James, Rebecca
Summary: When Tim Ellison finds a cheap room to rent in his dream location, it seems nothing more than a wonderful stroke of luck. Despite the fact that the owner of the house, the mysterious Anna London, is unfriendly and withdrawn, he takes it. But when strange and terrifying things start happening in the house at night, Tim wonders if renting the room has been a terrible mistake--until his feelings...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMHarrington, Karen
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HARLockington, Mariama
Summary: On a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. Sadie feels safe. She's been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, and is hopeful better times are ahead. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news, and the two witness a violent incident of police brutality, Sadie's whole world is upended in an instant. Not feeling safe anywhere, Sadie retreats inside her self. When her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOCSummary: A recluse and an overbearing salesman team up to find the perfect burial spot for the recluse's beloved cat, and wind up stranded in Death Valley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY RUBGolden, S. K.
Summary: "It's 1958, and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what's more, it's her father's hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyn's always been good at finding things; she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now she's finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As a "voice stream interpreter," Angela listens to thousands of anonymous audio streams from smart speaker owners, the perfect job for an agoraphobe like herself. While listening to a stream, she overhears a murder taking place and must leave the comfort of her home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KIMSummary: Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and his life, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. His mother tells him he may stay as long as he wants. What begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a house saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMGolden, S. K.
Summary: "New York, 1958. Even though Evelyn Murphy has made progress conquering her agoraphobia by leaving the Pinnacle, she still feels most comfortable in her father's hotel. With Malcolm Cooper, her new boyfriend and fellow employee at the hotel, Evelyn feels prepared for whatever happens next. In this case, it's throwing a big fundraiser with the who's who of New York City. The night is a success,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Lehane, Dennis
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lehane 2017Allen, Charlotte Vale
Summary: Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLGornall, Louise
Summary: Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORBarnes, Linda.
Summary: Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARLehane, Dennis.
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEHRosen, Jane L.
Summary: "The author of Nine Women, One Dress delivers a charming, unforgettable novel about four women, one little lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSFujitani, Ayako
Summary: An aimless artistic couple try to make their names and works known in Tokyo; a homeless person periodically emerges from the Tokyo sewers to terrorize people; an agoraphobe meets a beautiful pizza delivery woman just as an earthquake strikes Tokyo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKGilbert, Victoria
Summary: Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about to discover, a retiree's life can bring new thrills--and new dangers. Cameron "Cam" Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something--an archivist to inventory his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILReichardt, Marisa
Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parentsare divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When renowned psychologist Paul Salkovskis offers three agoraphobics a base from which to battle their fears, each sufferer embraces the opportunity to utilize the professor's "safe house." There's only one problem-getting there. This program illustrates the paralyzing anxiety agoraphobics typically experience when stepping outside their cloistered comfort zones. After Simon, Su, and Archana...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Supported and cajoled by psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist Paul Salkovskis, three agoraphobic Londoners have tentatively confronted their fears-but they still have a huge amount of work to do. This program shows what happens when the experiment moves to the next level. After frantic preparations, Simon, Su, and Archana accompany Professor Salkovskis on a 13-hour airplane flight to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program shows panic attacks as a symptom of other stress-related conditions-specific phobias, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorders-and also as a separate condition. A housewife and businessman tell how panic attacks placed limitations on their daily lives and how they finally sought help and relief. A specialist in behavioral psychotherapy provides professional advice on how to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bug Vs Earth
Contents: City of fallen angels -- Gasoline -- Agoraphobia -- Snakes vs. rats -- Broke -- American dream -- Don't walk these streets -- Other side of the world -- Hell A -- Concrete desert
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BUGIncubus (Musical group)
Contents: Megalomaniac -- A crow left of the murder -- Agoraphobia -- Talk show on mute -- Beware! Criminal -- Sick sad little world -- Pistola -- Southern girl -- Priceless -- Zee Deveel -- Made for TV movie -- Smile lines -- Here in my room -- Leech.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic/Immortal 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK INCDeerhunter (Musical group)
Contents: Cover me (slowly) -- Agoraphobia -- Never stops -- Little kids -- Microcastle -- Calvary scars -- Green jacket -- Activa -- Nothing ever happened -- Saved by old times -- Neither of us, uncertainly -- Twilight at Carbon Lake.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky 0000