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1) Breakdown
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski volume 15
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware volume 31
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller featuring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis confirms his status as today's preeminent practitioner of saber-sharp storytelling. Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump's unique presidency with shocking new reporting and insight into its implications. I alone can fix it. So went Donald J. Trump's march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Build stylish and functional furniture from salvaged materials. This innovative guide presents dozens of strategies for upcycling scrap cardboard, metal, plastic, or wood into dependable shelving units, sturdy tables, and fun lamps. With directions for 35 easy and inexpensive projects that include a Cardboard Cantilever Chair, a License Plate Bowl, a Conduit Coatrack, and much more, you'll be inspired to start filling your home with unique high-style...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was active in the civil rights movement. Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to California and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. Jeff Guinn examines Jones's life, from his affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to the jungles...
7) The dilemma
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, NYT and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back"--
8) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent a catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A suspenseful, transporting literary thriller about a British novelist who heads to Venice after a public breakdown, by Christine Mangan, the bestselling author of Tangerine. It's 1966 and Frankie Croy needs a break. Having achieved success with her debut bestseller, she's been trying desperately to live up to the high expectations of her editor and fans, only to fall short with each new book. When she receives a possible career-ending review and...
11) Catfish fishing
Author
Series
Publisher
rosen central
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This great resource includes a breakdown of all indispensable bait and tackle, an explanation of the essential fisherman knots, and a discussion on safety. The reader is also reminded that we share an ecosystem with this unique creature and we owe it to ourselves to take care of their habitats for future generations of fishermen.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sara Keane's husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a "fresh start" in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, careless, friendless-all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible...
14) Wakefield
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a man has a nervous breakdown, he leaves his wife and lives in his attic for several months.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever. Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school drop-out in Kuala Lumpur, wonders why she remembers a city she's never visited....
16) Rabbit hole
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxx, 1013 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown;...
19) Since we fell
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer...
20) The Wild Lands
Author
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the government collapsed, leaving Alaska to fend for itself, Travis's family chose to stay. When the fires burned through their town, Travis's family chose to stay. When the fires came back, turning even the wilderness to ash, Travis's family was trapped.
Natural disasters and a breakdown of society have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and his...