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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The Good Story" is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season, The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Description
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, she knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she and her best friend, Ben Taylor, roamed as children, and where her life's course shifted irrevocably one night long ago. On her journey, Julianna meets Elijah Hunter, a shy teenaged African-American boy,...
Author
Publisher
Guilford Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"Discovering that a partner has been unfaithful hits you like an earthquake. Long after the first jolt, emotional aftershocks can make it hard to be there for your family, manage your daily life, and think clearly about your options. Whether you want to end the relationship or piece things back together, the book guides you through the initial trauma so you can understand what happened and why before deciding how to move forward"--Inside cover.
13) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly). Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and...
14) The wave
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A high school history class project designed to study the rise of Hitler and the Nazis takes on a sinister life of its own.
16) What about Bob?
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
20) Strange bodies
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North"--
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