Springer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRRodale, Maya
Summary: "Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODSummary: Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Erickson, J. R.
Summary: "Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion. The curtains billow despite the still day, and in the dark, shadowy rooms lie a secret kept under lock and key for two decades. The cursed, however, do not simply stay dead and buried. Twenty years ago, Liv did a horrible thing. Now the past seeks to right those wrongs. Skeletal fingers reach into her dreams. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUESummary: A psychiatric nurse begins to question the line between fantasy and reality when he begins to lose his own sanity while working at a mental health facility in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAKErickson, J. R.
Summary: It's the start of summer vacation in 1983. Twelve-year-olds Ashley and Sid are excited for three months of swimming at the pit, playing arcade games, and getting lost in the woods. But the woods aren't safe. Kids are going missing in their small town. One of them has been found dead. The cops are indifferent, the parents are clueless, and a summer of fun is slowly turning into a summer of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIMurphy, Stacie
Summary: "Amelia Matthew has done the all-but-impossible, especially for an orphan in Gilded Age New York City: along with her foster brother Jonas, she has parleyed her modest psychic talent into a safe and comfortable life. But safety and comfort vanish when a head injury leaves Amelia with a dramatically-expanded gift. After she publicly channels an angry spirit, she finds herself imprisoned in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURErickson, J. R.
Summary: "More than a decade ago, six kids witnessed unspeakable horror. Not all of them lived to tell. Riza is no longer that kid--troubled, angry, and filled with secrets. She's grown up, and when she stumbles upon an on-line forum about the shuttered Northern Michigan Asylum, she tries to pretend it never happened--not the years of experimentation, nor the strange midnight writings, and most of all,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2020
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Summary: "There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later ... the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJPatterson, James
Summary: My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the answer she's looking for? 1347: Hannah and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATSummary: A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SHOErickson, J. R.
Summary: Eleven years ago today, Bette and Crystal's mother died. The sister observe the day each year with a visit to her grave followed by dinner. As Bette stands in the forlorn cemetery, large oaks watching in silent contemplation, Crystal does not arrive. Flummoxed, though it's too early to panic, Bette embarks on the usual calls and stops in search of her free-spirited sister. However, minutes soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIMcPherson, Catriona
Summary: The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day. She can try to ignore the sounds that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Inc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPFord, Michael Thomas
Summary: In this much-anticipated follow-up to Suicide Notes, Jeff, who is now home from the psych hospital after a suicide attempt, returns to school, feeling stronger and more comfortable being his true self, but finds it hard to come back to an old life when he has a new perspective on it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORRoux, Madeleine
Summary: "Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROUKesey, Ken.
Summary: A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KES2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KES
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 2012Epstein, Jennifer Cody
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPSCox, Michelle.
Summary: "A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl. . . When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing people of their valuables. What begins as an open and shut case becomes more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cox 2020Dick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICMcFadden, Freida
Summary: Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Freida McFadden] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Higgins, F. E.
Summary: The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGSowle, Jennifer J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010