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1) The Unsound
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ever since she was little, all Ashli wanted was to help people. It's why she went to nursing school, and it's why she signed up for the vacant position at Saint Cascia, despite the psychiatric hospital's less-than-sterling reputation. But when strange occurrences begin in the midst of her very first day on the job--razor blades scattered through the halls, a patient named Xerxes always hidden behind a makeshift mask, and a brutal riot initiated by...
2) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
Author
Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
5) The patient
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012], c2003
Language
English
Description
While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.
But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult, and Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is,...
7) El hospital
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Introduces hospitals, doctors, nurses, hospital equipment, the work that people do at a hospital, and the role of hospitals in a neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Escaping the perils of World War II Hungary for Australia, Frank is diagnosed with polio and sent to a children's hospital where he falls in love with a fellow patient while their families struggle to adjust to life in a new culture.
Author
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's another busy day at the hospital! Meet doctors and nurses, ride in an ambulance, and discover the magic of medicine in this nonfiction story for kids. This book is perfect for any child who is nervous about a trip to the hospital. Dr. Christle Nwora takes readers behind the scenes to meet the incredible people who keep you healthy, from surgeons to mental health therapists. Dr. Nwora also explains the science behind how things work, from X-rays...
11) The blind
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into the twisted past of a patient no other therapist is willing to treat, she analyzes her life and confronts her own mental turmoil.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
17) You were here
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of her daredevil brother's death, Jaycee breaks into Jake's favorite hideout, an abandoned insane asylum, where her eccentric friends challenge her to rediscover buried parts of herself.
Author
Series
Spoiler alert volume 2
Language
English
Description
After his involvement in a bar fight, a fading TV star winds up under the care of a former ER therapist who finds herself falling hard for him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Whitman's uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time. One of the most creative and individual poets America has produced, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, note-taker, and essayist whose intimate observations and reflections have profoundly deepened understanding of nineteenth-century American life. Specimen Days and Collect, first published in 1882, is a choice collection of Whitman's uniquely revealing...
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