When Walter Hartwright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The story, full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and...
Psychiatric hospital patients
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Auteur:Baldacci, DavidSommaire:Edgar Roy--an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like federal supermax facility--is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and...
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Auteur:Nimeh-Mailloux, RosineSommaire:It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Women,” having feigned insanity to avoid being put to death for the murder of her abusive husband. When attacked by a fellow inmate, Amal must confront her traumatic...
- Auteur:Nunn, KayteSommaire:
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is...
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Auteur:Barnes, MikeSommaire:Prompted by a mysterious summons from his past, a man known only as 'The Super' begins an investigation into maternal neglect by a privileged Toronto family. As the case deepens, revealing a web of systemic crime and depravity, The...
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Auteur:Lowry, Malcolm, Doyen, Vik, Mota, Miguel, Ackerley, Chris, McCarthy, Patrick A., Tiessen, Paul, Surrey, PhilipSommaire:Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic...
- Auteur:Flynn, GillianSommaire:
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic,...
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Auteur:Lukach, MarkSommaire:A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty...
- Auteur:Goudreault, DavidSommaire:
At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me.
Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic... -
Auteur:Couturier, GraciaSommaire:Depuis que son frère Bruno est interné dans un asile psychiatrique, Étienne se croit à l’abri de tout et de tous, dans son domaine du Bois des Songes. Cette trêve sera toutefois de courte durée. Cherchant en vain une forme de libération...
- Auteur:Hepinstall, KathySommaire:
After defying her husband during the war, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is deemed insane and taken to Sanibel Asylum to receive treatments for her unruliness. There she meets another "broken" soul--Confederate soldier Ambrose...
- Auteur:Pottle, AdamSommaire:
After years of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another...
