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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A "gripping" mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness, by the Edgar Award–winning author (Entertainment Weekly).
David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David's sister, Diana, for her superior intelligence. When the old man died, David thought the madness had finally left with him. But the Sears family...
2) Valis
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage."--Roberto BoląoWhat is VALIS' This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time--and in a race for her life--even if she doesn't realize it yet... She is smart, responsible, and contending with more than what most teens ever have to. Her mother struggled with schizophrenia for years until, one day, she simply disappeared--fleeing in fear that she was going to hurt herself or those she cared about. Ever since, Grace's father has worked as a recruiter at one of the leading labs...
4) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 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 University...
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