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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HugSummary: Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAMJohnson, Heidi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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2 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 362.2 JohnsonCall number: MI Local Johnson
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.21 JOHSummary: Since his mother's confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor's career and life unravel, he begins to identify with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOUJeffries, Benjamin S.
Summary: Take a personal tour of twenty-nine of the world's most haunted prisons, hospitals, and asylums.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In order to explore whether or not they believe in ghosts, three friends break into an abandoned asylum called Greystone. Legend has it that anyone who ventures into the hospital will go mad. The trio will now have to suffer through a mysterious realm of escaped patients, ghosts, and demonic shadows. As they become more afraid and paranoid they discover that if they survive, it may be without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS
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 ALEJohnson, Heidi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Local Author, Call number: OVS 362.21 JOHRoux, 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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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOHughes, 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 HUGParry, 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 PARNolan, 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 NOLSummary: "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 ALLSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNAErickson, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIHepinstall, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV's most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTErickson, 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 ERICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERILeary, Ann
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 LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEANolan, Alexandria V.
Summary: A Crime, a Memory, a Friend, a Life: All Forgotten. A broken young woman finds herself lodged in the wilds of a Northern Michigan asylum. Separated from the life she had known in Chicago, she grieves alone after a beloved friend has been murdered. Through electric shock treatments, hydrotherapy, and strange visitors, she tries to piece back together the life she once had--the life she almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alexandria Nolan 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P NOLWright, 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