psychiatric hospitals

McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

As Shreve Cannon's ability to absorb the memories of others has him teetering on the edge of insanity, he returns to the custody of the state of Arkansas, this time in a mental institution, but he must collect himself and find Jack, the twelve-fingered Boy, if he is to stop an unspeakable evil that is stirring in Baltimore.

"Transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum . . . [telling] the ninety-three-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [Antonia Hylton] blends the tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents . . . [chronicling] the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations . . . [and] traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system"--Provided by publisher.

"The story of a teenage girl's recovery, in a psychiatric hospital, from anorexia, told in poetry"--Provided by publisher.

Enola Holmes returns in her first adventure after the success of the Netflix movie, which has taken her back to the top of the sales charts. Enola Holmes is the sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. And just like them, she possesses intelligence, skills and detective inclinations. When Miss Letitia Glover, an emancipated woman, comes to Sherlock asking him to find out what has happened to her twin sister, it is Enola who greets her. Apparently, and according to the brief message she has received from her, her sister Felicity, married to the Earl of Dunhench, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced that this is not true: if her sister had died, she would have known it, she would have felt it inside her.

When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--Provided by publisher.

"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--Provided by publisher.

When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.