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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a violent crime she has no memory of committing. As she tries to make sense of her recent past, she recalls very little. But she still remembers wartime in Yugoslavia. There she and her lover risked everything to carry out dangerous work resisting the Germans--a heroic campaign in which many brave comrades were lost. After that, the trail disappears...
82) Mad love
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Harleen Quinzel witnesses her father being beat up by thugs when she is seven years old. Years later she is able to put her past behind her and pursues a career in psychiatry. Assigned to Arkham Hospital, she will discover The Joker and begin her own metamorphosis into supervillain Harley Quinn.
83) 17 & gone
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
Author
Series
Will Anderson novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume are called to Eloise Insane Asylum outside of Detroit, where Elizabeth's cousin Robbie, a patient, is accused of murder. Elizabeth is convinced of his innocence and begins her own dangerous investigation of the crime with the help of Anderson and Detective Riordan --
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future--until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her. 1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora,...
88) The listeners
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh's police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to the breaking point. She's been called to Deepwell psychiatric hospital in the Scottish borders to interview a patient who has confessed to the murder of one of the hospital's psychotherapists. The confession is vividly detailed, but for a man locked in a secure ward and under 24-hour surveillance, it is also utterly...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes insanity is the sanest response to an unbearable reality.It's 1958 when Emilena Lamb, with no prior history of medical or mental problems, arrives at Bridgeton Psychiatric Hospital in a catatonic stupor. Sam Atkins, the psychiatrist who admits her, is baffled. Emilena's husband insists she's always been the perfect wife and that theirs is a very happy home, which interviews with friends and family seem to support.So what happened to Emilena?When...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ephraim Ligget craves isolation. The psychologist's past has followed him wherever he goes. When Ligget was still a teenager, his parents died in a house fire that left him physically scarred. The PTSD and survivor's guilt he carries have stopped him from forming a connection with anyone. It's better to have no one in his life than to be viewed as a freak. Jennifer Stanley lived in her own kind of isolation until a shocking crime ripped her family...
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