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"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work." —Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl
It's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken
2) Impulse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
5) What I lost
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Cut
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
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Language
English
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Description
"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...
8) Poppet
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
11) Stone mothers
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is, until her husband buys a flat in its newly renovated interior...
12) Get well soon
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--
My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me. NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the...
15) Stella Maris
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Language
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...
17) Michael Gate
Author
Publisher
Cliffhouse Publication
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In the dark landscape of his soul there was a light. Inside that light she was living in his dreams but he couldn't remember. To find his love he first had to find himself..." -- Back cover.
A prominent forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Michael Gate works at a maximum security facility for the criminally insane. When he meets a suspect in a high profile case of possible kidnapping and murder named Theodorus, Michael will soon be in for the biggest challenge...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Murder. Fire. Revenge. That's all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything. Writing out the story of her troubled past in a journal, she must confront hidden truths. Is the...
19) Project 17
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...
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