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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Greylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2015.
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life is gone. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the...
Author
Publisher
Jean Logan
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Broadlawns Medical Center, which for 100 years has served the healthcare needs of the people of Polk County, Iowa. It has not been an easy journey -- it suffered through over crowded conditions, financial shortfalls, mental health crises and waves of communicable diseases which threatened the community. But Broadlawns is proud and resilient, overcoming great odds, and today it encompasses all that makes it one of the best public...
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
Publisher
Little Pebble Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn about community helpers on the scene at a hospital!"-- cover page 4.
"Nonfiction, simple text with full-color photography presenting community helpers on the scene at a hospital"--
12) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage on him and his family. To his horror, he learns that he's been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward. Drawing from his own personal experience of mental illness, and writing...
16) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past.".
17) Meet a doctor!
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Two children learn the importance of doctors in their community"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Booket
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Abraham Salgado, que tuvo un pasado más que difícil, ingresa a trabajar en un gigantesco complejo llamado Hospital San Niño, en el que se albergan también enfermos mentales. Pronto descubre, muy a su pesar, que el lugar esconde secretos colosales y perturbadores, y se vuelve cada vez más extraño y siniestro con el paso de los días. No puede escapar de allí, haga lo que haga. El Hospital San Niño es una trampa mortal ... y amenaza con destruir...
20) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
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