we can achieve true freedom.

Becoming Human

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1977 Edition

No Longer Lonely

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

Catherine Marshall

Iowa

A Personal Family Story

Meeting God at Every Turn

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Pennsylvania

Story of Arthur Truluv

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E. Lynn Harris

Virginia

A Memoir

The author recounts his life, from his childhood in Arkansas as a lonely closeted gay boy, through his years at the University of Arkansas and employment at IBM, to his hard-earned success as a bestselling author.

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

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California

"Readers of Anne Tyler and Jodi Picoult will appreciate the lyrical prose and expert rendering of the themes of heartbreakk and loss."—Booklist An unforgettable novel about friendship, love and loss. With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson’s stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a presence in Veronika’s life, offering comfort in the form of companionship and lovingly prepared home-cooked meals. Set against a haunting Swedish landscape, Astrid & Veronika is a lyrical and meditative novel of love and loss, and a story that will remain with readers long after the characters’ secrets are revealed.

Astrid and Veronika

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Louis Begley

Michigan

Albert Schmidt, a retired lawyer, copes with the boredom of retirement, the devastating loss of his wife, and his Ivy League daughter's fiance+a7, until an unexpected new love brings the promise of new life. Reprint.

About Schmidt

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Missouri

Little Golden Book

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Linda Olsson

Kentucky

Recently widowed, lonely Lydia Tavernor dreams of taking a lover and, one night, finds herself alone with the reclusive Harry Wescott to whom she poses a question that leads them down a path neither could have ever imagined.

Someone to Cherish

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Jesse Holden

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon





"Incredibly strong and not a little disturbing." --Cory Doctorow, author of In Real Life

Welcome to a new age...the age of the internet.

Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her.

After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to "Evol BBS," a dial-in bulletin board system, and meets a fierce punk named Tina who comes into his life and shakes his entire worldview loose.

Unlikely alliances, first love, and minor crime sprees abound in this teen graphic novel debut about making connections while your world is falling apart.

"Perfectly captures the mystery and wonder of the early days of the internet."  --Andy Baio, author of Waxy.org and co-founder of XOXO

"A rush of love for brave beginnings--of both the early internet and the teens who used it to find themselves and each other." --Eleanor Davis, author of The Hard Tomorrow and How to Be Happy

"A compelling story complimented by pleasingly minimal art that skillfully evokes a sense of loneliness and isolation. " --Savanna Ganucheau, co-creator of Bloom

"A sharp and authentic wild ride that brought me back to my teenage years as a punk with a dial-up connection." --Kevin Panetta, co-creator of Bloom

"A poignant and often hilarious reminder that technology is at its best when it's easing the ache of loneliness and bringing people together."  --Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King

Incredible Doom

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Facing Loneliness

Jennifer Lauck

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My Spirit is Not Religious

Joni Eareckson

A Step Further

James Howe

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Regina Boyd

Leaving Loneliness Behind

Vivek H. Murthy

Together

Kate Hamer

The Girl in the Red Coat

Jean Vanier

Becoming Human

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No Longer Lonely

Kate Hamer

The Girl in the Red Coat

Catherine Marshall

Meeting God at Every Turn

Elizabeth Berg

Story of Arthur Truluv

E. Lynn Harris

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Linda Olsson

Astrid and Veronika

Linda Olsson

Astrid and Veronika

Louis Begley

About Schmidt

Lee Priestly

The Giant Who Wanted Company

E. Lynn Harris

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Danielle Dutton

Margaret The First

Linda Olsson

Astrid and Veronika

Mary Balogh

Someone to Cherish

Jesse Holden

Incredible Doom

Linda Olsson

Astrid and Veronika