The Resource Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley
Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley
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The item Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she's allergic to other humans. After a humiliating near-death experience in high school, Jubilee has become a recluse, living the past nine years in the confines of the house her unaffectionate mother left to her when she ran off to remarry. But now, her mother is dead, and without her financial support, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. One of those people is Eric Keegan, a man who just moved into town for work. With a daughter from his failed marriage who is no longer speaking to him, and a brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son, Eric is struggling to figure out how his life got so off-course. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee, with a unique condition..
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Note
- Includes an excerpt from Before I go
- Isbn
- 9781760294007
- Label
- Close enough to touch
- Title
- Close enough to touch
- Statement of responsibility
- Colleen Oakley
- Subject
-
- Rare diseases -- Fiction
- trueLove stories
- trueSecond chances
- trueMen/women relations
- trueRecluses
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueAdopted children
- Love -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueNew Jersey
- Recluses -- Fiction
- trueBoys
- trueMothers -- Death
- trueFathers and sons
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she's allergic to other humans. After a humiliating near-death experience in high school, Jubilee has become a recluse, living the past nine years in the confines of the house her unaffectionate mother left to her when she ran off to remarry. But now, her mother is dead, and without her financial support, Jubilee is forced to leave home and face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. One of those people is Eric Keegan, a man who just moved into town for work. With a daughter from his failed marriage who is no longer speaking to him, and a brilliant, if psychologically troubled, adopted son, Eric is struggling to figure out how his life got so off-course. Then, one day, he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee, with a unique condition..
- Summary
- A 28-year-old recluse with a unique allergy to physical contact with other people is forced to reenter the world after her mother's death, finding friendship with a 10-year-old troubled boy and love with his adoptive father
- Award
-
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2017
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2017
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- 10545305
- Cataloging source
- NWPL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Oakley, Colleen
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Man-woman relationships
- Recluses
- Love
- Rare diseases
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley
- Note
- Includes an excerpt from Before I go
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059694364
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760294007
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965540336
- Label
- Close enough to touch, Colleen Oakley
- Note
- Includes an excerpt from Before I go
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059694364
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760294007
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965540336
Subject
- trueAdopted children
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBoys
- trueFathers and sons
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Love -- Fiction
- trueLove stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMothers -- Death
- trueNew Jersey
- Rare diseases -- Fiction
- trueRecluses
- Recluses -- Fiction
- trueSecond chances
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