Springer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRFessler, Pam
Summary: "The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled--hidden away with their "shameful" disease. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Mississippi River curls around an old plantation thick with trees, with a stately white manor house at its heart. Locals knew it as Carville--the site of the only leprosarium in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19699 FESPasternack, Sofiya
Summary: "As the daughter of a prominent judge of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is expected to focus on learning etiquette and decorum in hopes of finding a good husband. But she doesn't care about any of that. Instead, she spends her days with her twin brother, Pesah, as they work to try to find a cure for his leprosy. Now Pesah's getting worse. The best doctors have given him mere weeks to live, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PASSummary: Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOEpstein, Jennifer Cody
Summary: "A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPSBrown, Carron
Summary: What's it like inside a hospital? Hold the special pages to a light to go behind the scenes at a busy hospital in this volume of the bestselling Shine-a-Light series of nonfiction books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, A division of EDC Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Set Shine Light Brown 2018McFadden, Freida
Summary: Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Freida McFadden] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Cox, Michelle.
Summary: "A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl. . . When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing people of their valuables. What begins as an open and shut case becomes more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cox 2020Sowle, Jennifer J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOWVanDeWeghe, Richard
Summary: Civil rights activist Lucy Greene becomes embroiled in a web of mystery at the Traverse City State Hospital, where, in 1963, she serves as patient advocate for her ailing friend. In conflict with an influential doctor’s infatuation with the new “wonder drugs,” she investigates overmedicating, side effects, and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Lucy aims to expose corruption without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VanDrWegheKesey, Ken.
Summary: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1962
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 2012Kesey, Ken.
Summary: A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Elliot, Turk and Carla may be growing older but they aren't necessarily growing up, Even as their career changes, family issues and love invade the quirky world of Sacred Heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: Under the cover of the Madwomen's Ball--when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere Asylum in Paris--nineteen-year-old Eugenie, who can see spirits, is determined to escape and seek those who will believe in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mas 2021VanDeWeghe, Richard
Summary: In the 1950s, in a small town in northern Michigan, a state mental hospital recognized for its humane patient care is increasingly threatened by a mysterious collusion of local antipathy and state politics. What begins as chronic vandalism soon spirals to physical assault. Struggling to make sense of the mysterious events, psychology intern Henry Merchartt wrestles with his evolving ethical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC VANDick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICVanDeWeghe, Richard
Summary: In the 1950s, in a small town in northern Michigan, a state mental hospital recognized for its humane patient care is increasingly threatened by a mysterious collusion of local antipathy and state politics. What begins as chronic vandalism soon spirals to physical assault. Struggling to make sense of the mysterious events, psychology intern Henry Merchartt wrestles with his evolving ethical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deeds Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VANSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIJenoff, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studio Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUMonsef, Kiyash
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONChin-Tanner, Wendy
Summary: "A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHIReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that the victim and her friend are one and the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS REIHughes, 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