Summary: 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 CAMShoemaker, Sarah
Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHUSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNASummary: Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENLParciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: Sharpshooter Quigley travels to western Australia, only to find himself saddled with a half-loco lady, and locked in a lethal battle with a wealthy rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUISummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: "Linda Bishop was a loving mother, a well-educated and happy woman. Then her body was found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse, marked by cold and starvation. What was once Linda Bishop had quickly become a mystery, accompanied by her diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity. For nearly four months, Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Juno Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GODMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCElliot, Ruby
Summary: Explore the highs and lows of modern life through the sharp, dark wit of Ruby Elliot--creator of the massively popular Tumblr account, Rubyetc, which has over 210k followers and growing. Ruby's simple drawings of not-so-simple issues capture the humor and melancholy of everyday life. Her comics appeal to both new adults who are beginning to explore these subjects and to battle-tested veterans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 ELLLindsay, Rachel
Summary: "In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. Day after day, she sees her own suffering in the ads she helps to create, trapped in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 LINLeary, 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 LEACaine, Linda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8527 CAIFlock, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FlockBronte, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Erwin, Sherri Browning.
Summary: Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she's meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he's hiding a violent werewolf in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERWGiles, Nyna
Summary: Gile's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices; she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side. As Nyna grew up, her mother became more and more distant. Carolyn Scott Reybold had been a model in 1947, a friend of Grace Kelly, and even a bridesmaid at her wedding. How had that confident, glamorous woman become the mother Giles knew growing up-- the mother who was now living in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILES, NYNA GILMason, Meg
Summary: Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMorrissey, Donna
Summary: Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMoshiri, Farnoosh.
Summary: The Drum Tower is Farnoosh Moshiri's fourth work of fiction concerned with the deleterious effects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This novel, told by a mentally ill, 16-year-old girl, depicts the fall of Drum Tower, the house of a family descended from generations of War Ministers. Rich in characters--Talkhoon, who struggles to control the winds she hears inside her head and who tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Heron Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSBrontë, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROSummary: A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LILTaylor, Barbara
Summary: In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually, her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London. The Last Asylum is Taylor’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015