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Hunting the devil
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Richard Lourie |
An account of the search for the killer of fifty-three Soviet citizens describes how Russian Chief Inspector Issa Kostoev searched for the man who sexually mutilated, killed, and cannibalized his vic… |
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The dark side of innocence
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Terri Cheney |
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Manic: A Memoir" comes a gripping and eloquent account of the awakening and unfolding of Cheney's bipolar disorder. |
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The Good Rat
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Jimmy Breslin |
"I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself."On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawle… |
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His Bright Light
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Danielle Steel |
Danielle Steel's moving personal story of the son she lost to manic depression.This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he wa… |
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Obsessed
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Allison Britz |
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side in this powerful memoir. |
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Mental
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Jaime Lowe |
"A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder, stemming fr… |
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Seriously not all right
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Ron Capps |
"SERIOUSLY NOT ALL RIGHT : Five Wars in Ten Years is a memoir by Ron Capps, who served both in military intelligence and in the foreign service and as an observer over the span of ten years in wars r… |
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Love in the land of dementia
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Deborah Shouse |
Shouse celebrates spiritual and practical lessons learned on her unplanned, unwanted, yet ultimately rewarding journey with her mother through Alzheimer's disease. Against all odds, the love her pare… |
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He wanted the moon
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Mimi Baird |
The author pieces together the story of her absent father's life, beginning with his advancements in isolating the biochemical root of manic depression, which he then began to suffer from himself, le… |
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The evil hours
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David J. Morris |
"In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD. Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, posttrauma… |
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Smoking cigarettes, eating glass
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Annita Perez Sawyer |
Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, … |
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Sybil
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Flora Rheta Schreiber |
Verslag van de ziektegeschiedenis van een Amerikaanse vrouw met een gespleten persoonlijkheid en de psycho-analytische behandeling die op haar werd toegepast. |
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Ice Cream in the Cupboard
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Pat Moffett |
A touching story of a husband's undying love. Pat Moffett offers hope and comfort to patients, caregivers and anyone who must deal with Alzheimer's disease in this agonizing tale, which is a testamen… |
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The last time I wore a dress
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Daphne Scholinski |
Placed in a mental hospital at age fifteen after being diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, an author shares her harrowing ordeal in the hopes that other teenagers will not suffer as she did due … |
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Girl, interrupted
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Susanna Kaysen |
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward … |
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The Outsider
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Nathaniel Lachenmeyer |
The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the… |
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A Mind That Found Itself
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Clifford Whittingham Beers,Clifford Whittingham Beers |
This book tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his… |
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The Innocent Man
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John Grisham |
Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major leagu… |
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The Legend of Nietzsche's Syphilis
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Richard Schain |
"Challenges the widely held view that Friedrich Nietzsche was afflicted by a form of syphilis that affected his thinking and behavior."--BOOK JACKET. |
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