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Coelho, Paulo.

Summary: "Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006

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Coelho, Paulo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COE

Swarthout, Glendon

Summary: Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SWA

Plath, Sylvia.

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PLA

Palahniuk, Chuck.

Summary: Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAL

Donlea, Charlie

Summary: Inside the walls of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont's students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don't let your candle go out--unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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