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4) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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...
5) Trigger city
Author
Series
Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a shy, unassuming woman for a grieving father brings Chicago PI Ray Dudgeon into a covert war between private contractors and the darkest sectors of our own government --a war that stretches from the closed-door hearings of Congress to the frontlines of Iraq.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to understand what happened to his brother years earlier after they both snuck out of the house during the middle of the night, Matthew believes he has found a way to bring his brother back by going off his meds, in this beautifully complex story that exposes the awful parts of life and the darkness of the heart.
Author
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Imp, a struggling schizophrenic, fights to determine whether or not the strange mythological creatures she meets are due to her condition or are from something else entirely in this new novel from the award-winning author of The Red Tree.
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brandon Cossey is finishing his last semester as an undergrad when he learns his childhood best friend, Jacob Balfour, has committed suicide. The news about Jacob, who had long battled schizophrenia, does not come as a surprise--but the bizarre details surrounding his death do. Jacob was found several states away, in a quarry, burned alive. Brandon returns to his hometown and discovers Jacob had been moonlighting as an amateur DIY reporter. As sole...
Author
Series
Desert plains volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Dylan Aster's unblemished trial record is threatened by an impossible case he gets sucked into. Madeline Ismera, a public defender in Oregon's Jackson County, reaches out to a friend in the DA's office of Nevada's Clark County to ask Dylan for help exactly because of his stellar reputation. The defendant she's been assigned, diagnosed schizophrenic Arlo Ward, is accused of a horrific crime in Coyote Canyon: the slaughter, partial...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"My friend and former Hunter classmate, Sarah Eggers, wrote a poem years ago referencing an anecdote about Frida Kahlo that has never left me: Clare Boothe Luce, editor of Vanity Fare, commissioned Frida to paint a commemorative portrait of her close friend, Dorothy Hale, a Ziegfeld girl and struggling actress who had committed suicide. Frida took it upon herself to execute an "ex-voto" style painting, detailing Dorothy's jump from the sixteenth floor...
11) Breaking out
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores an Iowa family's dynamics and history, revealing the forces that shape an innocent child and make a train wreck of his crossing from adolescence into adulthood.
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