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81) The hospital
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Barbara O'Hare was admitted to Aston Hall hospital in Derbyshire when she was just 12-years-old. From a troubled home, Barbara hoped the hospital would offer her protection from all that was wrong with the world - instead, she was tied down and administered sodium amytal, a barbiturate derivative, noted for its sedative/hypnotic properties. 'The Hospital' is Barbara's chilling account of the appalling abuses carried out at Aston Hall in the 1960s...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The follow-up to Where the Blame Lies--Where the Truth Lives is a gripping, page-turning, romantic thriller that will leave you gasping for breath. When the director of a local mental health hospital is found murdered and mutilated, Homicide Detective Reed Davies is first on scene. What was done to the body is gruesome. Inexplicable. But Reed is dealt another curveball when he finds that the doctor who discovered the victim is someone Reed is intimately...
Author
Series
Outlaw chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Who am I? My name is Christy Snow. I'm seventeen and I'm about to die. I'm buried in a coffin under tons of concrete. No one knows where I am. My heart sounds like a monster with clobber feet, running straight toward me. I'm lying on my back, soaked with sweat from the hair on my head to the soles of my feet. My hands and feet won't stop shaking. Some will say that I m not really here. Some will say I'm delusional. Some will say that I don't even...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When she was fifteen Jane Standen lost the five-year old girl she was taking care of and the child was never found. Years later, Jane is working as an archivist at a local museum in contemporary London which is about to close due to lack of funding. As her last project she searches for information related to a woman who disappeared about 125 years ago from a Victorian asylum. The story moves between the museum, the Victorian asylum and the wooded...
86) The gray chamber
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"On Blackwell's Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving. With her late parents' fortune under her uncle's care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society's demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though,...
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum. This collection also features bonus sneak peeks at Asylum, Sanctum, and Catacomb, the novels...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Behind a twenty-foot-tall chain-link fence topped with coiled razor wire, there is a verdant lawn populated by shimmering, ornery peacocks and some of the world's most dangerous and violent criminals. Napa State Hospital is one of the largest forensic mental hospitals in the country, where each one of the 1,200 patients is criminally ill. They are the mass murderers, the sexual predators, and the school shooters - they are Not Guilty by Reason of...
90) Insanitarium
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Taking the blame for his sister's criminal acts, a young man is sentenced to a sanitarium where he finds a doctor is turning the patients into psychopathic cannibals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival...
93) Now, Voyager
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. When Richard, a mysterious patient no other therapist wants to treat, is admitted to Typhlos, Sam is determined to unlock his secrets and his psyche. But she can't figure out why Richard appears to be so normal in a hospital filled with madness. As Sam gets pulled into Richard's twisted past, she can't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum's history were committed by court order. Without interpreters,...
Author
Series
Hussite trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of the legendary Witcher series—the books that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games—comes the first in an epic new trilogy.
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.