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2) What I lost
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
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The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two months, just before Frederick left to fight in World War II, Katharine received his total attentiveness, his limitless charms, his astonishing range of intellect and wit. Over the years, however, as Frederick’s...
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Diviners volume 3
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English
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The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.
6) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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English
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"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
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2022.
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English
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Torn between the past and present, institutionalized Hannah Dory, now Hannah Doe, must return to the year 1347 to save her sister before it's too late and must convince an Abnormal-Psych student to help her, even if it means she may never return.
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Mara Dyer trilogy volume 3
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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"Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer's story"--
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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2019.
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Keller takes readers back to West Virginia and a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins -- prosecutor turned private investigator -- makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: a dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
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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....
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Lady Petra Inquires volume 1
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2023.
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English
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London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident, she announces that she will never marry. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the best of society without any expectations. But when gossip suggests that a friend has died of a fit due to her “melancholia” while in the care of a physician, Petra vows to use her status to dig deeper—uncovering...
15) Spider light
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
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407 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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English
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The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day. She can try to ignore the sounds that surely can't really be there. And she can try to trust the...
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Laure, a ward attendant at the Salpêtrière women’s asylum, knew Josephine was lucky being placed in the hysteria ward, where there were more freedoms than in the lunacy ward. Josephine came to the asylum not remembering anything of her past, but when hypnotized by the famous Dr. Charcot, she relives a brutal attack. Dr. Charcot has his favorites and presents his patients on stage for the public to witness the symptoms of hysteria. Soon Josephine...
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Mad passions volume 2
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English
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Lady Mary Darrel should be the envy of London. Instead, all society believes her dead. For Mary holds a secret so dangerous, her father chose to keep her locked away--and have a grave made for her near her mother's. Driven to the edge of desperation, Mary manages to escape the asylum, only to find that her fate yet again rests in the hands of a man.
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