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Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Franny's estranged uncle comes home to help out after Nana's accident, some long-guarded family secrets come to light, forcing Franny to confront the discoveries she makes about her troubled absent mother, and herself.
22) A family madness
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Terry Delaney, a security guard and rugby player with a shot at pro-team success has his world turned upsidedown when he falls obsessively in love with Danielle Kabel, the daughter of his employer who is half mad and suffers from visions of an impending apocalypse and from demons of a tormented childhood in which he was a pawn between the Nazis and the Russians.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
Author
Series
And other stories volume 104
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere.
25) Motherthing
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--
27) Wild awake
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of a startling family secret leads seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd from a protected and naive life into a summer of mental illness, first love, and profound self-discovery"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses.
29) Madwoman
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum that looms on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to document - and expose - the wretched...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The bell jar.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey.
32) If you're lucky
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Determined to clear the fog from her mind in order to uncover the truth about her brother's death, seventeen-year-old Georgia secretly stops taking the medication that keeps away the voices in her head.
Author
Publisher
Interlude Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Reid Watsford has a lot of secrets and a past he can't quite escape. While staying at his grandmother's condo in Key Largo, he signs up for introductory dive classes, where he meets Joaquim Oliveira, a Brazilian dive instructor with wanderlust. Driven by an instant, magnetic pull, what could have been just a hookup quickly deepens. As their relationship evolves, they must learn to navigate the challenges of Reid's mental illness--on their own and...
34) Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive. -- from Amazon.
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Language
English
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"CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially...
Author
Series
On the seventh day trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Veronika seems to have it all--youth, beauty, a good job, and loving family. But one morning she wakes up and tries to kill herself. The attempt fails, but leaves her damaged with only a few days to live. In her final days she embarks on a transforming self-discovery.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In a scheme to reunite with her estranged biological mother, foster kid Jess joins a cosplay team working toward a competition in New York, but along the way she learns the value of the family you choose for yourself.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two...
40) Conjoined
Author
Publisher
Kapfer Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Austin Scola, a seasoned homicide detective who experiences periods of psychotic blackouts, is assigned the high-profiled case of the murder of the daughter of a powerful businessman. During the course of his investigation, Austin discovers that he is actually the killer. Austin must cover his own tracks for a murder he doesn't even remember committing." --
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