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1) Asylum
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A hospital for the criminally insane becomes a hotbed of passion, obsession, and manipulation when a psychiatrist's wife and an inmate begin a torrid affair...resulting in a shocking turn of events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a children's book for early readers that describes a field trip to the hospital, and explains why people go to the hospital, who works there, and the various jobs people do at the hospital.
Author
Series
Asylum volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out—before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong
...8) Spellbound
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The famous Dr. Edwardes takes over as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum and finds himself attracted to Dr. Constance Petersen, but she soon realizes he is a paranoid amnesiac imposter and tries to cure him while finding out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Katherine Merrill watches her husband's mental health decline over the years of their marriage, but after an outburst at a cocktail party leads to his being arrested, Katherine has him committed to a revered mental asylum where he tries to incorporate art into every moment and contend with his surroundings; meanwhile Katherine is left alone to raise their four children as she tries to reconstruct a life she no longer lives.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
17) Toxin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
18) Poppet
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Camarillo State Hospital, affectionately known as Cam," officially opened its doors in 1936, during a time when the California State Commission in Lunacy oversaw the treatment and care of those deemed mentally ill. A pioneering research institution in autism and schizophrenia, Cam achieved notoriety as one of two state institutions that accommodated children and as the first state hospital to receive certification for treatment of the developmentally...
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