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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In his new novel, bestselling New York Times author, David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends to watch over him. Swinging unpredictably...
Author
Description
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.
4) The boys
Author
Description
When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
5) 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.
6) 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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
192 pages
Description
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner caf?, the kitchen at dawn, Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art - which is always just about to be created. As the months pass, it...
8) Joker
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck encounters violent thugs while wandering the streets of GOtham City dressed as a clown. Disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as Joker in director Todd Phillips' thrilling origin story.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
202 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
The nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to helping those living with mental illness provides clear, honest, jargon-free information for anyone struggling emotionally and looking for help.
Author
Description
"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...
13) Small things
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
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.
Author
Description
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....
15) Betty blue
Series
Criterion collection volume 1002
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aspiring novelist and handyman becomes involved with a beautiful but darkly unpredictable woman.
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Description
"This biography tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the "homosexuality" diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"--
18) Persona
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic dumbness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
19) Lilith
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.
20) 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"--
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