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I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True , a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A... (more)
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The Soloist
A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
by Steve Lopez
A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—destined to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he found it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years earlier, Ayers had been a... (more)
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A Beautiful Mind
The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
"How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously."Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who... (more)
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by Joanne Greenberg, Hannah Green
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. It was a nightmare made real when Deborah's parents discovered their teenage daughter staring at the bloody gashes she made in her own wrists. Deborah was a schizophrenic, doomed to the... (more)
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The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartók
A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.
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And On the Seventh Day Trilogy: Book 2
Veronika Decides to Die
A Novel of Redemption
by Paulo Coelho
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die... (more)
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Inside Out
by Terry Trueman
In a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes wrong. Two gunmen hold seven hostages, including teenager Zach Wahhsted. What nobody realizes at first is that Zach is anything but ordinary and his troubled mind is more dangerous than any weapon. Terry Trueman has created a compelling character with the same shocking power and heartbreaking compassion as his Printz Honor Award debut novel, Stuck in Neutral . Ages 12+
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The Bride Collector
by Ted Dekker
A virtuoso killer is carving a path of death across the west, intent on killing only the most beautiful women. Each time he leaves behind a handwritten note and a bridal veil. Desperate for help, Special Agent Brad Raines turns to the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private home for gifted, mentally ill residents.He's quickly drawn to a young woman named Paradise who struggles with psychosis.... (more)
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The Center Cannot Hold
My Journey Through Madness
by Elyn R. Saks
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she’s an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life. Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first... (more)
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Sybil
The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Seperate Personalities
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The incredible true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of child abuse who was diagnosed with the first multiple personality disorder, reveals that she played host to sixteen separate and distinct personalities before making the long journey to recovery. Reissue.
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The Quiet Room
A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
At seventten Lori Schiller was a perfect child----the only daughter of an affulent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York city dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out i her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more... (more)
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Memories of Summer
by Ruth White
It is the mid-1950s, and Lyrics familys dream is finally coming true -- they are moving from the backwoods of southwest Virginia to Flint, Michigan, where her father hopes to get an assembly-line job for a car manufacturer. Thirteen-year-old Lyric has always been close to and admired her older sister, Summer, who is pretty and popular. But in their new hometown, Summer unexpectedly and drastically changes. She... (more)
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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Cage of Stars
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths, dropping her identity and severing family ties in the process. As she closes in on Early, Veronica... (more)
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A Blue So Dark
by Holly Schindler
Mom looked down at me, her eyes not just glittering but snapping with fire, like two Fourth of July sparklers. "We're just alike, me and Aura." And, you know, back then, the idea of that didn't scare the absolute hell out of me. Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, Grace, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her sole... (more)
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Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
by Laura Flynn
A heartbreaking true story of three small girls who find the imaginative strength to survive their mother's slow spiral into schizophrenia. When Laura Flynn was a little girl her beautiful, dynamic mother was the center of her imagination--Sally Flynn engaged her three girls in rounds of elaborate games and felt great maternal joy at their smallest accomplishments. It wasn't long, however, before Sally's... (more)
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The Eden Express
A Memoir of Insanity
by Mark Vonnegut
"Most diseases can be separated from one’s self ... schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. As a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero, Vonnegut begins to experience increasingly delusional thinking, suicidal thoughts, and physical incapacity. In February 1971 he is committed to... (more)
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Persistence of Memory
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Sixteen-year-old Erin Misrahe just wants to be like everyone else in her new school. But Erin has more to worry about than passing AP Chemistry or making friends. In times of stress, she has always been overcome by her alter ego, Shevaun, whose violent behavior wreaks havoc on those around her. Erin can never remember anything about these episodes, and she’s grateful to have been spared them for a while. But when... (more)
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Therapy
by Sebastian Fitzek
No witnesses, no evidence, no body: Star psychologist Viktor Larenz’s twelve-year-old daughter, Josy, who had suffered from an inexplicable illness, has vanished under mysterious circumstances during a visit to her doctor, and the investigation into her disappearance has brought no results. Four years later, Viktor remains a man shattered by this tragedy. He has retreated to a remote vacation cottage on a North... (more)
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Such a Pretty Face
by Cathy Lamb
In this warm, funny, thoroughly candid novel, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb introduces an unforgettable heroine who's half the woman she used to be, and about to find herself for the first time- Two years and 170 pounds ago, Stevie Barrett was wheeled into an operating room for surgery that most likely saved her life. Since that day, a new Stevie has emerged, one who walks without wheezing, plants a garden for... (more)

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