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Hughes, Linda

Summary: "It's 1921, fifteen years after the disappearance of a child, and three women's lives intertwine as a web of lies unravel in a quest to solve the mystery of what happened to the boy. Elizabeth has been in an asylum since the disappearance of her son. Her daughter, Meg, is determined to find out why and what happened to her brother. And Abby, a Chippewa Indian fortune teller, has insight into...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC HUG

Summary: "We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amberjack Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALL

Thomson, E. S.

Summary: When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Roux, Madeleine

Summary: "Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum. This collection also features bonus...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROU

Connally, Celeste

Summary: "Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling next installment in a captivating Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. 21 June, 1815. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to celebrate after discovering that the death of her viscount fiancé three years earlier was no accident. Instead, it was murder, and the man...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books

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Wright, Jaime Jo

Summary: Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wright 2019

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHI

Parry, Leslie

Summary: "New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Hughes, Linda

Summary: It's 1921, fifteen years after the disappearance of a child, and three women's lives intertwine as a web of lies unravels in a quest to solve the mystery of what happened to the boy. Elizabeth has been in an asylum since the disappearance of her son. Her daughter Meg is determined to find out why and what happened to her brother. And Abby, a Chippewa Indian fortune teller, has insight into...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Deeds Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hughes

Hepinstall, Kathy.

Summary: Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband's slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional "rehabilitation" under the eye of a pompous superintendent.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

Leary, Ann

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEA

Nolan, Alexandria V.

Summary: Celia was mad. She must be if she is committed to this asylum, mustn’t she? It is 1888, and Celia is locked away in the Northern Michigan Asylum. Far away from the life she had known before, with only her own doubts to her sanity, and the kindness of a few new acquaintances to guide her. Does she belong here, shut away from the world? Or is she being hidden for a nefarious purpose? In 2011, Eve...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alexandria Nolan 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOL

Alender, Katie

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015

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Erickson, J. R.

Summary: The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening? On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows. In an abandoned cabin, beneath a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independently published 2018

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Erickson, J. R.

Summary: The sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century. But that hasn’t kept the darkness at bay. Stories about the cursed house trickle out. Violent deaths, strange sightings, and always the chilling sound of a little girl’s song permeates the murky halls. Today, Kerry Manor is restored to its original grandeur. Corrie and Sammy Flynn, and their daughter Isis, move into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independently published 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Erickson, J. R.

Summary: "Orla has a gift, an ability to sense things she touches: memories, traumas ... murders. On a sunny day in 1975, she sets off on a bike ride into the picturesque countryside and vanishes. She is not the first young woman to go missing and she will not be the last. Ashes beneath her is a paranormal murder mystery that will take you into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane. Ashes Beneath...

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

Erickson, J. R.

Summary: "Jake Edwards hasn't thought about the Northern Michigan Asylum in three decades. When Petra, a mysterious woman from his childhood, appears at his business, he suspects a practical joke. Until the woman vanishes, leaving behind a blood-spattered apartment and a trail of secrets that all lead back to the shuttered asylum. As Jake digs into his dark past, he must face the sinister forces who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

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