Gyasi, Yaa
Summary: "A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GYACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gyasi 2020Springer, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRCahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHPatterson, James
Summary: My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me. Now. Hannah Doe is brought to Belman Psych, kicking and screaming, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. 1347. Hannah Dory and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter. Hannah seeks out food and salvation in the baron's castle. If she is caught stealing, she will surely hang. Now. Hannah knows the truth - she is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kava, Alex
Summary: "Ryder Creed and his K9 search-and-rescue dogs return in the second installment of an exciting new series, teaming up once more with FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell in their riskiest case yet. When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KAVJenoff, 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLICurrie-McGhee, L. K. (Leanne K.)
Summary: "Stress, social media, and other pressures all have contributed to millions of teens dealing with mental health issues. This has lead to a significantly increasing percentage of youth struggling in life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Headline review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HugKava, Alex
Summary: "In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KAVMcFadden, Freida
Summary: "Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kesey, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KESKesey, Ken.
Summary: McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1962
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KES1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KES
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KesCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kesey 2012Rodale, Maya
Summary: "Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff chronicles the untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.548 ZUCZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 ZUCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 ZUCLeary, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEAKuehn, Stephanie
Summary: Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUEBolte, Mari
Summary: Ellie is a bloodhound puppy from a family of search-and-rescue dogs, but so far her training has not gone well because she is too easily distracted--but her team is depending on her to focus on today's scavenger hunt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BOLPapp, Lisa
Summary: Madeline Finn and Star are off to Walker Oaks, a retirement community where Star will take his tests to become a therapy dog. Accompanied by Mom, Mrs. Dimple, and Bonnie the library dog, she and Star make their way through a variety of challenges and meet several new friends. But Madeline Finn can't stop thinking about an elderly man in a wheelchair who never smiles. Is there something she and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Papp 2020Salazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mejia, Mindy
Summary: "There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later ... the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILPatterson, James
Summary: My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the answer she's looking for? 1347: Hannah and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022