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From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2
IGNORE THE SCREAMS. IT’S JUST PART OF THE GAME.
Autumn wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. She has the sports car, the apartment, and the private college. Now she wants excitement. She’s going to get it. Daddy has signed up Autumn and her friends for the “ultimate urban reality” game: a simulated drug deal,...
IGNORE THE SCREAMS. IT’S JUST PART OF THE GAME.
Autumn wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. She has the sports car, the apartment, and the private college. Now she wants excitement. She’s going to get it. Daddy has signed up Autumn and her friends for the “ultimate urban reality” game: a simulated drug deal,...
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2022.
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"1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris-silent,...
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"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist...
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
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Six years ago tragedy struck and Caroline Rogers had to make tough decisions to sell the family farm and put her life on hold to raise her younger siblings. Now that they're entering adulthood and her long-delayed photography career is taking off, she can almost taste the freedom.
Shaken by self-doubt, Dr. Mick Larsen turns his back on his big-city psychiatric practice and settles for the small-town quiet of Redbud Mill, where he can hide his...
Shaken by self-doubt, Dr. Mick Larsen turns his back on his big-city psychiatric practice and settles for the small-town quiet of Redbud Mill, where he can hide his...
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
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2022.
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English
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"It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer -- brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age...
11) Ashes, ashes
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2008.
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220 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Forensic psychiatrist Conyors is faced with the task of stopping four high-security prisoners from being transferred to a hospital on mental health grounds. When a twisted genius escapes while in transit, the resulting cat-and-mouse game could spell disaster for the residents of Manhattan.
12) 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...
13) Cypress nights
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Bayou books (Stella Cameron) volume 10
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English
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Roche Savage is a dedicated, talented psychiatrist with a life-shattering secret; his sexuality is over-the-top. He's always avoided gentle, reserved women because he can't trust himself not to frighten, or even hurt them. Unfortunately, he can't stop thinking about Bleu Labeau, a quiet teacher who has come to Toussaint to start a new school in St. Cecil's parish. Bleu suffers the psychological consequences of being the widow of a man who taught her...
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Hector's journeys volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Hector is an excellent psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients who are ill, but more and more; his patients are people he can't treat. They have no serious problems -- they're simply deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for these people, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off on a trip around the world to try to find the key to happiness....
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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284 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Having witnessed her mother's murder when she was a child, forensic scientist Lily Dominick is used to dealing with violent crime, but when she acquires a mysterious patient, she begins to question what exactly she saw all those years ago. Lily thought she made up the monster she saw as a child, but this unnamed patient may have the clues she seeks. He claims to be more than 200 years old and the inspiration for stories about Dracula and Dr. Jekyll...
17) Psychopath
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Series
Frank Clevenger novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Takes the reader deep into this hidden and fascinating world of paranormal activity and details eerie true-life tales of demonic attacks, oppressions, and possessions.
19) Hello again
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A psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in remote Alaska,, Evelyn Talbot discovers her new client is not the icepick killer when a new murder occurs on the outside that is linked to her past and to her high school boyfriend Jasper Moore who tortured her and left her for dead when she was 16.
20) Critical threat
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"FBI Special Agent Grace Billingsley tracks serial killers, using her skills as a psychiatrist and behavioral analyst to get dangerous people off the street and safely behind bars. But prison psychiatrist Sam Monroe knows that just because a killer is incarcerated doesn't mean they're not a threat. His own father, Peter, is a serial killer--in prison but certainly not out of Sam's life, as much as he wishes he was.When bodies start showing up with...
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