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Kesey, Ken.

Summary: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1962

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KES
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KES

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Kes

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 2012

Kesey, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008

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Dick, Philip K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIC

VanDeWeghe, Richard

Summary: In the 1950s, in a small town in northern Michigan, a state mental hospital recognized for its humane patient care is increasingly threatened by a mysterious collusion of local antipathy and state politics. What begins as chronic vandalism soon spirals to physical assault. Struggling to make sense of the mysterious events, psychology intern Henry Merchartt wrestles with his evolving ethical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC VAN

Brady, A. F.

Summary: As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Mejia, Mindy

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJ

Kelly, Erin

Summary: Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

DeWitt, Jasper

Summary: "In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEW

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