Richard Renaldi
Richard Renaldi

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Publisher: Aperture Foundation

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 9781597114301

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"Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers, for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society. -- Provided by publisher."--Publisher's description.

Before We Were Strangers
Before We Were Strangers

Author: Renée Carlino

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-08-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1501105787

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From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

The Strangers
The Strangers

Author: Jacqueline West

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0803736908

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After something crucial goes missing from the strange old house on Linden Street, 11-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it backNput their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both.

Bobby and Mandee's Good Touch, Bad Touch
Bobby and Mandee's Good Touch, Bad Touch

Author: Robert Kahn

Publisher: Future Horizons

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1935274546

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Introduces the topic of sexual abuse, and how children can protect themselves. Includes questions to gauge the child's understanding, and tips for parents.

Fall River Boys
Fall River Boys

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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In the spring of 2000, Richard Renaldi began making frequent trips to the small New England city of Fall River, Massachusetts. Situated just a short distance from the Atlantic coast, Fall River was once at the very center of American textile manufacturing. Renaldi's aim was to photograph the young men of Fall River coming of age amidst an industrial landscape well past its boom years. This extraordinary body of images - both portraits and landscapes - is gathered here for the first time in Renaldi's second monograph, Fall River Boys.

Bobby and Mandee's Too Safe for Strangers
Bobby and Mandee's Too Safe for Strangers

Author: Robert Kahn

Publisher: Future Horizons

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1885477759

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Most children, especially children on the autism spectrum, accept adults' friendliness at face value. Sometimes it can have tragic consequences. Written by a Deputy Sheriff, this book is credited with foiling at least 22 stranger abductions. Characters Bobby and Mandee explain stranger danger in a way that is accessible, but not frightening, for children. Read it to your child and role-play different scenarios. Create a password only you and your child know, label backpacks on the inside (so strangers won't know your name). Strangers can be men or women, old or young. Adults should not touch, give gifts to, or ask for help from children. If they do, don't keep it a secret! Tell an adult! Arm your child with the knowledge that may save his or her life.

The Stranger's Touch
The Stranger's Touch

Author: Kristopher Reece

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Published: 2021-09-26

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13:

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A FEEL GOOD STORY FOR THE SOUL!! Love, Liberty and the Pursuit of Each Other On a cold December night, Mark, an older and very wealthy New York City attorney and Abby, a young struggling waitress and mother of twins, cross paths on a busy New York City sidewalk. When they innocently touch in passing, a strong and mysterious spark ignites between them...setting fate's plan into motion. Neither Mark nor Abby understand this sudden and irresistible sense of belonging to the other. But when they find themselves unable to get the other off their mind, they set out on a sweet, daring and tantalizing adventure to find each other again. As they follow their hearts, they must overcome many challenges, face horrific accidents, experience terrifying flights and deal with death, abandonment, fear, rejection and acceptance. Meanwhile, Mark is dealing with a cold and lonely marriage to Sarah, a selfish, materialistic socialite that is hell bent on spending all his money on exotic vacations with her "secret" boyfriend, while Abby is living a life full of fear from repeated verbal and physical abuse from Ron, her alcoholic and unemployed husband. But that is just the beginning... So, come join Mark & Abby in this fresh, exciting and multi-faceted story and you will find yourself saying, "Just one more page!!"

The Strangers on Montagu Street
The Strangers on Montagu Street

Author: Karen White

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 110154581X

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Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series. With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem. Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack’s mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse—a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola’s reserve and draw her into the family she’s never known. At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted—until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in—with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that’s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...

The Strangers
The Strangers

Author: Katherena Vermette

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-03-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0826366074

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The Strangers, a breathtaking companion to Vermette's bestselling debut The Break, is a fierce exploration of of bonds that refuse to be broken even in the most traumatic of circumstances. Cedar, Phoenix, and Elsie—these are the strangers, each haunted in her own way. Cedar grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and her sister, Phoenix. From a youth detention center, Phoenix gives birth to a baby she'll never get to raise. And Elsie, struggling with addiction and determined to turn her life around, is buoyed by the idea of being reunited with her daughters and striving to be someone they can depend on, unlike her own distant mother. Between flickering moments of warmth and support, the women diverge and reconnect, fighting to survive in a fractured system that pretends to offer success but expects them to fail. Facing the distinct blade of racism from those they trusted most, they urge one another to move through the darkness, all the while wondering if they'll ever emerge safely on the other side.

Last Things
Last Things

Author: C.P. Snow

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0755120132

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The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams.