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61) Sucker punch
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll in a mental institution, where she creates an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world, but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary.
62) Breaking dawn
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Don Wake is in a psychiatric hospital loaded with secrets, and a young medical student is assigned to him to find out those secrets. She has to wade through the information he tells her to see what is the truth and what is a lie.
63) Get well soon
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Anna Bloom, confined to a mental hospital by her parents who do not know how to deal with her depression and panic attacks, writes letters to her best friend Tracy sharing the funny details of her life and the people she is getting to know at Lakeland.
64) Sucker Punch
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll in a mental institution, where she creates an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world, but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary.
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
Description
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.
66) Wolf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Believing he is a wolf trapped in a human body, Jacob eats, sleeps, and lives like a wolf. He's sent to a clinic where he undergoes increasingly extreme forms of 'curative' therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat, and as their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, Jacob is faced with a challenge: will he renounce his true self for love?
67) Night watch
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"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
It is the stunning true story of journalist Nellie Bly's now-legendary undercover stint in a mental hospital in 1887. This dramatic biopic follows a 23-year-old Bly, a fledgling and preternaturally talented news writer looking to expose rampant abuse, corruption, murder and gross mistreatment of patients at the insane asylum in a mental hospital known as Blackwell's Island. To gain access to the asylum, however, Bly must first convince the requisite...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant's father dies, he leaves to her the care of an adult ward she knew nothing about. The woman is supposedly a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. The woman's portrait is shockingly familiar to Vivienne, so when the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.The longer she lingers in the deep shadows and forgotten towers...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"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...
72) Rayuela
Author
Description
" Counternovel, chronicle of madness, the black hole in an enormous funnel, a shout of alert, a type of atomic bomb, a call to necessary disorder, an immense cloud of smoke. These are just some of the expressions that have been used to refer to Rayuela, the novel Julio Cortazar began to dream up in 1958 and published in 1963, Rayuela s arrival had a profound impact on the cultural scene of its time, jolted readers worldwide, and triggered a true revolution...
73) Sucker punch
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll in a mental institution, where she creates an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world, but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary.
74) Insanity
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The intertwining stories of three teenagers who find themselves haunted beyond imagining in the depths of a Kentucky mental institution.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
He is called 'The Wolf', a spike-jawed serial killer responsible for the murders of fifteen young girls. Arrested by Detectives Elliott Carbon and Johnny Morgan, he has been declared criminally insane and sentenced to the sanitarium of Dr. Parker. But a power failure at the maximum-security facility has unlocked the cell doors and trapped Parker, Johnny, and the hospital staff inside. The inmates, psychopaths, and the Wolf himself are running the...
76) 17 & gone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Around the world in seventy-two days: In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time; Six months in Mexico: She took the initiative to work as a foreign correspondent at the age of 21; Ten days in a mad-house: In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover for the New York World newspaper by feigning insanity to investigate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A forgotten woman... 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge. A cache of unsent love letters... 2018. When free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker is forced to take shelter on a far-flung island off the Cornish Coast during a research posting, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The follow-up to Where the Blame Lies--Where the Truth Lives is a gripping, page-turning, romantic thriller that will leave you gasping for breath. When the director of a local mental health hospital is found murdered and mutilated, Homicide Detective Reed Davies is first on scene. What was done to the body is gruesome. Inexplicable. But Reed is dealt another curveball when he finds that the doctor who discovered the victim is someone Reed is intimately...