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1) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jane Eyre recounts the story of a governess who, having suffered during childhood both at her aunt's house and then at school, finds herself falling for her new employer, Mr Rochester. But Mr Rochester and his home are not all they seem and when secrets come to light, Jane is forced to abandon all her hopes and dreams."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.
But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult, and Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Waters is a man happy with his lot in life: genuine satisfaction with his growing business, contentment with the 4ase of family routines, and the pleasures of watching his daughter bloom. But this happiness is hard-won, and may be less stable than he would like to believe.
4) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Following the death of her uncle, the orphan Jane Eyre is sent to the Lowood School, where she grows into a confident and well-educated young woman. When Jane leaves to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls in love with Mr. Rochester, her pupil's guardian. But a series of eerie and terrifying events threatens to destroy her happy future. Featuring gripping plot twists and surprises, Jane Eyre offers rich insight into the life of a woman...
7) Silversword
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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Description
After being raised by her grandmother, Caroline returns to Hawaii to find out what happened on the day her parents died.
8) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a happy marriage while remembering an obsessive love affair years earlier with a woman who subsequently died, John Waters encounters a woman with a secret only his ex-girlfriend knows, and when she, too, is killed, Waters' life is enveloped by guilt and suspicion.
11) Life sentences
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"A genetic researcher in Boston is driven to find a cure for the rare disease that claimed the life of her younger brother. But her progress is halted when her mentally unstable sister is discovered missing from her California home"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Stay with me volume 1
Publisher
Nicole Fiorina
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Author
Series
O'Malley Family Saga volume 6
Publisher
Forge, Center Point large print
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Chucky O'Malley and his ever-growing clan enter the Reagan years--even as a series of painful shocks tests the family's strength as never before.
Author
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Izzy's eccentric, complicated mother committed suicide on her forty-first birthday. Now, on the night before Izzy herself is to turn forty-one, she struggles with the realization that she will be older than her mother ever was. And to make matters worse, her widowed father, unstable sister Ellie, and precocious niece have decided to accompany her to Colorado for what promises to be an emotionally charged weekend. As Izzy is flooded with memories...
16) Songbird
Author
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Gospel singer Charmaine Hopewell has been searching for her mother since she was 11 years old, abandoned, and thrown into the foster care system. Now she is married to Harlan Hopewell, a beloved televangelist who has risen to popularity due to his disdain for psychology and psychiatry. Charmaine, despite their loving relationship, hides her own depression and search for meaning. Upon finding her mother in a mental institution, Charmaine realizes she...
Author
Series
O'Malley Family Saga volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The death of Chucky's father and the erratic behavior of his sister bring instability into the O'Malley family at the beginning of the 1980s, a time that is complicated when Chucky assists a friend whose wife and daughter have disappeared.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age...
20) Delirio
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Español
Description
Aguilar returns home after a short business trip only to find that his wife, Agustina, has gone crazy. Having no idea what could have happened during his absence, and hoping to help her overcome this crisis, he begins to investigate, what he discovers are deep and disturbing facts hidden in the past of the woman he loves. -- Aguilar regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa, Agustina, se ha enloquecido completamente....