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Author
Publisher
Woodbury, Minnesota
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day. She can try to ignore the sounds that surely can't really be there. And she can try to trust the...
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
'The Berenstain Bears take a trip to the hospital and discover that it's such a busy place! There are doctors, nurses, patients--and lots to learn about how to be healthy. Brother and Sister Bear see all the amazing things that happen in a hospital and make new friends along the way!"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Bell Elkins novels volume 08
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia and a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins--prosecutor turned private investigator--makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: a dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
84) Poppet
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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...
85) Hostile hospital
Author
Publisher
KCM Publishing, a division of KCM Digital Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When former mob thug turned doctor, John Cesari, takes a job as a gastroenterologist at a small hospital in upstate New York, he assumes he’s outrun his past and started life anew. But trouble has a way of finding the scrappy Bronx native. Things go awry one night at a bar when he punches out an obnoxious drunk who won’t leave his date alone. Unbeknownst to Dr. Cesari, that drunk is his date’s stalker ex-boyfriend -- and a crooked cop. Over...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past....
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 25
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Using her photographic memory Cam Jansen joins Eric in solving the mystery of a Valentine's day robbery in a hospital waiting room.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Formats
Description
From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they?re living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their pasts,...
Author
Series
Publisher
KCM Publishing, a division of KCM Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cancer patients from St. Matt’s Hospital are turning up dead all over lower Manhattan and a rogue pain management specialist is suspected. A ruthless financial adviser known as The Sommelier, with a taste for the high life, scams St. Matt’s Hospital out of millions of dollars by playing three card monte with their investments. Brought to the point of ruination, the hospital administration takes desperate measures to recover their losses. These...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c[2015.
Language
English
Description
A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by Maryland's judicial system for perpetrating heinous crimes-would...
92) Be-liev-a-rex-ic
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer has to force her family to admit she needs help for her eating disorder. But when her parents sign her into the Samuel Tuke Center, she knows it's a terrible mistake. The facility's locked doors, cynical nurses, and punitive rules are a far cry from the peaceful, supportive environment she'd imagined. In order to be discharged, Jennifer must make her way through the strict treatment program -- as well as harrowing accusations,...
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until the seventeen-year-old Polina arrives at the hospital....
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later...the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was violent and uncommunicative and sent to a psychiatric facility....
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling psychological thriller about how far some will go to maintain control--and exact revenge. When a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village, the police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time, three men--Yongje, the girl's father, and two security guards at the nearby dam, each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death--find themselves in an elaborate game of...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream--opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn't problem-free: She's in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother's best friend-turned-enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that's not all: someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that could...