mentally ill

When she inherits the old, painted table from her mother, Saffee is confronted by the memories of her childhood, marred by her mother's mental illness, and fears that she may become insane as well.

Griffin, a scientist, creates a serum to make himself invisible and eventually goes insane. Includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

A woman who loses her sanity after her husband and doctor recommend she remains locked in a room with strange, yellow wallpaper while she recovers from postpartum depression.

Susan Wendt and her husband move into their dream apartment, a renovated brownstone with ridiculously low rent, but she begins to wonder if she is losing her mind when she awakens every morning with fresh bedbug welts, even though her husband and daughter do not suffer a single bite, and the exterminator can find no evidence of the pests.

A psychiatrist sets out to understand the underpinnings of violence in killers including Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman.

When twelve-year-old Shannon is kidnapped by a psychopath, her new friend, Katie, finds her life in danger when she unknowingly becomes the kidnapper's only witness.

Tricia makes some important discoveries about her stepfather's past while staying with him at his mountain cabin.

When three high school friends are invited to live briefly with a wealthy neighbor, their lives are changed by their relationships with a mysterious "gardener.".

Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale.

Mortimer Brewster is appalled when he learns that his charming little old aunts have been poisoning their elderly gentlemen boarders in what they believe is an act of kindness, and burying them in the cellar with the help of another nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.