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A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. The stranger--a brilliant scientist--has uncovered the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder!
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[2016]
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If someone you know is living and working with schizophrenia, their life is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. Baldwin makes a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group in the labor market. She looks at societal factors that affect employment outcomes for persons with serious mental illness, and then...
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2020.
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Publisher Annotation: 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. But when her mother finally gets...
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2022.
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Publisher Annotation: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution-one as an employee; the other, an inmate. 336pp., 100K
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John Waters is a man happy with his lot in life. But this happiness is hard-won and may be less stable than he would like to believe. Years earlier, Waters escaped an obsessive love affair with the ravishing but disturbed Mallory Candler, a love that he feared might consume him. Mallory disappeared after Waters married, and later he learned that...
9) Instinct
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[1999]
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English
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Anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), who is in prison for the criminally insane is set to be examined by a young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Gooding). Caulder will risk his life to get to the truth.
10) The patient
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2020.
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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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2023.
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"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to...
12) True true lie
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[2009]
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English
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An intense psychological thriller about a young woman released after 12 years in an insane asylum.
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2024.
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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[2016]
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Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. So when his worried parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have 'superpowers'. At the Academy, Bo falls in love with Sofia, who helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age....
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"The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!" —Colleen Hoover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never
Iris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her?
Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister's fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never
Iris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her?
Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister's fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there...
16) Blaze: a novel
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Originally written thirty-five years ago but never published, a crime novel chronicles the life and times of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.--the crimes committed against him and the crimes he himself commits, including a kidnapping he is doomed to attempt.
17) Delirious
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Charlie Giles watches his life slowly unravel as he becomes the prime suspect in the murders of his former employers, who are being picked off one by one, and, with nowhere else to turn, enlists the help of his schizophrenic brother to find the truth.
18) Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre is an orphan, penniless, and plain, but endowed with courage and spirit. She is hired as governess, by Mr. Rochester, a brooding, melancholy man with a fiery temper and a dark secret.
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"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs...
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[2012]
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English
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For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of...
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