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42) Some can see
Author
Series
Northern Michigan Asylum volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening? On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows. In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary’s body. ...
43) Call me Zelda
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil, and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity. When Zelda is committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in 1932, vacillating between lucidity and madness in her...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Outside London behind a stone wall stands Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, recently-married Anna Palmer becomes its newest arrival, tricked by her husband into leaving her home, incarcerated against her will and declared hysterical and unhinged. With no doubts as to her sanity, Anna is convinced that she will be released as soon as she can tell her story. But Anna quickly learns that liberty...
49) My Own Love Song
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Still recovering from unimaginable tragedy, wheelchair-bound singer Jane (Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger) and her good friend Joey (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker) embark on an unforgettable road trip through the Deep South to ultimately find the son she was forced to give up for adoption. Two-time Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, Madeline Zima (TV's Californication) and Elias Koteas (Shutter Island) co-star in this moving story of redemption....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Klee's father was the center of his life. He introduced Klee to the great museums of New York City and the important artists on their walls, he told him stories made of myths and magic. Until his death. Now, forced to live in the suburbs with his mom, Klee can't help but feel he's lost all the identifying parts of himself-- his beloved father, weekly trips to the MoMA, and the thrumming energy of New York City. That is until he...
Author
Series
Frank Clevenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A riot occurs in a mental asylum in Massachusetts led by a doctor, incarcerated after being framed as a serial killer of women. Police call in a psychiatrist to talk the doctor into surrendering, unaware the psychiatrist is the one who framed him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It all began with trying to fly. After jumping off the roof of his house in the middle of the night, Daniel Kim wakes up far from Neverland, his reprieve from the real world. Thrust into a mental health hospital and then into a brand-new high school, he struggles to hold onto reality while haunted by both his very-present past and his never-present parents. But when he joins Cranbrook Preparatory's cross-country team, he starts to feel like he's...
Author
Series
Signet books volume T2240
Pub. Date
[1962]
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Description
An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.