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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

Cox, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cox 2020

Epstein, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPS

Sowle, Jennifer J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOW

Hughes, Kathryn

Summary: 1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever ... 2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Headline review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hug

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