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Theirs was an idyllic friendship; their experiences together at Penrose College the very best that life could offer. But that was then.... Stained glass artist Juno McKay is forced to confront the events that shattered the intense friendship between herself, her best friend, Christine, and her husband, Neil, when she discovers, after years of absence, that Christine is to deliver a lecture at their college reunion. Despite her misgivings, Juno
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2020.
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English
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
5) Brain fever
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
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308 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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English
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"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 violent and uncommunicative and sent to a psychiatric facility....
7) Bad karma
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Series
Criminally insane novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
8) Life support
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Series
Grace Medical novels volume 3
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English
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Nurse Lauren Barclay put her life on hold to keep a watchful eye on her troubled sister; that's why she's back in Houston. But that means confronting the brooding physician assistant who caused painful turmoil in her family-- and left Lauren with memories her heart can't forget. PA and single parent Elijah Landry is no stranger to stormy relationships, and he's determined to protect his disabled brother-- and to making peace with Lauren. But as Lauren...
10) Unless
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
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213 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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English
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The Time Machine
Published in 1895, The Time Machine was the first novel to suggest the theme of time travel by machine, and along with other books by Wells, it was a forerunner of the contemporary science fiction genre, then known as “scientific romances.”
Wells wrote mainly speculative fiction concerned with the contemporary problems of human society and its possible futures. While his works express a hope in human technology...
14) Beloved stranger
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
16) Show of evil
Author
Series
Martin Vail novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
17) Poppet
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English
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"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking...
18) Orange laughter
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
20) The patient
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English
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"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
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