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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S&M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix's reimagining of the mansion of doom in this collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series "The Fall of the House of Usher". From well-loved classics like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" to lesser-known gems such as "Tamerlane" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," these tales and poems have stood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years....
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Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will...
5) Motherthing
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Told through journal entries, a psychotherapist's notes, court records, and more, relates the tale of Carly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death but released to Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a second personality or soul named Kaitlyn, and/or be possessed by a demon.
10) The wildflowers
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English
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Trapped in the middle of her parents' bitter divorce, she hides an unspeakable secret deep inside: she hates them. Now, brought to Dr. Marlowe's therapy group, she's about to meet three other girls who just might understand. STAR...She may never forgive her parents for the pain they have caused her. But in the safety of this new circle of friends, she will finally face the nightmares of her past. JADE...Escaping the madness of a hateful courtroom...
11) Nightingale
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English
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June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be: independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, she's committed to Burrow Place Asylum. Suburbia isn't the only prison for different...
12) Jade
Author
Series
Wildflowers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After listening to Misty and Star tell their stories in their therapy group, it is Jade's turn to reveal her hidden past, and the shameful act that has haunted her for years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A motorist snaps a horrendous photo of a jetliner plunging from the sky. It's last day of full sanity. For John Cruz, the horror began the previous day when he awakened to find himself in unfamiliar surroundings. He learns that he's been in a mental hospital for nearly three years -- confined there for a crime he does not remember, a crime the hospital staff refuses to discuss with him. But then he discovers something even more bizarre. While he...
14) Eyes wide open
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Christy and Austin accidentally stumble into the mental ward of a hospital, are mistaken for delusional patients, and begin to lose their sanity as they receive various treatments, but things are not what they seem to be.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
All Tessa LaRoche wants is to be the most ordinary person on Barrow Island. After a stint in a mental asylum, she's had quite enough of being anything else, thank you very much. But when a commission at her new reporting job forces her into the path of a not-quite-human murder suspect, Tessa finds that the unordinary is not through with her yet. Spirited away by a devilishly charming Nicolai to the Mirror Lands-- a parallel reality manipulated by...
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