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1) Jane Eyre
Author
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
3) 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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She’s immediately in awe of her employer—brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Soon after she’s hired, Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. Mary remembers Lillian as a beautiful free spirit...
5) Repulsion
Publisher
Entertainment Programs International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium leads to dire circumstances.
6) Marnie
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A compulsive liar and thief...winds up marrying the very man she attempts to rob. When a terrible accident pushes her over the edge, her husband struggles to help her face her demons as the plot races to an inescapable conclusion.
7) 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.
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Description
"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-traveled reporter.
13) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"One woman, multiple personas. But which one is telling the truth? Alexa W nearly has her life together: a new relationship, a job that pays the bills, and a promising interview for a photojournalism position. But, it's complicated. Alexa is manipulated by a series of alternate personas that run her life, and it's a constant struggle to keep her other selves in check, to prevent them from coming out when it's not safe, to make sure no one is aware...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xx, 295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The Last Asylum is Taylor?s breathtakingly blunt and brave account of those years. In it, Taylor draws not only on her experience as a historian, but also, more importantly, on her own lived history at Friern? once known as the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and today the site of a luxury apartment complex. Taylor was admitted to Friern in July 1988, not long before England?s asylum system began to undergo dramatic change: in a development that was...
19) Mr. Rochester
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm
Description
On his eighth birthday, Edward Rochester is banished from his beloved Thornfield Hall to learn his place in life. His journey eventually takes him to Jamaica where, as a young man, he becomes entangled with an enticing heiress and makes a choice that will haunt him. It is only when he finally returns home and encounters one stubborn, plain, young governess, that Edward can see any chance of redemption - and love.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the container. Anastasia. In this cherished classic, Ingrid Bergman gives an Oscar-winning performance as a beautiful destitute woman being groomed to pass for a Russian empress.
From the container. Gentleman's Agreement. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this riveting classic tackles prejudice head-on, as a journalist discovers what it is to be victim of religious intolerance.
From the container. The Ox-Bow Incident....
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