Parciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSimpson, Mona
Summary: "The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMVann, David
Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANFox, Helena
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: 18-year-old Saoirse can’t wait to leave school – but just before the final exams her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse – even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. She is shunned by her schoolmates and suffers unbearable levels of anxiety, which her useless counsellor does nothing to alleviate. On the night of the prom, everything becomes too much and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLOHenry, Katie
Summary: Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUEde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway?Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH DE LPreston, Natasha
Summary: "A bind-up of two popular novels by author Natasha Preston--The Twin and The Lake"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORHur, Angela Mi Young
Summary: "Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend - an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow - comes to claim her at last.Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erewhon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURRichards, Natalie D.
Summary: Theo's always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He's obsessed over that decision. And it's time. Tonight. At the party on the riverbank, under the old walking bridge, site of so many tales of love and death. Paige has had a crush on Theo since they first met, but she knows her feelings are one-sided. She's trying to move on, to flirt. A party at the river is just what she needs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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Summary: Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions. Now, she's returned home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life. In her mother's shuttered house, an old fear that has haunted Sienna for years rears its ugly head - that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear - that the killer not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPISpindler, Erica
Summary: In her mother's shuttered house, an old fear that has haunted Sienna for years rears its ugly head-that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear-that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake-he's already begun. But are these fears any different from the ones that torment her mother?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SPINavarro, Elvira
Summary: Is literature a kind of therapy -- or is therapy a type of literature? Eliza tries to overcome her fears arising from the oddities of modern life through these two concepts. She is an editor for a large publishing group who often delays payments, forcing her to share her apartment with a strange woman who appears to have no past, which causes Eliza to obsess about knowing it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NAVRendell, Ruth
Summary: In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a palely beautiful woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Two men rent flats in the same house, but their paths rarely cross. Arthur is quiet, 50 and a bachelor. No one knows of the dark lusts that compel him to kill again and again. Anthony is a young student studying psychopathic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RENHooper, Judith
Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015