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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Language
English
Description
Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her sisters. Yet rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
273 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
McLean Hospital is one of the most famous, most elite, and was among the most luxurious mental institutions in America. In its "golden age," McLean provided as gracious and gentle an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. Gracefully Insane chronicles the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy, the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, and the economic pressures that are making McLean, and other institutions...
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
American Psychosis provides an unflinching account of the history and present day failings of our mental health treatment system and calls for the necessity of establishing better psychiatric care for our nation's most vulnerable.
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Lives They Left Behind, contents of several suitcases left behind in the attic of the Willard Psychiatric Center in upstate New York after closing in 1995 were examined and compared to the written record to create a moving group portrait of 20th century American psychiatric care.
Author
Series
Hanger's horsemen volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On a mission to deliver a baby to a nearby foundling home, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks encounter two women who capture their attention. And when a handful of urchin children from the area go missing, a pair of horsemen are exactly what the women need. As they work together to find the children, will these two couples find love as well?"--
Author
Publisher
[s.l.]
Pub. Date
[1906]
Physical Desc
26 p.
Language
English
Description
"Portraying existing conditions at the County Home at Saegertown, in Crawford County, Penn'a, together with illustrations of present buildings and needful, new ones, as well as recommendations for the future conduct of the institution.
