alienation (social psychology)

Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.

A reprint of the controversial 1959 novel about narcotics addict Bill Lee, his travels in search of drugs, and his eventual descent into the nightmarish fantasy world of Interzone. Includes text corrections, and notes and essays by the author.

Bob Jones, an average man in every aspect of his life, is angry and perplexed when he finds himself fading from the attention of his coworkers, but then one day a stranger calls his name, and he learns the possibilities that are open to him as one of a group of people known as the Ignored.

Teen Reid Anderson is pulled into an alternate world filled with misfits and outsiders thanks to a mysterious video game, and learns to question authority and stand up for himself and what he believes in.

Craig Pressgang keeps growing until he no longer fits into the world around him, and, at different stages of his life, three women experience unique relationships with him as he tries to cope with being alienated from everyone he encounters.

Festina Ramos, born with a disfiguring birth mark, always knew she was destined to be an Explorer, a group of misfits who have been judged as expendable by the perfect society of the League of Peoples, but when she is sent on a doomed mission to Melaquin, known as the "planet of no return, " she decides she is not going to quietly accept her fate.

Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.

An anthology of poems by over 150 writers in which they address the topic of aloneness.

A graphic novel about a strange disease that is being transmitted to Seattle's teens during the mid-1970s.