Fischer, Nancy Richardson
Summary: "T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she's not developing schizophrenia. Genetics are not on Lily's side. When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily's odds are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Fischer 2018de la Peña, Matt
Summary: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway?Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH DE LMason, Lizzy
Summary: After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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Summary: Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOBaldwin, Cindy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BALSerritella, Francesca Scottoline
Summary: "Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERWray, John
Summary: The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believing that the world will end within a few hours and that only he can save it. It's a novel that defies easy categorization, although in one sense it's a mystery, as a detective, Lateef, is on the case, assisted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRACook, Thomas H.
Summary: Horrified by the suspicious drowning death of her schizophrenic son, Diana exchanges e-mails with her brother that explore clues from ancient murders in order to build a case against Diana's husband, who never made peace with the boy's illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOShusterman, Neal
Summary: "A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUAngelini, Josephine
Summary: While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2020
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Summary: Sam Hopkins fights back when he sees bullies harrassing Jennifer, an eccentric schoolmate who, he learns, is having terrifying hallucinations about demons, death, and destruction which may just come true unless Sam can stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION KLADick, Philip K.
Summary: VALIS is a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICCook, Thomas H.
Summary: Horrified by the suspicious drowning death of her schizophrenic son, Diana exchanges e-mails with her brother that explore clues from ancient murders in order to build a case against Diana's husband, who never made peace with the boy's illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOShusterman, Neal
Summary: "A captivating, National Book Award-winning novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Laurie Halse Anderson, award-winning author of Speak, calls it "a brilliant journey across the dark sea of the mind; frightening, sensitive, and powerful. Simply extraordinary." Caden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: LP YA FIC SHUTsutsui, Yasutaka.
Summary: "Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a compelling, haunting narrative. When prototype models of a device for entering into patients' dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people's dreams and drive them insane. Threatened both personally and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chūō Kōronsha 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC TSUFiler, Nathan.
Summary: Struggling to understand what happened to his brother years earlier after they both snuck out of the house during the middle of the night, Matthew believes he has found a way to bring his brother back by going off his meds, in this beautifully complex story that exposes the awful parts of life and the darkness of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FILWalton, Julia
Summary: "Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALPotok, Chaim.
Summary: Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders--now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTLesk, Steven
Summary: "Steven Lesk, though, after a medical career dedicated to those affected by schizophrenia and a determination to find the answer to its existence, presents a groundbreaking theory that will forever change the lives of the mentally ill. In Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Madness, Lesk threads evolutionary evidence with neurological evidence, turning the mysteries of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 LESJenoff, 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 JENWang, Esmé Weijun
Summary: "Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 WANSummary: 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