For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction novels "for summertime." This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when...
Mentally ill
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Auteur:Peterson, LoisSommaire:Fifteen-year-old Leni copes with a mother who suffers from mental illness.
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Committed to an insane asylum in 1860 to keep her in line, Elizabeth Packard refused to be silenced and challenged the medical science of the day.
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Auteur:Wells, H. G., Paul, Frank R.Sommaire:Testing his time machine for the first time, a Victorian scientist finds himself in the year 802,701 ad. Encountering a childlike people called the Eloi, who live in futuristic buildings and have no need of work, the Time Traveller...
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Auteur:Wells, H. G.Sommaire:An arrogant medical student renders himself invisible in an experiment and terrorizes a small town in England while attempting to reverse the procedure. An iconic fleshing out of Plato’s parable, “The Ring of Gyges.”
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Auteur:Porter, PamelaSommaire:It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad...
- Auteur:King, WesleySommaire:
Seventh-grader Sara wants to be normal but her panic attacks and other episodes cause her to isolate herself until, in group therapy, she meets talkative and outgoing Erin, her first friend. Grades 3-6.
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Riding the Bus With my Sister chronicles the amazing year Rachel spent riding the buses with Beth, her mentally retarded sister. In Beth's world, Rachel finds unlikely heroes but most importantly, she starts to heal the wounds of...
- Auteur:Humphreys, HelenSommaire:
A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man...
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Auteur:Slater, LaurenSommaire:In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The...
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is considered the "bible" of psychiatry. Sarah Fay once believed the diagnoses she was given through this book until she discovered that the revered manual has...
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Auteur:Powers, RonSommaire:Ron Powers offers a searching narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. This is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been...
- Auteur:Smith, Daniel B.Sommaire:
We all think we know what being anxious feels like, but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. In this uplifting and very funny memoir, Daniel Smith articulates what it is like to...
- Auteur:MELVILLE, HermanSommaire:
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Auteur:Melville, HermanSommaire:One of the funniest and strangest narrators in literature goes to sea with a maniacal captain on a doomed whaling voyage. Ishmael’s rollicking digressions on everything from whaling to philosophy may have put you off in high school, but...
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Auteur:Schofield, AnakanaSommaire:Martin John sits beside you on the train. Can he see that look on your face? He needs to see that look in your eyes, the surprise of his touch upon your leg, and your repugnance. Despite his work's distractions, his evil flatmate's...
- Auteur:King, DerrickSommaire:
Love for a Deaf Rebel introduces readers to a vivacious Canadian woman who was born into a silent world and with the foundation for schizophrenia. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a...
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Auteur:Leavey, JoAnn ElizabethSommaire:Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness...
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Auteur:Neufeld, JohnSommaire:Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
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Auteur:Peterson, Tanya J.Sommaire:In this insightful and evocative novel, Tanya J. Peterson delves deeply into the world of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and schizophrenia. When Oliver Graham's suicide attempt fails, he is admitted to Airhaven Behavioral...
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