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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses the cascading events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for intelligence employees whose mental state poses a security risk to the government, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover who he is, and why he was placed there.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.
Author
Series
The Penelope Tredwell Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
6) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--Provided by publisher.
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