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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon?capture?is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control."--Amazon.com....
3) Benny & Joon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
4) Love & Mercy
Publisher
Malibu Road, Llc
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter, and leader of the Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
"A deeply satisfying pop biopic whose subject's bifurcated creative life lends itself to an unconventional structure."--Hollywood Reporter
"Love & Mercy...
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Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxii, 409 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Written with authority and compassion, this is the essential resource for individuals and families seeking expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, featuring inspiring, true stories from real people in their own words. Millions of people in the United States are affected by mental illness every year, and the Covid-19 pandemic only further exposed the shortcomings of the American mental health system. Too many are confused, afraid, and...
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
9) In the blood
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
10) Small things
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
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In a graphic novel without words, a young boy struggles with anxiety, represented by a swarm of tiny creatures that gnaw at him, leaving him feeling isolated and out of control.
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My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me. NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the answer she's looking for? 1347: Hannah and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter. Hannah seeks out food and salvation in the baron's castle....
12) Beware that girl
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When a scholarship girl and a wealthy classmate become friends, their bond is tested when a handsome young teacher separately influences the girls in order to further his less-than-admirable interests.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
14) The museum of us
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sadie is lucky to survive an accident, but it changes her world forever when it reveals her secret life and the mysterious, thrilling boy at the center of it"--
15) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Description
"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
16) Without Tess
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Formats
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Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
318 pages 318 pages.
Description
Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space--especially now that she’s stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. And maybe it’ll be a chance for them to bond--or at least give each other a hand. But living with Mother isn’t for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon...
20) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Description
After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, Cole volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample to help scientists develop a cure
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