Telling a white lie that makes his coworkers believe he has a loving family at home, a lonely man stuck in a thankless public-health job falls in love with a new coworker who challenges his secrets.

A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.

En una ciudad portuaria asolada por una plaga misteriosa, una mujer intenta descifrar por qué su mundo se desmorona. No es sólo el acecho de la enfermedad y la muerte, las algas y los vientos pestíferos, los amasijos rosáceos que son ya lo único que se puede comer, sino el colapso de todos sus vínculos afectivos,la incertidumbre, la eclosión de una soledad radical. Con una prosa inquietante y rica en hallazgos poéticos, Fernanda Trías construye...

"When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie's most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness...

"A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who are on the other side of the mural, of loved ones lost...

Amy Harney has a job as a chambermaid for the summer, but on August 25, she will take the exam to become an EMT (third time's the charm!) and finally move on with her life. In the meantime, she doesn't mind scrubbing toilets immaculately clean or tucking the sheet corners just so. In fact, she tells herself that her work is a noble act of service to the rich guests at the yacht club. Amy's profound isolation colors everything: her job, her aspirations,...

"One day, two dead people meet Seoho just before crossing the river of oblivion. In order to become a phoenix, one trades places with Seoho, who needs a sip of hot blood from a thousand people, and returns to the town where he lived in exchange for getting to be in the town for 39 days. However, their appearances are not the same as when they were alive, so they cannot walk outside. The two characters, who had been hotel chefs, spend forty-nine days...

"A fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one womańђةs unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save"--

A girl befriends a monster and learns about loneliness, friendship, community, and coping with loss.