|
|
by
Mona Simpson
(55)
Summary: When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F SIMPSON
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
James Patterson
(3,878)
Summary: My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me. Now: Hannah Doe is brought to Belman Psych, kicking and screaming, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. She is isolated,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F PATTERSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Erin Stewart
(3,791)
Summary: It's been three months since "The Night on the Bathroom Floor" -- when Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. Ever since then, Lily has been desperately trying to keep things together,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F STEWART
Location: New YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Jamie Ford
(16,085)
Summary: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F FORD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
details
|
|
![The many daughters of Afong Moy [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/262194@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Jamie Ford
Summary: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FORD
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Coco Mellors
(31,545)
Summary: Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank....
more »
BOOK
Call #: F MELLORS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![The last confessions of Sylvia P. [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/258652@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Lee Daniel Kravetz
(1,668)
Summary: Lee Kravetz uses a prismatic narrative formed from three distinct fictional perspectives to bring Sylvia Plath to life -- that of her psychiatrist, a rival poet, and years later, a curator of...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F KRAVETZ
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![Trust [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/258787@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Hernan Díaz
(24,640)
Summary: In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F DIAZ
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Stephanie Kuehn
(455)
Summary: Beatrice Fletcher is obsessed with unsolved murders in her small town of Cabot Cove, Maine like her great-aunt Jessica, the famous mystery writer. But when her best friend Jackson goes missing, this...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F KUEHN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Cormac McCarthy
Series:
Passenger Novels
(7,598)
Summary: 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F MCCARTHY
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Ella King
(1,176)
Summary: Just graduated from high school and waiting to start college at Oxford, Lily lives under the scrutiny of her volatile Singaporean mother, May, and is unable to find kinship with her elusive British...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F KING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Sarah Pinborough
(15,707)
Summary: Emma Averell loves her life -- her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband -- but it wasn't always so perfect. When she was just five years old,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F PINBOROUGH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![Sorrow and bliss [eBook] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/240892@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Meg Mason
(72,435)
Summary: There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of...
more »
EBOOK
checking availability...
|
|
|
|
by
Meg Mason
(71,291)
Summary: There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F MASON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Alice Oseman , artist
(287,437)
Summary: Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick feels the same way, but he's got a lot on his mind --...
more »
BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL OSE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Wai Chim
(3,296)
Summary: Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F CHIM
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Erica Spindler
(5,184)
Summary: "Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions. Now, she's returned home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life. In her mother's...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F SPINDLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![The other Mrs. [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/209860@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Mary Kubica
(83,962)
Summary: "Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F KUBICA
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Mary Kubica
(82,743)
Summary: Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F KUBICA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
details
|
|
|
|
by
Natasha Preston
(12,326)
Summary: After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up -- Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mom. Now, after a tragic accident takes their mom's life, the twins are reunited and Iris...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F PRESTON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
details
|
|
Staff Pick
|
|
by
Alice Oseman , artist
Series:
Heartstopper
(542,334)
Summary: Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and...
more »
BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL OSE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 2 of 2
details
|
|
|
|
by
Melody Dodds
(21)
Summary: Heather Wright is always all right. That's what people say. But if she's always all right, then why is life so hard? Heather starts cutting as a way to deal with the difficult emotions she locks...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F DODDS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Alice Blanchard
Series:
Natalie Lockhart - #2
(802)
Summary: The day after Burning Lake's notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene -- a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There's no clue to...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F BLANCHARD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Seth Dickinson
Series:
Masquerade (Seth Dickinson) - #3
(2,944)
Summary: The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F DICKINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Jennifer Donaldson
(2,952)
Summary: Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend -- the only person who ever...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F DONALDSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Katie Henry
(1,978)
Summary: Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
BOOK
Call #: YA F HENRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
April Henry
(2,124)
Summary: 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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F HENRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Hanna Alkaf
(4,512)
Summary: Melati Ahmad believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F HANNA ALKAF
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
David Vann
(492)
Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis etranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F VANN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Helena Fox
(8,711)
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven, but when Biz's almost-normal life turns upside-down and her father disappears again, she tumbles into a...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F FOX
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Julia Drake
(8,310)
Summary: 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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F DRAKE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![Where the watermelons grow [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/203723@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Cindy Baldwin
Summary: 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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F BALDWIN
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
Staff Pick
|
|
by
Cindy Baldwin
(2,340)
Summary: 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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F BALDWIN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Heidi Heilig
Series:
For A Muse Of Fire - #1
(1,805)
Summary: Jetta's family is the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. With Jetta behind the scrim, their puppets seem to move without string or stick-- a trade secret, they say. In truth, Jetta...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F HEILIG
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
A. J. Steiger
(2,186)
Summary: "Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can...
more »
BOOK
Call #: YA F STEIGER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![A line made by walking [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/180739@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Sara Baume
(2,265)
Summary: Retreating to her family's rural house to escape the challenges of urban life, twentysomething artist Frankie explores the chain of events that have challenged her mental stability and art education.
EBOOK
checking availability...
|
|
|
|
by
Natalie D. Richards
(3,661)
Summary: "Brought together by shared history and mental health issues, teenagers Theo and Paige try to break the spell cast by a haunted pedestrian bridge." -- Kirkus Reviews
BOOK
Call #: YA F RICHARDS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Dennis Lehane
(34,059)
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F LEHANE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
![Since we fell [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/166627@2x.jpg)
|
|
by
Dennis Lehane (read by Julia Whelan)
(34,059)
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F LEHANE
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
|
by
Heidi Cullinan
(5,277)
Summary: Normal is just a setting on the dryer. High school graduate Jeremey Samson is looking forward to burying his head under the covers and sleeping until it's time to leave for college. Then a tornado...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F CULLINAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
|
|
|
