Darby Penney

Peter Stastny

Lisa Rinzler

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

"By the time of its closing in 1995 after 126 years of operation, Willard Psychiatric Center, overlooking Seneca Lake in upstate New York, had been home to over 54,000 people; some had been released to their former communities after years of institutionalization, but many more had died there. If not for the discovery of more than 400 suitcases filled with patients? belongings in the hospital attic, which led to a 2004 exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany that attracted more than 300,000 visitors and now to this book, their lives would have been lost to history. In The Lives They Left Behind, the contents of 10 of these suitcases are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving?and devastating?group portrait of 20th century American psychiatric care. Far richer and more complex lives than indicated by the hospital records alone emerge from a wide array of personal effects?letters to loved ones, photographs of school chums and foreign travels, knickknacks, religious tracts, a christening gown, professional photographic equipment, a delicate hand-painted bone china teacup and saucer." -- Publisher's website.

The Lives They Left Behind

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Scarlett St. Clair

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden"--

A Touch of Darkness

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Stephen Chbosky

A series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the coming-of-age trials of a high-schooler named Charlie

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Simone St. James

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

The Broken Girls

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