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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger’s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their...
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of what at first seems to be acute schizophrenia, but worsens until they believe it is actually demonic possession, as they become the center of a reality TV show.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An exposé of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem, examines how inmates are denied treatment, and suggests a more humane approach.
13) Unless
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Language
English
Description
Novelist Reta Winter's idyllic life is shattered when her eldest daughter abandons her life to sit on a gritty street corner with a sign reading "GOODNESS" around her neck, a situation that prompts Reta to uncover what drove her daughter to her new existence.
14) The key
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sarah is drawn to the now abandoned Ambergate Hospital. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who entered Ambergate fifty years earlier. The shocking contents, untouched for half a century, will lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy and lost love, and the chance to make an old wrong right.
15) Moby-dick
Author
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
17) Joker
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mentally ill comedian Arthur Fleck is mistreated by the town of Gotham City, which leads to his downward spiral, bringing him face-to-face with his alter-ego known as the Joker.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers a carefully researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in the United States, focusing specifically on schizophrenia, the taboos that compromise mental health care, and the way the disease has devastated the author's own family.
19) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator’s psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows 20-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
20) His father's son
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of his father's attack on his mother, writer Steve Nye visits the psych ward and is baffled by his father's eerily calm beliefs that contradict the doctor's diagnosis.
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