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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.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
294 pages; 22 cm
Description
"Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long"--
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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p. cm.
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
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A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Kidd, unhappy with his life in a group home and job at the beach, learns lessons about identity, love, and friendship through his relationships with Olivia, a rich girl from Cardiff, and Devon, a mysterious teen driven by a death wish."--
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 2
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Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
10) Tell me my name
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Description
Eighteen-year-old Fern's life spirals out of control after troubled former child star Ivy Avila arrives on Commodore Island, ultimately forcing Fern to take agency over her own existence.
Author
Series
For a muse of fire volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[iii, 494] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war"--
12) Oblivion
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Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
13) The lonely dead
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When schizophrenic Adele, who possesses a paranormal gift, is implicated in an investigation that involves the murder of her ex-best friend Tori, Adele must work with Tori's ghost to find the killer.
14) OCDaniel
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A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The bell jar.
17) 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"--
18) Moonflower
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Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
19) Blowback
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US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
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...
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