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Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
Series
Criterion collection ; 777
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
45) A quiet storm
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
For years, Rikki Moore hid emotional breakdowns and obsessive behavior behind the facade of a "perfect" life. Stacey, Rikki's younger sister, was the only on to see the truth.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"When a gynecologist commits suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a patient, his wife deceptively becomes the live-in housekeeper for the woman and, as a bizarre form of revenge, proceeds to make the woman's family her own." --
47) Jane Eyre
Author
Publisher
Modern Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Linda Bishop was a loving mother, a well-educated and happy woman. Then her body was found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse, marked by cold and starvation. What was once Linda Bishop had quickly become a mystery, accompanied by her diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity. For nearly four months, Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rainwater during one of the coldest winters on record. As her...
49) Nature lessons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an émigré living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother-a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction
Set against a backdrop of South Africa's troubled history, natural beauty, and complex contemporary society, Nature Lessons is a riveting story of a forty-year-old woman, Kate Jensen, struggling to come...
52) Lilith
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion." --
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1850s Frankfurt, a Jewish girl named Hannah Meyer is admitted to the town asylum; she hasn't spoken, slept, or eaten in weeks and wagging tongues have resulted in a diagnosis of nymphomania. In an increasingly obsessed effort to cure her, Dr. Hoffmann uses all the methods at his disposal--from ice packs and blood letting to electrodes.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love."--Publisher's description....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The descent into madness of Nancy Brewster at the hands of a manipulative woman who poisons her relations with her children and steals her husband. The events take place in a house by the sea in Massachusetts where Nancy, a society lady from Boston plays host to Isabel March, a visiting poet. By the author of Robert Graves: Life on the Edge.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, and psychological poignancy, A Fairly Good Time, here accompanied by Green Water, Green Sky, encapsulates Gallant's unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Shirley Perrigny (nee Norrington, then briefly Higgins), the heroin of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save his high-strung young widow, Isabel-who somehow ends up in the home of Ireland's friend James Dixey. A celebrated naturalist, Dixey collects strange trophies in his secluded, decaying manse and has questionable associations with rather unsavory characters-including a pair of thuggish poachers named Dewar and...
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