Summary: David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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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 LStork, Francisco X.
Summary: Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOSummary: Follows the story of David Haller, a man who believed he was schizophrenic but discovered he might be the most powerful mutant in the world. With help from a team of specialists, David harnessed his unique abilities and learned he had been haunted by a malicious parasite. Now, David is all that stands in the way of Amahl Farouk from attaining infinite and world-ending power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEGShusterman, Neal
Summary: "A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUSummary: Legion follows the story of David Haller, a man who believed he was schizophrenic but discovered he might be the most powerful mutant in the world. With help from a team of specialists, David harnessed his unique abilities and learned he had been haunted by a malicious parasite. Now, David is all that stands in the way of Amahl Farouk from attaining infinite and world-ending power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEGMason, Lizzy
Summary: After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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Summary: "Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERCook, Thomas H.
Summary: Horrified by the suspicious drowning death of her schizophrenic son, Diana exchanges e-mails with her brother that explore clues from ancient murders in order to build a case against Diana's husband, who never made peace with the boy's illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOSummary: A woman's mental health puts her family and her own life in jeopardy, and she is taken from the family. Now her husband must raise a family alone and deal with her schizophrenia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Canvas 2007Summary: Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPICook, Thomas H.
Summary: Horrified by the suspicious drowning death of her schizophrenic son, Diana exchanges e-mails with her brother that explore clues from ancient murders in order to build a case against Diana's husband, who never made peace with the boy's illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOFiler, Nathan.
Summary: Struggling to understand what happened to his brother years earlier after they both snuck out of the house during the middle of the night, Matthew believes he has found a way to bring his brother back by going off his meds, in this beautifully complex story that exposes the awful parts of life and the darkness of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FILAngelini, Josephine
Summary: While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2020
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Summary: Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders--now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTWray, John
Summary: The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believing that the world will end within a few hours and that only he can save it. It's a novel that defies easy categorization, although in one sense it's a mystery, as a detective, Lateef, is on the case, assisted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRASummary: Beautiful orphan Edith Adelton came to the United States as a child to be a companion and tutor to the Hamilton family's young daughter Amy. Though Edith's parentage is a mystery, she has found great happiness with the Hamiltons. When the family's cousin Ida comes to visit, Mrs. Hamilton enlists Edith in a matchmaking plan involving two suitors for Ida. But both men fall for the lovely Edith....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INHDick, Philip K.
Summary: VALIS is a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2011
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Summary: "A captivating, National Book Award-winning novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Laurie Halse Anderson, award-winning author of Speak, calls it "a brilliant journey across the dark sea of the mind; frightening, sensitive, and powerful. Simply extraordinary." Caden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: LP YA FIC SHUWalton, Julia
Summary: "Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALBanasky, Carmiel.
Summary: Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire’s suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2015
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Summary: The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is haunted by memories of places he has never been and manifests skills he's never learned. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves "Infinites" come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real - but they are from multiple past lives. Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock answers in his memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021