| Author | : Kathy Hepinstall |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547712073 |
During the Civil War, a plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for seeking justice for slaves. She is sent to a mental asylum and finds love with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
| Author | : Jed L. Babbin |
| Publisher | : Regnery Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2004-05-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780895260888 |
A former Undersecretary of Defense for the first Bush administration strongly advises the United States to withdraw support from the United Nations, arguing that it, with the European Union countries, undermines American interests.
| Author | : Lauren Slater |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2018-02-20 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0316370584 |
The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work -- or don't work -- on what ails our brains. Lauren Slater's revelatory account charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments.
| Author | : Kim Michele Richardson |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1492671533 |
RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. Look for The Book Woman's Daughter, the new novel from Kim Michele Richardson, out now! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Sourcebooks Landmark: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
| Author | : John Harwood |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0544003470 |
After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.
| Author | : Charles Bowden |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1988-04-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780816510818 |
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
| Author | : Kathy Hepinstall |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2001-02-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780380809363 |
In a year of war, sixteen-year-old Charlotte sets off on a mission of love in the backwoods of Louisiana, only to be violated by three soldiers in a lonely section of the forest. Charlotte's young life is destroyed, but another life is growing inside her. Years later, in peacetime, Charlotte comes to House of Gentle Men, a mysterious sanctuary where sad, damaged women are administered to by haunted men wishing to atone for their past crimes. Here, Charolotte falls in love with one of the Gentle Men, a tormented young soldier with a terrible secret of his own. An artistic triumph of the highest order, this debut is a transcendent tale of salvation that celebrates the strength of the heart.
| Author | : Susan Burch |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2021-02-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469663368 |
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history.
| Author | : Rodrigo de Souza Leão |
| Publisher | : And Other Stories |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781908276209 |
An original and comic voice from contemporary Brazil - Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad.
