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Lost night files volume 1
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Seven months ago Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers-- strangers to each other-- stayed at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire destroyed the hotel-- and left the women with no memory of their time there. Now they cohost a podcast, The Lost Night Files. Receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum. Ambrose Drake is certain he's a witness to a murder, but everyone thinks he's having...
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[2012]
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Put on trial by her slaveholder husband and convicted of madness by a Virginia judge, Iris Dunleavy is sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a good wife. But Iris knows her husband is the true criminal; she is no lunatic, only guilty of violating Southern notions of property. A pompous superintendent heads this asylum populated by wonderful characters, including his self-diagnosing twelve-year-old son, a woman who swallows anything in sight, and...
4) The asylum
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2013.
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After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.
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2017.
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Transferred to a famous asylum after being arrested for his wife's murder in fin-de-siecle Paris, a man with an eidetic memory is investigated by a doctor and a police officer who discover links between the bizarre crime and the highest and lowest establishments in France.
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
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2019.
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1908. Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken...
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[2020]
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Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen older sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morening Luella is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan...
10) The Reckoning
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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Ravensmoore chronicles volume 1
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c2011
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Madeline Whittington finds herself attracted to Devlin Greyson, the Earl of Ravensmoore, the man she thinks is responsible for her father's death, but after she rescues an inmate from the local asylum, she discover secrets about the asylum that may explain mysteries concerning her family.
12) Asylum
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 6
Pub. Date
1997
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Oliver Metcalf, plagued by painful headaches, finally comes to the realization that the evil sweeping through the small New England town of Blackstone originates with him and his ties to the old Blackstone Asylum.
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 2
Pub. Date
1997
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The evil unleashed with the wrecking of the old Blackstone Asylum touches the family of bank president Jules Hartwick when he receives the mysterious gift of a silver locket.
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 5
Pub. Date
1997
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When Ed Becker decides to salvage an antique desk he found in his attic, he discovers some old photographs and a stereoscope that allows him to see the photos in three dimensions, but when he begins to study the pictures, he discovers a horrifying secret that his family has been hiding for years.
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 4
Pub. Date
1997
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The evil unleashed with the wrecking of the old Blackstone Asylum extends into the life of newspaper editor Oliver Metcalf who, while researching a story on the facility, finds a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief which he presents to Rebecca Morrison.
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
1997
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The slam of the wrecking ball into the stone walls of the Blackstone Asylum has unleashed a terrible evil on the unwitting residents of Blackstone, New Hampshire which begins to make itself known with the mysterious delivery of a beautiful antique doll to the home of building contractor Bill McGuire.
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Everlife volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Tenley (Ten) Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll live after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime...
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2019.
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"A novel set in Czechoslovakia in 1935, in which a brilliant young psychiatrist takes his new post at an asylum for the criminally insane that houses only six inmates--the country's most depraved murderers--while, in Prague, a detective struggles to understand a brutal serial killer who has spread fear through the city, and who may have ties to the asylum"--
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"Nobody could accuse Frank Malloy of being a snob. As a former Irish Catholic policeman, he was, in fact, the kind of person snobs usually looked down on. He might be a millionaire now, but lots of people still looked down on him because he'd always be Irish no matter how much money he had. This was why he felt a little guilty about feeling snobbish about the prospective client who had just been escorted into his office. Hugh Breedlove, according...
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Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
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Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum. This collection also features bonus sneak peeks at Asylum, Sanctum, and Catacomb, the novels...