On the anniversary of her daredevil brother's death, Jaycee breals into Jake's favorite hideout, an abandoned insane asylum, where her eccentric friends challenge her to rediscover buried parts of herself.

In the tradition of Brenda Novak and Karen Rose, the latest novel in Lisa Childs' fast-paced romantic suspense series is laden with Gothic atmosphere and brilliantly plotted twists and turns, as an exclusive resort set on a remote island off the coast of Maine becomes the setting for grisly crimes. Drawn to the former Bainesworth Manor in the wake of a murder, reporter Edie Stone wants answers. It's been over forty years since the psychiatric hospital...

A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle. Includes an afterword by Dr. Fredrick Lovejoy of Boston Children's Hospital, including tips on easing a child's hospital stay.

A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...

"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--

"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence."--Provided by publisher.

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

A young girl with appendicitis recounts her strange and scary trip to the hospital, and the nine times she cried--and a few times when she did not.

"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"--publisher.

"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells [a] ... story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--