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Can you see me yet?
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Timothy Findley |
In 1938, in a world about to go mad with war, an Ontario insane asylum seems to offer sanctuary to the characters in Can You See Me Yet? But as Cassandra Wakelin begins to confuse her fellow inmates … |
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Blue asylum
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Kathy Hepinstall |
Amid the mayhem of the American Civil War, a Virginia plantation wife is put on trial by her slaveholder husband. Iris Dunleavy is convicted of madness by a Virginia judge; it is the only reasonable … |
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The Last Warner Woman
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Kei Miller |
Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of "warning": the power to protect, inspire, and terrify. But when she is sen… |
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The Woman in White
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Wilkie Collins |
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intri… |
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The Madman's Tale
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John Katzenbach |
It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to … |
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Promising young women
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Suzanne Scanlon |
A series of fragmentary tales telling the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, embarks on a journey of many years through psychiatric institutions. |
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Umbrella
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Will Self |
It is 1971, and Zachary Busner is a maverick psychiatrist who has just begun working at a mental hospital in suburban north London. As he tours the hospital's wards, Busner notes that some of the pat… |
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Wreaking
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James Scudamore |
Perilously ill, Jasper Scriven spends his days roaming the wards of a derelict psychiatric hospital on England's southeast coast. His daughter Cleo works in London as a news editor, making palatable … |
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Down under
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Marc vande Gucht |
Personal account by a Belgian man whose daughter committed suicide after a number of serious depressions. |
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The professor and the madman
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Simon Winchester |
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise … |
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The hit
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Jere R. Hoar |
"The Hit is the story of the downward spiral of Luke Carr, a Vietnam war veteran, and, at the time of the story's telling, mental patient at a VA hospital in Mississippi. In a series of notebooks wri… |
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The Ambler warning
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Robert Ludlum |
On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified i… |
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Pilgrim state
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Jacqueline Walker |
In the haunting opening pages, set in Pilgrim State mental facility in New York State in 1951, Dorothy has been forcibly sectioned and is battling to keep her children and her sanity. She will strugg… |
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In zodiac light
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Robert Edric |
The new novel from one of the UK's finest literary writers.It is December 1922 and the aftershocks of the First World War continue to make themselves felt. Ex-soldier, poet and composer, Ivor Gurney,… |
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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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Dialogues
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Stephen J. Spignesi |
In this electrifying debut, Stephen Spignesi reinvents the psychological thriller with a chilling tale of mounting intensity. Ingeniously crafted and crackling with suspense, here is a puzzle within … |
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Du bist zu schnell
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Zoran Drvenkar |
Du weißt nicht, ob es sie gibt. Du weißt nicht, ob sie dich beobachten. Du glaubst, sie zu hören, hältst nach ihnen Ausschau. Damit sie sich wieder zeigen.
Val erwacht in einer geschlossenen Ansta… |
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Girl, Interrupted
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James Mangold,Lisa Loomer,Anna Hamilton Phelan |
Script for the film, plus an interview with Mangold, 8 black-and-white stills and 10 pages of storyboards drawn by Alex Rubin. |
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