alienation (social psychology)

The COVID-19 epidemic changed the world virtually overnight. With a sometimes fatal highly contagious respiratory disease spreading from one human being to another, the pandemic led to massive changes in the way people went to school, shopped for food and conducted their work lives. Before the pandemic struck, remote work accounted for only a small percentage of US workdays, just 5 percent, according to WFH Research, the research division of a company that links job seekers to remote job opportunities. But by 2022 the number of work-from-home days had climbed to 30 percent.

"When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger"--Provided by publisher.

"Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn't spoken to anyone in her family since. Ten years later--on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her--Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family's historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings to inherit is for all three adult children to come back and claim it--together. Natalie drives cross-country to Santa Cruz with her willful cat in tow expecting to sign some papers, see siblings Lynn and Jake briefly, and get back to sorting out her life in Boston. But Jake, now an award-winning ornithologist, is missing. And Lynn, working as an undertaker in New York City, shows up with a teenage son. While Natalie and her nephew look for Jake--meeting a very handsome marine biologist who immediately captures her heart--she unpacks the guilt she has held onto for so many years, wondering how--or if--she can salvage a relationship with her siblings after all this time"--Provided by publisher.

"Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy's entire world; the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother. . . only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her"--Provided by publisher.

Moon is convinced that she does not belong to this world: that most of the time she is invisible (unless she stays still too long), that she belongs to the stars, and wants to go back to them--she lives entirely in her imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest her words tie her to a world she rejects.

Gogol is ashamed of his Indian name and when he goes off to Yale, he has it legally changed to Nikhil and throughout his life he feels stricken with guilt and outcast.

Delves into what a young person can do to recognize bullying behavior, develop a coping strategy, and find someone who can help.

A graphic novel adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a young man who faces disgrace and alienation after waking up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle.

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.