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1. The locked ward: a novel

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Author:
Pekkanen, Sarah
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Was it... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause-and everyone has a theory-it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when...

2. Ward Locked

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Author:
Kay, Theresa
Series:
Ravencrest Academy volume 3
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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New classes. New director. And lots of new rules. After spending my three-week winter break under magical house arrest, I'm looking forward to returning to school. But when I get there, everything has changed. OSA has tightened its hold on every academy and Ravencrest's new director takes the restrictions a step further, leaving me without my two closest friends. Worse, the boy who left me behind is back on campus with an even bigger surprise in tow...

3. Milk Street backroads Italy: finding Italy's forgotten recipes

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Author:
Kimball, Christopher
Publisher:
Voracious, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Forget everything you thought you knew about Italian food. In Italy, cooks throw away their garlic, they don't stir their polenta, and they never labor over pans of risotto. But they do make enormous meatballs that are tender and light, and they occasionally break all the rules when making pasta. The editors at Milk Street have spent years scouring small eateries, local markets, farms and home kitchens from Lombardy to Calabria and from Sardinia...

4. Creative country decorating

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Publisher:
Ward Lock
Pub. Date:
[1996]
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English
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5. Discount Sacrifice At The Altar Of Bargains

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Author:
Bucko Jr., Bob
Publisher:
Already Dead Tapes
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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6. Ward D

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
Series:
Thorndike Press large print high octane
Language:
English
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Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff...

7. The ten thousand doors of January

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Author:
Harrow, Alix E.
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English
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In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book....

8. Shutter Island

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Author:
Lehane, Dennis
Language:
English
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5 stars
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U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

9. Live to tell: a detective D.D. Warren novel

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Author:
Gardner, Lisa
Series:
Detective D.D. Warren novel
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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Detective D. D. Warren investigates as suspects two violent child survivors of family massacres who are institutionalized in the pediatric psychiatry ward of a Cambridge hospital.

10. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Vintage Classics
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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4.8 stars
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

11. The vanishing act of Esme Lennox

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Author:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
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English
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4 stars
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In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend's attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital--where she has been locked away for more than sixty-one years. Iris's grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme's papers prove she is Kitty's sister,...

12. Northanger Abbey

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Penguin English library
Signature classics
Everyman's library volume 109
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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"When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand and forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she allows the Gothic novels she's obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Determined to...

13. The best minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions

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Author:
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.

14. Nightblind

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Author:
Ragnar Jónasson, 1976-
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English
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"Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors--continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman--shot at point-blank range in the dead of night...

15. The secret garden

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Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Series:
Great classics for children
Treasury of illustrated classics
Hear It Read It Classics
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...

16. She

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Author:
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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English
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H. Rider Haggard's classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen. On the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted...

17. Kidnapped

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Timeless Classics
Rainbow classics
David Balfour volume 1
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

18. Dark blood

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Author:
Feehan, Christine
Series:
Thorndike Press large print romance
Dark volume 26
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"The fates of a warrior reborn and a seductive Dragonseeker are irrevocably entwined in the new Carpathian novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, "the queen of paranormal romance" (J. R. Ward). At long last you are truly back with us... Zev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dark-blood dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on mankind. He was a loner, never given to personal attachments, and damned fierce at his job. But...

19. Kill you twice

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Author:
Cain, Chelsea
Series:
Thorndike Press large print crime scene
Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell volume 5
Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell novels
Language:
English
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Nothing makes Portland detective Archie Sheridan happier than knowing that Gretchen Lowell-the serial killer whose stunning beauty is belied by the gruesome murders she's committed-is locked away in a psych ward. Archie can finally heal from the near-fatal physical and emotional wounds she's inflicted on him and start moving on with his life. To this end, Archie throws himself into the latest case to come across his desk: A cyclist has discovered...

20. The night season

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Author:
Cain, Chelsea
Series:
Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell volume 4
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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With the Beauty Killer Gretchen Lowell locked away behind bars once again, Archie Sheridan-a Portland police detective and nearly one of her victims-can finally rest a little easier. Meanwhile, the rest of the city of Portland is in crisis. Heavy rains have flooded the Willamette River, and several people have drowned in the quickly rising waters. Or at least that's what they thought until the medical examiner discovers that the latest victim didn't...
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