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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...

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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

Thomson, E. S.

Summary: When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Summary: "We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amberjack Publishing 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALL

Roux, Madeleine

Summary: "Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum. This collection also features bonus...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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Wright, Jaime Jo

Summary: Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wright 2019

Parry, Leslie

Summary: "New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Hughes, Linda

Summary: It's 1921, fifteen years after the disappearance of a child, and three women's lives intertwine as a web of lies unravels in a quest to solve the mystery of what happened to the boy. Elizabeth has been in an asylum since the disappearance of her son. Her daughter Meg is determined to find out why and what happened to her brother. And Abby, a Chippewa Indian fortune teller, has insight into...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Deeds Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUG

Hepinstall, Kathy.

Summary: Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband's slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional "rehabilitation" under the eye of a pompous superintendent.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Leary, Ann

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Summary: "It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEA

Nolan, Alexandria V.

Summary: Celia was mad. She must be if she is committed to this asylum, mustn’t she? It is 1888, and Celia is locked away in the Northern Michigan Asylum. Far away from the life she had known before, with only her own doubts to her sanity, and the kindness of a few new acquaintances to guide her. Does she belong here, shut away from the world? Or is she being hidden for a nefarious purpose? In 2011, Eve...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alexandria Nolan 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOL

Alender, Katie

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALE

Erickson, J. R.

Summary: The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening? On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows. In an abandoned cabin, beneath a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independently published 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Erickson, J. R.

Summary: The sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century. But that hasn’t kept the darkness at bay. Stories about the cursed house trickle out. Violent deaths, strange sightings, and always the chilling sound of a little girl’s song permeates the murky halls. Today, Kerry Manor is restored to its original grandeur. Corrie and Sammy Flynn, and their daughter Isis, move into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independently published 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Erickson, J. R.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Orla has a gift, an ability to sense things she touches: memories, traumas ... murders. On a sunny day in 1975, she sets off on a bike ride into the picturesque countryside and vanishes. She is not the first young woman to go missing and she will not be the last. Ashes beneath her is a paranormal murder mystery that will take you into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane. Ashes Beneath...

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Erickson, J. R.

Summary: "Jake Edwards hasn't thought about the Northern Michigan Asylum in three decades. When Petra, a mysterious woman from his childhood, appears at his business, he suspects a practical joke. Until the woman vanishes, leaving behind a blood-spattered apartment and a trail of secrets that all lead back to the shuttered asylum. As Jake digs into his dark past, he must face the sinister forces who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLI

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