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2) The patient
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In a series of online posts, Parker H. ... 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 ... of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case--a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis ......
3) The blind
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can't save herself, she'll save someone else. It's this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons, though it leads Sam down some dark paths and opens her eyes to her own mental turmoil. When Richard, a mysterious patient no other therapist...
4) Not a sound
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A shocking discovery and chilling secrets converge in this latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that mattersher job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when...
Author
Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A riveting new thriller in which the heroine must confront her former tormentor who has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
Español
Description
El hombre que logro ser invisble: En esta adaptiacion clasica de H.G. Wells, despues de que un hombre (Arturo de Cordova) es falsamente acusado de ser un asesino, es sentenciado a prision por el resto de su vida. Su hermano, un clentifico que lo quiere ayudar a salir de la carcel, le da una pocion para hacerio invisble y asi el poder probar su inocencia. Desatortunadamente la pocion tiene efectos adversos lo cual lo hacen delirar y volverse loco....
8) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- Moby DickBut it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. -- Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for...
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