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1) Tick tock
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett joins forces with FBI Agent Emily Parker to root out a terrorist who is threatening New York City with a devastation of the greatest magnitude, and must simultaneously sort out his feelings for Emily and protect his ten adopted children.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine Bks
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Physical Desc
301p
Language
English
Description
A psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City recounts her experiences probing the minds of the murderously insane, including encounters with teenage murderers, schizophrenics, and famous killers such as Ted Bundy
Author
Series
Alex Delaware volume 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't...
4) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Brian Bechtold, who killed his parents in 1992 at the age of twenty-two. Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction-when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on"--
8) Scowler
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The authors examine female serial killers by focusing on the life of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. This book explores mental illness and forensic psychology while also providing a history of how American jurisprudence has grappled with such controversial issues as the insanity defense and mental competency to stand trial.
10) Chaos theory
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...